Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress with the Annual Message of the President, December 2, 1872, Part II, Volume II

No. 60.
Earl Granville to Sir E. Thornton.

Foreign Office, May 25, 1872—3 p.m.

[From British Blue Book “North America,” No. 9, (1872,) p. 23.]

Sir: I have given to the United States Legation a copy of the inclosed draft of preamble to a Treaty, in which the Article now before the Senate would be contained, supposing that the Article should come out from the Senate in a form which Her Majesty’s Government could accept.

You may give it confidentially to Mr. Fish, explaining to him that the preamble has been framed with reference to that contingency alone, and in order to save time in the two Governments coming to an agreement on the terms of preamble if this contingency should be realized.

I am, &c.,

GRANVILLE.