Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, For the Year 1887, Transmitted to Congress, With a Message of the President, June 26, 1888

No. 327.
Sir L. S. Sackville West to Mr. Bayard .

Washington , December 24, 1886. (Received December 27.)

Sir: With reference to your note^* of the 11th ultimo, I have the honor to inform you that I am requested by the Earl of Iddesleigh to acquaint you that Her Majesty’s Government have desired the Canadian Government to furnish them with a report on the circumstances attending the alleged inhospitable treatment of United States fishing schooners Laura Say ward and Jennie Seavers by the Canadian authorities.

I have, etc.,

L. S. Sackville West.

1. Printed, p. 425 Foreign Relations, 1886.