Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the President, December 3, 1888, Part I

No. 215.
Mr. Bayard to Mr. Denby.

Department of State,
Washington, June 15, 1888.

No. 329.]

Sir: I desire to acknowledge the receipt of your No. 639 of the 5th of May last, and to express the Department’s satisfaction that the intricate question relating to the etiquette to be observed between the Chinese foreign office and the diplomatic body at Peking on New Year’s Day has at last been disposed of.

I am, sir, etc.,

T. F. Bayard.