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HATHORNE, United States Consul to Edward N. Kirk, December 27, 1878
[Inclosure 3 in Mr. Hathorne’s No. 42.]
Mr. Hathorne to Mr. Kirk.
United States Consulate, Zanzibar, December 27, 1878.
Sir: Your letter of this day’s date, wherein you inform me that the negroes referred to (unlawfully taken from the American bark Laconia to Her Britannic Majesty’s ship London by the officers of the latter vessel) have been returned to their ship, is received, and in reply thereto would state that I shall be glad to receive the report of the circumstances of the case referred to.
I wish to correct the date of my letter delivered you this morning, which was by me erroneously written December 26, and should have been December 27.
I have, &c.,
W. H. HATHORNE,
United States Consul.
United States Consul.
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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.