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. Sherman.

Washington, April 5, 1898.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of Mr. Day’s note No. 966, confidential, of this day’s date, requesting that, in case of trouble between the United States and Spain, Her Majesty’s consul-general in Habana may take charge of the American property and papers belonging to the United States consulate there.

I have lost no time in telegraphing your request to Her Majesty’s principal secretary of state for foreign affairs, and shall inform you of the reply as soon as I may receive it. I have, etc.,

Julian Pauncefote.