Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the President, December 6, 1880

No. 220.
Mr. Hunter to Mr. Cramer.

Department of State,
Washington, September 1, 1879.

No. 303.]

Sir: I have to acknowledge the receipt of your dispatch, No. 547, of the 11th ultimo, in response to an instruction No. 297 from this Department, relative to the rumor then current at St. Thomas of pending negotiations between Denmark and, presumably, Great Britain, for the transfer to this latter government of that island, and in which you deny, upon the authority of the Danish minister for foreign affairs, the truth of the report of such negotiations with any government looking to that end.

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In reply I have to express the satisfaction with which this government receives the information contained in your dispatch, for it could not look with indifference upon the transfer of the island of St. Thomas to any European power.

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I am, &c.,

W. HUNTER,
Acting Secretary.