Letter

Charles R. Lowell to Granville Leveson-Gower, February 24, 1882

Author

Charles R. Lowell

Recipient

Granville Leveson-Gower

Date

February 24, 1882

Type

Letter

Language

English

[Inclosure 1 in No. 331.]

Mr. Lowell to Lord Granville.

Legation of the United States, London, February 24, 1882.

My Lord: I have the honor to acquaint you that the Acting Secretary of State has transmitted to me a resolution of the House of Representatives, a copy of which I inclose herewith, by which the President is requested to furnish the information therein specified concerning the arrest and imprisonment of American citizens by the British Government.

The Acting Secretary desires me to submit to him a full and accurate report on the subject with as little delay as practicable.

As there are many such cases of arrest and imprisonment, of which I cannot conveniently obtain the particulars, excepting through the kind offices of your lordship, I respectfully ask that you will cause me to be furnished with the information requested by the resolution so far as the same may be properly afforded by Her Majesty’s Government.

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.