Charles R. Lowell to Walker Blaine, April 13, 1881

No. 321. Mr. Lowell to Mr. Blaine.

Sir: Referring to your instruction No. 130, of the 17th ultimo, in relation to the report made by Mr. Crump, acting British consul in Philadelphia, concerning swine disease in the United States, and to my dispatch No. 161, of the 9th instant, I have now the honor to inclose herewith a copy of a note just received from Lord Granville, in reply to mine of the 1st instant. It will be seen from Lord Granville’s note that the British Government, while expressing a readiness to receive any trustworthy evidence of the non-existence of hog disease in pork exported from the United States, consider the statements of Mr. Crump to have been justified. Lord Granville incloses a copy of a memorandum furnished to the British minister at Washington by Mr. Warrack, the British vice-consul at Chicago, showing the official sources from which he derived the statistical information which he supplied to Mr. Grump. I inclose also a copy of this memorandum.

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