Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President, Transmitted to Congress, December 4, 1893

Mr. Gresham to Señor Peralta.

Department of State,
Washington, December 2, 1893.

Sir: In compliance with your oral request, I have the honor to inclose herewith copy of the Department’s instruction^* to the U. S. minister to Costa Rica expressing the hope of this Government that the question of boundary between Costa Rica and Colombia will be brought to an amicable adjustment.

I send you this with the statement that the Department is without information as to the manner in which Mr. Baker presented the subject to the Costa Rican Government, whether by giving copy direct or embodying its substance in a note to the minister for foreign affairs.

Accept, etc.,

W. Q. Gresham.

1. For this inclosure see instructions No. 28 of July 14, 1893, to Mr. Baker, under Central America.