Letter

Avery to His Imperial Highness Prince Kung, November 27, 1874

[Inclosure 4 in No. 11.]

Mr. Avery to Prince Kung.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge your highness’s dispatch of the 24th instant,, in relation to the day appointed for an audience, and furnishing me with a copy of the decree issued respecting it.

I have made myself fully acquainted with its purport, and now beg to return your highness this reply.

I avail myself of this reply to renew the assurance of my respect, and that I am your highness obedient servant,

BENJ. P. AVERY.

His Imperial Highness Prince Kung, &c., &c.

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U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the P.