Mr. Gresham to Mr. Terrell.
Washington, August 9, 1893.
Sir: I have received your No. 10, of the 20th ultimo, in regard to the assault upon Miss Anna Melton at Daree, near Amadia, in Koordistan, in June last, and your action to effect the arrest of the guilty parties and secure their due punishment.
Your prompt action in this case, which appears to have anticipated the Department’s instruction No. 30, of the 3d inst., is cordially commended.
The Rev. John Gillespie, corresponding secretary of the Board of Missions of the Presbyterian Church, has been advised of the purport of your dispatch, as well as of your successful efforts, reported in your No. 18, of the 24th ultimo, in securing a vizierial letter addressed to the governor of the province of Mosul, placing the American missionaries and teachers within his jurisdiction under his special charge.
This will no doubt be very gratifying to our citizens in the remote part of the Turkish Empire, no less than to their friends in the United States.
I am, etc.,