Mr. Gresham to Mr. Wos y Gil.

No. 1.]

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 5th instant, inclosing a memorandum of the circumstances which led to the rupture of diplomatic relations between the Dominican Republic and France.

The question has been made the subject of appropriate instructions to our ambassador at Paris and chargé d’affaires near the Dominican Republic.

Accept, etc.,

W. Q. Gresham
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