No. 1103.
Mr. Bayard to Mr. Straus.

No. 159.]

Sir: I have much satisfaction in acknowledging Mr. King’s dispatch, No. 133, of the 3d instant, reporting that His Imperial Majesty the Sultan had decided to grant an iradeh to the representatives of the University of Pennsylvania permitting archaeological explorations in Assyria and Babylonia.

I am, etc.,

T. F. Bayard.