Mr. Adam to Mr. Sherman.
Washington, October 20, 1897.
Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note No. 805, of this day’s date, informing me of the appointment of Messrs. Charles S. Hamlin and David Starr Jordan as delegates to represent the United States Government at the meeting of experts to be held in Washington in accordance with the proposal contained in the Marquis of Salisbury’s note of the 28th of July last to Mr. Hay.
With regard to the allusion to the language of my two notes, I have the honor to point out afresh that my note of the 15th instant was written under direct instructions from the Marquis of Salisbury, to whom I shall not fail to communicate the text of your note with the least possible delay.
I have, etc.,