Letter
Prince Kung to Avery, November 21, 1874
[Inclosure 2 in No. 11.]
Prince Kung to Mr. Avery.
Tungchi, 13th year, 10th moon, 13th day, (November 21, 1874.)
Prince Kung, chief secretary of state for foreign affairs, herewith sends a communication.
On receiving your excellency’s dispatch, informing me that you had been intrusted with a letter which you wished to deliver in person, and requesting me to ask, on your behalf, that a day might be fixed for that purpose, I have the honor to reply that the foreign office presented a memorial to-day upon this matter, and have now received the following rescript in the vermilion pencil:
“Wait for a decree stating the details. Respect this.”
As is proper, I have had the above copied out carefully, and now send it for your excellency’s information.
His Excellency Benjamin P. Avery, United States Minister to China.
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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.