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

Lord Pauncefote to Mr. Hill.

[Personal.]

British Embassy,
Newport R. I., September 15, 1900.

Dear Mr. Hill: I have received a telegram from the Marquis of Salisbury in which he desires me to convey to the Secretary of State the deep sympathy of Her Majesty’s Government on the occasion of the terrible disaster at Galveston.

I take this opportunity of expressing my own sorrow at this calamitous event.

I am, etc.,

Pauncefote.