Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the President, December 5, 1892

Mr. Foster to Mr. Coolidge.

Department of State,
Washington, August 18, 1892.

No. 65.]

Sir: I inclose for your information and files, having regard to the Department’s instruction No. 2, of June 4, 1892, in relation to the protectorate announced by France over Liberian territory, a copy of a dispatch from your colleague at London, No. 735, of the 5th instant, reporting the substance of interviews between Mr. Lincoln, Lord Salisbury, and the Liberian minister in London upon that subject.^†

I have instructed Mr. Lincoln to forward to you a copy of the Parliamentary paper, Africa No. 7, 1892, and of the map showing the British possessions of West Africa (London: Edward Stanford, 26 and 27 Cockspur street, Charing Cross, S. W.), which accompanied his dispatch.

I am, etc.,

John W. Foster.

1. It is understood that in December this year a treaty respecting boundary was celebrated between France and Liberia.