Kasson to Evarts, December 18, 1879

No. 29. Mr. Kasson to Mr. Evarts.

Sir: When Civil Engineer J. B. Eads, of the Mississippi River Commission, appointed under authority of Congress, was recently in Vienna, he desired the intervention of this legation to obtain certain information touching the river improvements of this empire.

In partial response to that request, I now transmit to the Department, by way of the United States consul at Hamburg, a package embracing certain printed documents in the German language, relating to this improvement, together with a map of the river Danube, showing the nature of the improvements, as I received them from the foreign office. Accompanying this dispatch is a translation of the note from the foreign office, which was brought to this legation with the documents. The address of the package is to the president of the Mississippi River Commission—wherever the office of the commission maybe—and is forwarded under cover to the Department of State.

I have, &c.,