Baron Saurma to Mr. Gresham.

Mr. Secretary of State: I have had the honor to receive your excellency’s note of the 7th instant, and the accompanying message of the President of the United States to the Congress, and your excellency’s accompanying report, for which I have to express my best thanks, and to inform you that I will transmit them to the Imperial Government.

Please accept, etc.,

Saurma.