Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 6, 1897

Mr. Sherman to Sir Julian Pauncefote.

Department of State, April 2, 1897.

Dear Sir Julian: I beg to inform you that the subject of your note of the 30th ultimo has received the attention of the Department, and that this Government will be represented on the occasion of the celebration, in June next, of the sixtieth anniversary of the Queen’s accession to the throne.

The United States ambassador at the Court of St. James will be instructed at an early date to inform the British Government more fully on the subject.

I am, etc.,

John Sherman.