Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 5, 1898

Mr. Hatch to Mr. Sherman.

Hawaiian Legation,
Washington, March 3, 1898.

Sir: By personal direction of President Dole, I beg to extend to you, and through you to the President, an expression of President Dole’s sincere and heartfelt sympathy upon the loss of the battle ship Maine and so many of her gallant crew.

I have, etc.,

Francis M. Hatch.