Office of the Historian

No. 584.
Mr. Edwardes to Mr. Bayard.

Washington, June 9, 1888. (Received June 11.)

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of yesterday’s date, in which you are so good as to inform me that, in accordance with the request which, in obedience to my instruction, I made to you, you have telegraphed to the United States consular agent at St. Pierre to abstain from any action as that referred to in the matter of the purchase in Newfoundland waters, without license, by United States fishing vessels of bait and its subsequent sale to French fishermen.

In offering to you my thanks for this communication, which I have lost no time in forwarding to the Marquis of Salisbury,

I have, etc.,

H. G. Edwardes.