Office of the Historian

Sir Julian Pauncefote to Mr. Wharton.

British Legation,
Newport, August 24, 1891.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 22d instant, in which you ask me to inform you when you may expect an answer to your note of the 23d ultimo, relative to the proposed agreement of arbitration of certain matters affecting the seal fisheries in Behring Sea.

I very much regret that I have not yet been in a position to reply to the note in question, but I hope to be able to do so in the course of the next few days.

I have, etc.,

Julian Pauncefote.