Yang-Yü, Chinese Minister
And a little later a second letter came from the same source:
Imperial Chinese Embassy
St. Petersburg, September 10 (23), 1900
My dear Baron:
Sincere thanks for your kind letter, as well as for the newspaper clippings, which have greatly interested me.
I hasten to send you and the Baroness my best wishes for a good journey and a happy sojourn in Paris. I likewise hope that you will have a brilliant success in the noble assembly of the ninth Peace Congress. Once again you are going to spread the light and to plead for that peace cause which ought to be dear to every human heart. Therefore I should be greatly delighted to learn that all your endeavors toward this end have fully succeeded.
Yours with most sincere esteem
Yang-Yü, Chinese Minister
In the late summer we went to Paris to attend the Peace Congress that was to be held there, and to see the Exposition.