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

No. 698.
Mr. Blaine to Mr. Fish.

Department of State,
Washington, May 26, 1881.

No. 213.]

Sir: I have to acknowledge the receipt of your No. 397, and to express my satisfaction respecting your course in the case of Eberhard, whose emigration to the United States would evidently have proved undesirable.

The communication of the facts mentioned in your No. 400, in the case of the Oliver family, to the collector of customs at New York is approved.

A copy of your No. 403 will be sent to the State board of charities, New York, as you suggest.

I am, &c.,

JAMES G. BLAINE.