Note 126 — CHINESE INDEMNITY FUND.

Mr. Burlingame to Mr. Seward, May 19, 1862: Diplomatic Correspondence, 1862-3, p. 844.—This disposition of the surplus appears to have been first suggested as early as November, 1860, in an informal communication to Mr. Cass from Mr. S. Wells Williams, the accomplished Chinese scholar, and interpreter to the U. S. Legation in China. The outlines of the plan there mentioned were afterwards more fully developed in Mr. Burlingame’s dispatches.