Lord Pauncefote to Mr. Hay.

No. 101.]

Sir: On the receipt of your letter of the 26th of March, I immediately forwarded to the Marquis of Lansdowne the photograph of the tablet which the United States Navy Department propose to place upon the house occupied at Santiago de Cuba by the late Mr. Frederick W. Ramsden, Her Majesty’s consul at that port, in recognition of his exertions on behalf of the American naval prisoners during the Spanish-American war.

The Marquis of Lansdowne has now directed me to express to the United States Government the gratification of His Majesty’s Government at this testimony to the services of one of His Majesty’s late consular officers.

I have, etc.,

Pauncefote.