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, June 2, 1896.

My Lord: I have the honor to acknowledge your lordship’s note of the 30th ultimo, which was received by me this morning, accompanied by a memorandum, prepared by Her Majesty’s attorney-general, on the subject of the continued and additional compilation for publication of historical records and documentary proofs in relation to the title to the territory in dispute between British Guiana and the Republic of Venezuela.

I have promptly transmitted copies of your lordship’s reply and of the memorandum of Her Majesty’s attorney-general to the Secretary of State of the United States, to be communicated to the Commission now investigating the subject at Washington.

And I take occasion to make to your lordship expression of the high appreciation and gratification which I am sure will be felt by my Government for the frank, friendly, and prompt assistance already given and promised in the transmission, in the near future, of the additional publication now in the course of preparation by Her Majesty’s Government.

Of the tenor of these friendly intentions of assistance to him in his researches in the Dutch archives I have already and confidentially apprised Prof. George L. Burr, at The Hague.

I have, etc.,

T. F. Bayard.