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

No. 90.
Mr. Borges to Mr. Evarts.

Legation of Brazil,
Washington, May 20, 1880.

Mr. Secretary of State: The imperial government has instructed me to convey its thanks to your excellency for your kind compliance with its request relative to the moral support of the United States for the mission sent by His Majesty the Emperor to the Chinese Empire, and also for the promise made by your excellency in your note of the 30th of January last, that the representative of the United States in China should be instructed accordingly.

I take great pleasure in obeying the instructions of my government and in reiterating to your excellency the expressions of my highest consideration.

A. P. de CARVALHO BORGES.

To His Excellency William M. Evarts,
Secretary of State of the United States, &c., &c., &c.