Letter
HOLMES, United States Vice-Consul to Vice-Admiral Sir Henry Kellett, August 31, 1870
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United States Consulate, Che Foo, August 31, 1870.
Sir: I have the honor to hand you herewith, for your perusal, a letter just received from Rev. J. L. Nevins, D. D., residing at Tungchow, which will explain itself.
The news from there being of rather an alarming character, and the people deeming it unsafe to remain there longer in the absence of an American man-of-war, if it would not be asking too much, may I request that your excellency will be kind enough to allow a gunboat to go to their assistance, providing you consider it necessary. The residents there, eighteen in number, men, women, and children, have made arrangements, according to the letter herewith, to leave to-morrow, the 1st September.
I am, sir, &c., &c.,
S. A. HOLMES, United States Vice-Consul.
His Excellency Vice-Admiral Sir Henry Kellett, &c., &c.
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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 Pr.