Letter
Smithers , Esq., United States Consul, Smyrna to Smithers, April 15, 1877
[Inclosure 3 with Mr. Fottion’s No. 13.]
Mr. Fottion to Mr. Smithers.
United States Consular Agency, Mytilene, 15 (27) April, 1877.
No. 17.]
Sir: I have the honor to call your attention to the two copies inclosed. The one, No. 20, is a letter from my colleague, vice-consul of Russia in this city, who asks American protection for Russian subjects. The No. 16 is my reply to the Russian vice-consul, in which I say that my duty does not permit me to accept it without the permission and instruction of my superior, to whom I submit the present dispatch with the prayer for an immediate answer, because the Russian vice-consul is placed in a difficult position after the suspension of diplomatic relations, for there is here no German vice-consul.
I am, your obedient servant,
- M. M. FOTTION, Agent.
- E. J. Smithers, Esq., United States Consul, Smyrna.
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