Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 7, 1896, and the Annual Report of the Secretary of State

Mr. Bayard to Lord Salisbury.

Embassy of the United States,
London, May 16, 1896.

My Lord: On Wednesday next I propose, with your lordship’s permission, to pay my respects to you at the foreign office, and will then bring with me, for your lordship’s information, an instruction this day received by me from the Secretary of State of the United States, accompanied by a copy of a communication to him from the commission appointed to investigate and report upon the true divisional line between British Guiana and the Republic of Venezuela, the object of which, as explained therein, is to obtain references to certain authoritative documents bearing upon the statements of the Blue Book laid before Parliament in March last (Venezuela No. 1, 1896), and which will facilitate the duties with which the commission has been charged, in relation to which I had the honor to address your lordship on the 3d of February last and to receive a courteous and favorable reply, for which I duly returned expressions of the gratification felt thereupon by my Government.

I have, etc.,

T. F. Bayard.