Mr. Nabeshima to Mr. Hay.
My Dear Mr. Secretary: You will pardon me, I trust, for addressing you informally upon the subject, but I should regard it as a great favor if you would kindly inform me when I may expect a reply to my communications regarding quarantine matters at San Francisco. I would seek a personal interview but for the fact that I do not like to take up your time when it must be so fully occupied during the closing hours of the session of Congress. Meantime, however, the receipt of telegraphic instructions from my Government, of which I informed you, and the continued agitated state of feeling in the Japanese community at San Francisco makes it very desirable that I should receive a reply to my communications dated the 22d, 23d, and 30th ultimo, respectively.