File No. 4001/20.

The Secretary of State to the British Chargé.

No. 611.]

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge, with much gratification, the receipt of your note No. 15, of the 24th instant, in which, with further reference to the Jamaica disaster, you are so good as to communicate Sir Edward Grey’s responsive telegram in acknowledgment of Mr. Bacon’s note, No. 605, of the 22d instant.

I have, etc.,

Elihu Root.