Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President, Transmitted to Congress December 2, 1895, Part I

Mr. Risley to Mr. Gresham.

Legation of the United States,
Copenhagen, May 31, 1895. (Received June 14.)

No. 84.]

Sir: I have had the honor to receive this day your No. 75, dated May 18, inclosing a copy of a letter received by you, dated May 16, from Mrs. Josephine D. Peary, stating that she had “chartered the steam whaler Kite, Captain Ash, master, and the expedition (for Greenland) will sail from St. Johns, Newfoundland, about July 1.”

I have, just now, addressed a note to the Danish minister of foreign affairs conveying the above information.

I have, etc.,

John E. Risley

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