Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the President, December 6, 1880

No. 170.
Mr. Seward to Mr. Evarts.

Legation of the United States,
Peking, May 31, 1880. (Received July 13.)

No. 698.]

Sir: Referring to my dispatches, Nos. 650, 653, and 661, in which I informed you that the diplomatic body had requested me to speak with the ministers of the foreign office in regard to the mixed court at Shanghai, and more particularly to the dispatch last named, in which a minute of the interview was forwarded, I have now the honor to hand you herewith a copy of a letter which I have received from Sir Thomas Wade, doyen of the diplomatic body, in reference to the action taken by me.

I have, &c.,

GEORGE F. SEWARD.

[Inclosure in No. 698.]

Sir Thomas Wade to Mr. Seward.

Peking, April 22, 1880.

Dear Sir and Colleague: I do myself the pleasure to acknowledge receipt of your letter of the 15th instant. I have since received also copy of the memorandum to which it refers of your conference with the ministers of the Tsung-li Yamên regarding the mixed court at Shanghai.

Both papers having already been brought to the knowledge of our colleagues by yourself, there remains for me, as doyen, the acceptable duty of repeating to you, on behalf of my colleagues and myself, the assurance of our appreciation of the care and industry you have bestowed upon the execution of the task which at our joint request you undertook.

Believe me, &c.,

T. WADE

.

The Hon. G. F. Seward, &c., &c., &c., United States Legation.