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

Mr. Adee to Mr. White.

Department of State,
Washington , September 17, 1898 .

No. 862.]

Sir: The Department has learned with feelings of deep regret, through the recent press announcements of the death, at Kingston, Jamaica, of Frederick Wollaston Ramsden, esq., formerly Her Britannic Majesty’s consul at Santiago de Cuba, and desires to convey through you to the Government of Great Britain an expression of the sympathy of that of the United States on account of his death, and its appreciation of the valuable services Mr. Ramsden rendered in guarding American interests at Santiago during the period of the recent hostilities with Spain.

You will take early opportunity to communicate with the foreign office upon this subject.

Respectfully, yours,

Alvey A. Adee,
Acting Secretary.