Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 3, 1900

Messrs. Hopkins & Hopkins to Mr. Adee.

Washington Loan and Trust Building,
Washington, December 15, 1899.

Sir: We have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of the Department’s letter of the 14th instant, relative to the seizure of the Mashona and Maria by her Majesty’s cruiser Partridge, and inquiring whether our clients, Messrs. Flint, Eddy & Co., are American citizens.

In response we have to state that Messrs. Flint, Eddy & Co. are American citizens domiciled in the city of New York.

We are, etc.,

• Hopkins & Hopkins,
• Per S. G. Hopkins.