Letter

De Geofeoy to the yamên, May 20, 1873

Author

De Geofeoy

Recipient

the yamên

Date

May 20, 1873

Type

Letter

Language

English

[Inclosure No. 2.]

Foreign ministers to the yamên.

Peking, May 20, 1873.

The undersigned, ministers of Russia, the United States of America, Great Britain, and France, have perused a paper communicated to them by their excellencies the ministers of the tsung li yamên on the 19th instant, as a summary of the protocol signed upon the 15th instant.

Looking to the possible insertion of this document in a memorial to be laid before the Emperor, it is the duty of the undersigned to state to Prince Kung that it does not, in their opinion, reproduce with sufficient fidelity the substance of the protocol, and that it is the latter paper alone that they recognize as faithfully expressing what has passed on either side in the conferences on the audience question.

The undersigned request his imperial highness to cause this their declaration to be appended to any report on the subject that shall be presented to His Majesty.

The undersigned renew, &c., &c.

VLANGALY.
LOW.
WADE.
DE GEOFEOY.

Topics

19th Century Diplomacy Reconstruction

Sources

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.