Chester Holcombe to Evarts, June 24, 1878

No. 88. Mr. Holcombe to Mr. Evarts.

Sir: Referring to Mr. Seward’s dispatch, No. 43, of March 6, last, informing you that he had prepared a memorandum upon Chinese currency, and had requested the vice-consul-general to transmit six copies of it to the Department, and in which he stated that the German minister was also preparing a paper upon the same topic, I now have the honor to hand to you two copies of M. von Brandt’s memorandum. For your convenience in comparison, I also attach another copy of Mr. Seward’s paper.

And I also beg leave to call your attention to the inclosed letter of the Shanghai Chamber of Commerce, in which they express their high appreciation of the ability with which our minister has treated the subject under consideration.

I have, &c.,