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

No. 446.
Mr. Heap to Mr. Frelinghuysen.

[Extract.]

Legation of the United States,
Constantinople, September 12, 1884. (Received Sept. 29.)

No. 430.]

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your dispatch of the 19th of August last, No. 220, relative to the protection of American citizens in Asia Minor, the sale of books, and the acknowledgment of the active part the Earl of Dufferin has taken in giving protection, through British consuls, in that portion of the empire, to our countrymen in need of it.

I met Lord Dufferin last evening and conveyed to him the expression of your gratification to learn of his courteous offer in reference to the protection of Americans in Armenia. I regret that we shall lose by his appointment as viceroy of India, one upon whose sympathy we could always rely in case of necessity. * * *

I am, &c.,

G. H. HEAP.