Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the President, December 3, 1888, Part I

No. 301.
Mr. Bayard to Mr. Dinsmore.

Department of State,
Washington, March 20, 1888.

No. 66.]

Sir: I transmit for your information a copy^* of a dispatch from the United States minister at Peking, No. 551, of January 21, 1888, covering a translation of a letter from the King of Corea to the Viceroy Li Hung Chang, which appeared in the Shih pao, a Chinese paper, published at Tientsin, January 13 last. This letter refers to the diplomatic representatives lately sent abroad by Corea and the vassalage of Corea to China.

I am, etc.,

T. F. Bayard.

1. For inclosure see Doc. No. 168, ante, p. 248.