Emilio de los Santos Maisonnave to General Sickles, (private.), July 8, 1873

Mr. Maisonnave to General Sickles, (private.)

My Dear General: I have just read the letter you were good enough to write me to-day, and hasten to assure you that I will communicate its purport to the minister of Ultramar, so that he may make a decision in the matter of which you speak. Be assured that in this, as in everything else, we shall endeavor to animate ourselves with sentiments of the strictest justice, and with the desire to prove to foreign nations how sacred to us are the interests of their subjects.

At the same time I beg to inform you that the minister of war has given orders to the governor of Santander to send the American subject (sic) O’Kelly immediately to Madrid.

I improve this occasion to repeat to you the assurances of the distinguished esteem and consideration with which I am your sincere friend, Q. B. S. M.