Letter
LISTER, For Earl Granville to Charles R. Lowell, November 16, 1882
[Inclosure 2 in No. 446.]
Mr. Lister to Mr. Lowell.
Foreign Office, November 16, 1882.
Sir: I have received your communication of the 3d instant stating that it is the wish of Mr. Corcoran, a United States citizen, that the body of the American poet, J. H. Payne, now interred at Tunis, should be exhumed and removed to the United States for reinterment, and I have the honor to state to you in reply that I have caused instructions to be addressed to Her Majesty’s consul-general at Tunis in the sense indicated in your communication now under reply.
Upon learning the result of Mr. Reade’s application to the Tunisian authorities, I shall address a further communication to you on the subject.
I have, &c.,
T. V. LISTER,
For Earl Granville.
For Earl Granville.
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