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Ambassador Meyer to the Secretary of State.

American Embassy,
St. Petersburg, June 29, 1905.
No. 93.]

Sir: I beg leave to report that on June 25 I received a communication from Count Lamsdorff, dated the 24th, acknowledging the receipt of my memorandum of the same date and stating that he had forwarded it to the Emperor. He also stated that the Emperor had just authorized him to inform me confidentially, same to be communicated to the President, that the Tsar proposes appointing as the first Russian [Page 814] plenipotentiary for the coming negotiations at Washington Mr. Nelidoff, Russian ambassador at Paris.

All of this I embodied in a cablegram dated June 25, which I now confirm.

I have, etc.,

G. v. L. Meyer.