Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President, Transmitted to Congress, December 4, 1893

Prince Cantacuzène to Mr. Adee.

Legation of Russia,
Washington , February 20, 1893 . (Received February 21.)

Dear Sir: In reply to your note of February 16, concerning the refusal of our consul-general in New York to visé the passport of Mrs. (not Miss) Mannie Lerin, a naturalized citizen of the United States, I beg to say that it appears from the information I just received from our consul-general that the said Mrs. Lerin declared herself to be a Jewess.

In the present circumstance Mr. Olarovsky acted according to the instructions of his Government, interdicting to vise passports of foreign Jews, with the exception of certain cases, under which Mrs. Lerin can not be placed.

Accept, etc.,

Cantacuzène.