Letter

Noyes to Evarts, September 3, 1879

Author

Noyes

Recipient

Evarts

Date

September 3, 1879

Type

Letter

Language

English

No. 161. Mr. Noyes to Mr. Evarts.

Legation of the United States, Paris, September 3, 1879. (Received September 17.)

No. 263.]

Sir: On receipt of your instruction No. 132, of date February 18, 1879, I immediately addressed a note to Mr. Waddington, informing him of the important inquiry with which the commission, of which Mr. Charles Francis Adams, jr., is chairman, was occupied in regard to the methods of taxation as respects railroad securities, and requesting information in answer to the seven questions set forth in your instruction.

I have this morning received a reply from Mr. Waddington transmitting three notes which have been prepared by the various departments to which the subjects treated belong, and which are believed to answer the questions propounded by the commission.

I have the honor to inclose these documents with a copy and translation of Mr. Waddington’s letter.

I have, &c.,

EDWARD F. NOYES.

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.