Letter

Charles R. Lowell to Granville Leveson-Gower, August 23, 1883

Author

Charles R. Lowell

Recipient

Granville Leveson-Gower

Date

August 23, 1883

Type

Letter

Language

English

[Inclosure 2 in No. 615.]

Mr. Lowell to Lord Granville.

Legation of the United States, London, August 23, 1883.

My Lord: I have the honor to acknowledge the reception of your lordship’s note of yesterday, in which you inquire whether in accepting the notice which I have given to Her Majesty’s Government, under the instructions of the Department of State, that the provisions of Articles XVIII, XIX, XX, XXI, XXII, XXIII, XXIV, XXV, and XXX of the treaty of May 8, 1871, between the United States and Great Britain, will terminate and be of no force on the expiration of two years next after the date of said notice. Her Majesty’s Government correctly understands the intention of the United States Government to be, that the provisions of Article XXXII which relate to Newfoundland shall cease to be in force and operation at the same time as the articles recited in the notice which relate to the Dominion of Canada.

I beg to state, in reply, that I have transmitted your lordship’s inquiry to the Department of State, and shall have the honor of addressing your lordship another communication on the subject as soon as I receive an answer.

I have, &c.,

J. R. LOWELL.

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.