Mr. Adee to Mr. Terrell.
Washington, October 10, 1893.
Sir: I have received your No. 61 of 19th ultimo and the copy which you inclose of a letter from our consul at Sivas to our consul-general at Constantinople, setting forth the unfriendly attitude and acts of the vali of Sivas, in which province Marsovan is situate, toward Americans there residing.
The continuance and development of good will at Marsovan will largely depend, as you point out, on the discretion and tact of the American officers of the college, but their efforts to commend their enterprise as law-abiding and beneficial to the community should not be neutralized by malevolent misrepresentations and treatment such as is attributed, apparently of actual knowledge, to the vali of Sivas.
I am, etc.,
Acting Secretary.