Captain Inglefield, H. M. S. Majestic, to Laird Brothers.
Gentlemen: With reference to your letter of this date, requesting that I will put in writing the verbal application I made to you this afternoon for assistance in preparing the El Monnassir for removal from your graving dock, I beg now to renew the application, and request that you will give me such assistance by the loan of an anchor and cable, being essential to enable me to moor that vessel in safety in the Sloyne.
I have further to add, that such anchor and cable will be accepted as a personal loan. And I undertake that it shall not be considered as a part of the seizure of the aforesaid iron-clad vessel El Monnassir.
I am, gentlemen, your obedient servant,
Messrs. Laird, Birkenhead.