Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the President, December 3, 1877

No. 84.
Mr. Cramer to Mr. Evarts.

Legation of the United States,
Copenhagen, August 21, 1877. (Received September 10.)

No. 435.]

Sir: Referring to my dispatch No. 432, of the 17th instant, informing you of a rumor in relation to the intended sale, by Sweden to France, of the island of Saint Bartholomew, West Indies, I have now the honor to further inform you that I read a notice in the leading daily journal of this city, of last evening’s date, to the effect that, according to a Stockholm journal, the sale of said island, by Sweden to France, had been effected a short time ago. The terms of the sale have not yet been made public.

I am, &c.,

M. J. CRAMER.