Office of the Historian

No. 364.
Mr. Hoppin to Mr. Evarts.

Legation of the United States,
London, November 22, 1879. (Received December 4.)
No. 111.]

Sir: Your telegram requesting me to ask the Marquis of Salisbury when to expect an answer in relation to the Fortune Bay claims was brought to this office at a late hour on Thursday evening. Early the next day, the 21st instant, I addressed a note to his lordship, a copy of which I inclose herewith.

I have not yet had a reply, and shall probably be obliged to close this dispatch before one arrives. Whenever it comes I shall immediately send you the substance of it by telegraph, agreeably to your instructions.

I have, &c.,

W. J. HOPPIN.
[Inclosure in No. 111.]

Mr. Hoppin to the Marquis of Salisbury.

Legation of the United States,
London, November 21, 1879.
Immediate.]

My Lord: I received last night a cable dispatch from Mr. Evarts, requesting me to ask your lordship when he might expect an answer to Mr. Welsh’s notes of the 13th of August last, in relation to the damages sustained by citizens of the United States in Fortune Bay in January, 1878.

As I am instructed to reply by telegraph I venture to solicit your lordship to give an early answer to Mr. Evarts’s inquiry.

I have, &c.,

W. J. HOPPIN.