Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the President, December 4, 1876

No. 133.
Mr. Hoffman to Mr. Fish.

[Telegram.]

London, May 26, 1876. (Received May 26.)

Lord Derby refers to your eight-sixty-four as regards treaties with certain foreign powers; also to article three of draft treaty lately discussed, to which article he says you gave your assent, and requests me to ask by telegraph if my Government, to meet present difficulty, will add this article to treaty of forty-two. In this case Sir Edward Thornton will be instructed to sign it at once.

HOFFMAN.