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

No. 206.
Mr. Blaine to Mr. Maney.

Department of State,
Washington, July 25, 1881.

No. 3.]

Sir: I forward herewith, for your information, a copy of my instruction^* to Mr. James R. Lowell, United States minister at London, of the 24th ultimo, relative to an interoceanic canal across the Isthmus of Panama.

A similar instruction was also addressed to the representatives of this government accredited to the seveal European Governments.

I am, &c.,

JAMES G. BLAINE.

1. For inclosure see under Great Britain.