No. 489.
Mr. Bayard to Baron von Zedtwitz.

Sir: With reference to your note of the 23d of December last, and Mr. von Alvensleben’s communication of the 30th of January, 1888, relative to the invitation to this Government to take part in the International Art Exhibition to be held at Munich during the present year, [Page 675] I now have the honor to inform you that on the 5th instant the President submitted the invitation in question to Congress for the consideration of that body.

Accept, etc.,

T. F. Bayard.