Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, For the Year 1887, Transmitted to Congress, With a Message of the President, June 26, 1888

No. 490.
Mr. Connery to Mr. Bayard.

Legation of the United States,
Mexico, October 20, 1887. (Received October 29.)

No. 253.]

Sir: I have the honor to refer you to my No. 250, concerning the relations of Guatemala and Mexico, dated October 18, 1887, and to report that I have just received another note from Mr. Mariscal, copy of which I inclose, in which he expresses his high appreciation of your faith in the frankness and sincerity of Mexico’s expressions respecting the neighboring republic of Guatemala.

I am, etc.,

Thomas B. Connery.

[Inclosure in No. 253.—Translation.]

Mr. Mariscal to Mr. Connery.

Department of Foreign Relations,
Mexico, October 19, 1887.

Mr. Chargé d’affaires: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note, dated yesterday, in which you are pleased to inform me that the honorable Secretary of State of the United States has read with satisfaction the report that you sent to him respecting our last conversation about the relations between Mexico and Guatemala.

In reply, it is pleasing to me to inform you that I appreciate fully the fact that the honorable Mr. Bayard does justice to the frankness and sincerity with which Mexico expresses her sentiments in no way hostile toward Guatemala.

I protest to you, etc.,

Igno. Mariscal.