Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the President, December 5, 1881

No. 138.
Messrs. Swift and Trescot to Mr. Evarts .

United States Commission to China,
Shanghai , November 29, 1880.

Sir: By the last dispatches and telegrams from the commission, you were informed that two treaties had been signed, and that Messrs. Swift and Trescot would leave for Shanghai on the 20th, and that Mr. Trescot would bring over the treaties by the first Pacific steamer that he could reach from this point.

We left Peking on the 20th and reached Shanghai on the 27th. The steamer connecting with the Pacific line at Yokohama leaving on the 30th, Mr. Trescot will go in her to take the City of Peking at that port on the 8th December.

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We have, &c.,

• JOHN L. SWIFT.
• WM. HENRY TRESCOT.