Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 5, 1899

Mr. Hay to Sir Julian Pauncefote.

[Personal.]

Department of State,
Washington , March 7, 1899 .

Dear Sir Julian: I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your courteous note of the 4th instant, in which you inform me that Her Majesty’s Government, having made arrangements for sending the remains of the late Lord Herschell to England by a ship of war, it will not be in their power to accept the President’s offer to send, as he so earnestly desired to do, an American man-of-war to perform the mournful office in question.

I remain, etc.,

John Hay.