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Mr. Thomas to Mr. Hay.

American Legation,
Stockholm , January 18, 1904 .
No. 343.]

Sir: Referring to your instruction No. 176, of November 13, 1903, transmitting a gold watch and chain which the President desired to present to Captain Hans Holm, of the Norwegian steamship Bratten, in testimony of the humanity shown by him in picking up at sea the boats containing the master and crew of the shipwrecked American bark John R. Stanhope, I have the honor to inform you that I lost no time in forwarding this testimonial to the foreign office with a request that it be delivered to Captain Holm, and I now have the honor to return to you his receipt therefor duly signed and witnessed.

I have, etc.,

W. W. Thomas.