No. 11.
Mr. Quesada to Mr. Bayard.
Washington, April 11, 1887. (Received April 12.)
Sir: I have the honor to inform your excellency that I have received instructions from the minister of foreign affairs to communicate to your excellency, begging you to be so good as to lay it before the President, the great satisfaction with which was received the notice of your legation in the Argentine Republic being raised to the rank of a first-class mission 5 since my Government sees in it a proof of sympathy between the two nations, as well as a desire to strengthen the relations which unite them on the basis of reciprocity.
In carrying out these instructions I avail myself, etc.,