Mr. Thompson to Mr. Gresham.

No. 76.]

Sir: I have the honor to inform you that I am in receipt of a communication from his excellency the minister for foreign affairs, inclosing a note from his excellency the minister of public instruction, in reply to my note to him, which was transmitted to you in my No. 30 of February 14, 1893, in relation to censorship and mutilations of religious publications of the American missionaries in Turkey. The articles which were stricken out by the censors as objectionable have all been restored, and the time occupied in such examination has been satisfactorily arranged. So I am informed by Mr. H. O. Dwight, the secretary of the publication committee, who expresses himself as entirely satisfied with the present order of his excellency the minister of public instruction. This vexed question may be regarded as at rest, at least for the present.

I have, etc.,

D. P. Thompson.