Letter

Hoppin , Esq., &c., &c., &c to Hoppin, September 13, 1878

Author

Hoppin , Esq., &c., &c., &c

Recipient

Hoppin

Date

September 13, 1878

Type

Letter

Language

English

[Inclosure 1 in No. 17. ]

Mr. Clifton to Mr. Hoppin.

Government House, Portland, September 13, 1878.

Sir: His excellency the American minister, at his recent visit to Portland, for the purpose of seeing the prisoner, E. Shore, alias Condon, informed Captain Hume, deputy governor in temporary charge, that he was prepared to advance £10 or £15 to Shore on his release, and that fact was duly communicated to the prisoner.

A few days since, E. Shore applied to me to obtain this money for him, and on the matter being referred to the directors of convict prisons, I received instructions to apply for the same to his excellency, pointing out, at the same time, that the sum of £7 will be provided by the Crown, in addition to a suitable outfit for the voyage to America.

Under these circumstances I have ventured to address his excellency through you, and shall feel obliged by an early reply.

I have the honor to be, &c.,

GEORGE CLIFTON, Governor.
W. J. Hoppin, Esq., &c., &c., &c.

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.