Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the President, December 5, 1881

No. 167.
Mr. Blaine to Mr. Angell.

Department of State,
Washington, July 11, 1881.

No. 112.]

Sir: Your dispatches numbered 157, 158, 159, 160, 161, 162, 163, 164, and 165 have been received. In approving your action, respecting the death of the Empress Dowager, which you report in your No. 150 of April 30 last, I have to state that upon the recent announcement of her death, through the Chinese ministers at this capital, the Department, also, took occasion to convey an expression of the sympathy of the Government and people of the United States for the loss which her death has occasioned to His Majesty and to the Chinese Empire.

I am, sir, &c.,

JAMES G. BLAINE.