Letter

HENRY KELLETT, Vice-Admiral and Commander-in-chief to S. A. Holmes, August 31, 1870

Author
HENRY KELLETT, Vice-Admiral and Commander-in-chief
Recipient
S. A. Holmes
Date
August 31, 1870
Type
Letter
Language
English

G.

Her Majesty’s Steamer Salamis, Che Foo, August 31, 1870.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge your second dispatch of this date, in which you still desire I will send a vessel to bring away American missionaries from Tungchow, and in reply I beg to inform you that I find her Majesty’s gunboat Grasshopper can be made ready for sea by to-morrow morning, and will proceed on this service at daylight. On arrival at Tungchow she will anchor off the town, hoist her ensign at the masthead, and be prepared to receive any American citizens and their families, and their servants, but no other persons. The commander of the gunboat will not land, nor send the boats on shore, and I request you will have the goodness to send a dispatch to Dr. Nevins by the Grasshopper, impressing upon him the urgent necessity of the embarkation taking place without delay.

I have, &c.,

HENRY KELLETT, Vice-Admiral and Commander-in-chief.

S. A. Holmes, Esq., United States Consul, Che Foo.

Topics
19th CenturyDiplomacyReconstruction
Sources
FRUS u2014 Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress with the Annual Message of the Pr 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 Pr.