Letter

Cramer to Evarts, August 21, 1877

No. 84. Mr. Cramer to Mr. Evarts.

No. 435.]

Sir: Referring to my dispatch No. 432, of the 17th instant, informing you of a rumor in relation to the intended sale, by Sweden to France, of the island of Saint Bartholomew, West Indies, I have now the honor to further inform you that I read a notice in the leading daily journal of this city, of last evening’s date, to the effect that, according to a Stockholm journal, the sale of said island, by Sweden to France, had been effected a short time ago. The terms of the sale have not yet been made public.

I am, &c.,

M. J. CRAMER.
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FRUS u2014 Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the P View original source ↗
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.