Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 7, 1903

Mr. Hay to Sir Michael Herbert.

Department of State,
Washington, June 3, 1903.

My Dear Mr. Ambassador: I have received your personal note of the 30th ultimo, in which you inform me of the course followed by His Britannic Majesty’s consul-general at New York City with reference to persons desiring to go to South Africa, and in which you state that you have instructed His Majesty’s consular officers in certain ports of the United States along the lines suggested in my prior note on the subject.

I desire to express my thanks for the promptness with which you were good enough to accede to my requests.

I am, etc.,

John Hay.