Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, with the Annual Message of the President, December 6, 1875, Volume I

No. 229.
Mr. Fish to Mr. Bartholdi.

Department of State,
Washington, January 6, 1875.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 4th instant. It states that you had been directed to request the good offices of this Government toward obtaining from that of Mexico a delay in the departure from that country of French Sisters of Charity, who had been ordered to embark on the 31st instant.

In reply I have to acquaint you that by this day’s post Mr. Foster, the minister of the United States at Mexico, has been instructed to make application to the Mexican government accordingly.

Accept, &c.,

HAMILTON FISH.