Letter
Sewaed to Wm. M. Evarts, July 28, 1880
No. 176. Mr. Seward to Mr. Evarts.
Legation of the United States, Peking, July 28, 1880. (Received September 15.)
No. 739.]
Sir: Recurring to my dispatch No. 665, in which I informed you that the diplomatic body had confided to the German minister the negotiation on its behalf with the foreign office of the reforms needed in the export trade, and to my dispatch No. 695, covering a report of an interview had by Mr. von Brandt with the Chinese ministers upon this subject, I have now the honor to hand to you herewith a copy of a letter which I have received from him, giving the results of a second interview in the same matter.
You will notice that the ministers declared their inability to enter upon a further discussion at present.
I have, &c.,
GEOEGE F. SEWAED.
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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.