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

No. 37.
Mr. Lothrop to Mr. Bayard .

Legation of the United States,
St. Petersburg , March 12, 1888. (Received April 2.)

No. 164

Sir: Immediately upon the receipt of your dispatch, No. 110, I communicated to Mr. de Giers the suggestions therein contained. In reply he now informs me that the imperial Government, acting thereon, has instructed Mr. de Staal, its ambassador in London, at once to put himself into communication with Mr. Phelps, and to do his best to promote the common object of the two Governments. I am also requested to make this action known to you.

Very truly, etc.,

Geo. V. N. Lothrop.