Letter

John Meredith Read to Hamilton Fish, August 15, 1870

No. 106.

Mr. Read to Mr. Fish.

[By cable telegram.]

Paper depreciating daily, also difference between silver and gold; average daily receipts thirteen hundred francs. Very little gold in circulation. What am I to do?

READ.
Notes
1. CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE AND THE UNITED STATES CONSULATE GENERAL AT PARIS.
Sources
FRUS u2014 Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress with the Annual Message of the Pr 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 Pr.