HR5453
Copp
Nor Mulliken
Copy
The Hon.
Gentlemen
Paris, July 8, 1883
In reply to your request that I put in writing, for the information of the stockholders of the Corporation you represent, the substance of what I have frequently stated verbally, as to the position which our Company occupies with the Chinese Government, I beg leave to state that while Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary of the U.S. to China, I had frequent interviews with the Representatives of the Chinese Government at Tientsin, with regard to a concession to construct Telegraphic Lines throughout the Chinese Empire. To "Land Lines" they strenuously objected on the grounds of their inability to protect them, &c., &c.; but to the privilege of constructing a cable line they...
Andrew F. Custin
James Milliken