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

Lord Gough to Mr. Olney.

British Embassy,
Newport, R. I., August 29, 1895.

Sir: I have the honor to inform you that Her Majesty’s ambassador is returning to his post in the course of next month, and that Sir Mackenzie Bowell is prepared to come to Washington in October next to take part in discussion of the Bering Sea questions. I have accordingly been instructed by Her Majesty’s secretary of state for foreign affairs to ask you if it will be convenient to the Government of the United States that negotiations should be resumed in October next.

I have, etc.,

Gough

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