Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the President, December 1, 1884

No. 406.
Mr. Thomas to Mr. Frelinghuysen.

Legation of the United States,
Stockholm, May 3, 1884. (Received May 21.)

No. 65.]

Sir: Referring to my dispatch No. 29 on the subject of direct steam communication between the United States and Sweden, I have the honor to inform you that the Leipzig, the pioneer steamer of the first direct steamship line between the two countries, sailed from Gothenburg, Sweden, direct for New York, at 2 o’clock on the afternoon of May 1, having on board 228 emigrants, and 220 tons cargo.

I have, &c.,

W. W. THOMAS, Jr.