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

Sir Julian Pauncefote to Mr. Hay.

British Embassy,
Washington, November 10, 1898.

Sir: By a dispatch from the acting British consul at Manila the Marquis of Salisbury has learned that on the occasion of the funeral of the late Mr. Rawson-Walker, Her Majesty’s consul at Manila, Rear-Admiral Dewey accompanied the body to the cemetery.

Acting under instructions from Lord Salisbury, I take this opportunity of expressing to you the appreciation by Her Majesty’s Government of the mark of respect shown by the attendance at the funeral of Rear-Admiral Dewey.

I have, etc.,

Julian Pauncefote.