Carlos Martin to Frederick F. Low, July 17, 1873

American missionaries to Mr. Low.

Sir: The American missionaries resident in Peking desire to express to you on your departure from this city their sense of the ability, discretion, and firmness which has characterized the discharge of your official duties, and they congratulate you, as well on the happy adjustment of many difficult questions in regard to the work of missions, as also on the success which has attended the efforts to secure an audience with the Emperor of China without disturbing the peaceful relations now existing between this and other countries. In all these concessions we believe China to have been not less the gainer than those nations by which the concessions were urged. The mutual benefit of these transactions will be more apparent in the time to come.

In your departure from Peking you carry with you not only our high esteem, but the regards of personal friendship, and our best wishes for your future welfare.

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