Aurelio Garcia Y Garcia to De Long, June 15, 1873

Mr. Garcia to Mr. De Long.

Sir: In accordance with the conversation I had lately with your excellency, I have the honor to inclose herewith a dispatch which I addressed on this date to his excellency Frederick F. Low, minister of the United States in China, relating to my approaching journey to Peking. Please also find inclosed copy of that dispatch.

I beg your excellency to forward my communication to Mr. Low, with a note from yourself in support of the request which it contains. It will be one more service on your part which my government will highly appreciate, and for which I offer your excellency my acknowledgments.

As I request Mr. Low to send his answer to the consulate of the United States at Shanghai, I hope that he may send your excellency a copy of it, in order that I may lose no time in learning its contents in case I should be still in Japan when it arrives.

At the same time, and in connection with the above, permit me to further trouble you, begging you to request the consul of the United States at Tien-Tsin to be so good as to have the inclosed letter from his excellency M. de Bellounet, French minister at Lima, safely delivered to his excellency Echong Hiou, member of the foreign office and superintendent of the northern ports at Tien-Tsin.

I am happy to assure your excellency once more of my highest regard and most distinguished consideration.