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

No. 88.
Mr. Evarts to Mr. Torreão de Barros.

Department of State,
Washington, January 30, 1880.

Sir: It is with much pleasure that I inform you hereby, with reference to your recent announcement of the intention of the Emperor to send an embassy to China to enter into certain treaties of amity and commerce with the government of that country, that the President sincerely sympathizes with the desire of the Emperor to extend and confirm his friendly relations with that government, and will give orders that the representative of the United States in China shall extend to the Brazilian representative in that country the friendly welcome and the moral support which is naturally to be expected from the intimate relations so happily existing between the United States and Brazil.

I profit by this occasion, &c.,

WM. M. EVARTS.

Mr. B. E. Torreão de Barros, &c., &c., &c.