Letter

Charles R. Lowell to Granville Leveson-Gower, March 6, 1882

Author

Charles R. Lowell

Recipient

Granville Leveson-Gower

Date

March 6, 1882

Type

Letter

Language

English

No. 26. Mr. Lowell to Earl Granville.

Legation of the United States, London, March 6, 1882. (Received March 6.)

My Lord: I have the honor to acquaint you that I received yesterday from Mr. Frelinghuysen a cable dispatch in cipher, of which the following is a translation:

“Referring to the cases of O’Connor, Hart, McSweeney, Walsh, McEnery, and Dal-tol, American citizens imprisoned in Ireland, say to Lord Granville that, without discussing whether the provisions of the force act can be applied to American citizens, the President hopes that the lord lieutenant of Ireland will be instructed to exercise the powers intrusted to him by the first section to order early trials in their (and all other) cases in which Americans may be arrested.”

In transmitting this dispatch to your lordship, I venture to hope that, considering the importance of the matters to which it refers, it may receive the early attention of 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.