Letter

Charles R. Lowell to Granville Leveson-Gower, June 14, 1880

Author

Charles R. Lowell

Recipient

Granville Leveson-Gower

Date

June 14, 1880

Type

Letter

Language

English

[Inclosure 4 in. No. 19.]

Mr. Lowell to Earl Granville.

Legation of the United States, London, June 14, 1880.

My Lord: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your lordship’s letter of the 7th instant, forwarding a chart of Smith’s Sound, upon which is indicated the position of the several depots of provisions left by the expedition of Sir George Nares in 1875, and accompanied by a statement of the scale according to which the rations referred to on the chart are calculated.

Your lordship is also good enough to state that you are further informed by the board of admiralty that they have much pleasure in placing these provisions and stores at the disposal of the expedition which is shortly to be dispatched to the Arctic regions by my government.

I have telegraphed to the Department of State already this action of the lords commissioners, and I am sure I am only anticipating the wishes of the President in asking your lordship to convey to them his cordial thanks for their humane and generous determination in this matter.

I have sent, in obedience to Mr. Evarts’s instructions, the chart and copies of the accompanying papers to Lieutenant Greely, acting signal officer, commanding the expedition, at St. John’s, Newfoundland.

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.