Letter

Granville to Charles R. Lowell, June 7, 1880

Author

Granville

Recipient

Charles R. Lowell

Date

June 7, 1880

Type

Letter

Language

English

[Inclosure 2 in No. 19.]

Earl Granville to Mr. Lowell.

Foreign Office, June 7, 1880.

Sir: With reference to my note of the 3d instant, I have the honor to acquaint you that I have received a letter from the lords commissioners of the admiralty forwarding a chart of Smith’s Sound, which is inclosed herewith, indicating the position of the several depots of provisions left by the expedition under Sir George Nares in 1875.

I am further informed by the board of admiralty that they have much pleasure in placing these provisions and stores at the disposal of the expedition which is shortly to be dispatched to the Arctic regions by your government.

I have the honor to inclose likewise a statement of the scale according to which the rations referred to on the chart are calculated; and I would call your attention moreover to the possibility that the depot at the Cary Islands may have been disturbed by whalers or bears.

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.