Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the President, December 6, 1886

No. 227.
Sir L. West to Mr. Bayard.

Washington, October 21, 1886. [Received October 22.]

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your notes of the 19th and 20th instant, requesting me to draw the attention of Her Majesty’s Government to the proceedings of the Canadian authorities in the cases of the United States fishing vessels Everett Steele and Pearl Nelson, and to inform you that I have lost no time in communicating copies of those documents to the Earl of Iddesleigh.

I have, &c.,

L. S. SACKVILLE WEST.