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  4. Document 921

Mr. Day to Sir Julian Pauncefote.

Department of State,
Washington, July 26, 1898.
No. 1103.]

Excellency: Referring to previous correspondence relative to obtaining from the British consular officer at Habana protection for certain property there in charge of Miss Joerg, belonging to the Home Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, I have the honor to acknowledge, with thanks, the receipt of your note of the 21st instant, advising the Department of the contents of a telegram received by you to the effect that the British acting consul-general was at the point of taking up his residence in Miss Joerg’s house.

I have, etc.,

William R. Day.