Letter

Granville to Charles R. Lowell, February 26, 1881

Author

Granville

Recipient

Charles R. Lowell

Date

February 26, 1881

Type

Letter

Language

English

[Inclosure 5 in No. 138.]

Lord Granville to Mr. Lowell.

Foreign Office, February 26, 1881.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of this day informing me that you have received a telegraphic message from Mr. Evarts in which he states that although the offer made by Her Majesty’s Government for the settlement of the fishery claims is not quite up to his expectations he nevertheless accepts it, assuming that the amount can presently be at his disposal for immediate distribution; and I have to state to you, in reply, that Her Majesty’s Government are ready to hold the sum of £15,000 at the disposal of the Government of the United States on receiving your assurance that it is accepted in full of all claims arising out of any interruption of American fishermen on the coast of Newfoundland and its dependencies up to the present time, and without prejudice to any question of the rights of either government under the treaty of Washington.

I have, &c.,

GRANVILLE.

Topics

19th Century Diplomacy Reconstruction

Sources

FRUS u2014 Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the P View original source ↗

U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the P.