Pao-yun to Benj. P. Avery, November 24, 1874
Letter from the Yamen to Mr. Avery.
We beg to present our compliments.
In an official dispatch, which has already been sent to your excellency, in relation to the audience, it was stated that we have to-day been honored with a decree appointing it for the 21st day of this moon, (November 29,) and that it would be given in the Tsj-kwang-Koh. We have now further to request you to come to the foreign office on the 26th instant, at 2 o’clock p.m., to rehearse the ceremony, and we shall be there in waiting to receive you.
We also further request that you will send us a note beforehand containing a copy of the address you propose to make on the occasion, and to excuse the trouble now given you.
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His Excellency Benj. P. Avery, &c., &c.