Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the President, December 4, 1883

No. 315.
Mr. Davis to Mr. Schuyler.

Department of State,
Washington, January 22, 1883.

No. 17.]

Sir: Referring to a previous instruction, No. 15, of the 5th instant. I herewith inclose a copy of a dispatch (No. 158, of the 25th ultimo),^† from Mr. Wallace, our minister at Constantinople, in which he details the manner in which he was enabled to gain the release of eleven Greeks who were imprisoned for political offenses at Constantinople. Mr. Wallace also incloses a letter from Athens thanking him for his successful efforts in behalf of the prisoners.

I am, &c.,

JOHN DAVIS,
Acting Secretary.

1. See Mr. Wallace to Mr. Frelinghuysen, No. 158, December 25, 1882, post.