Letter

Tenterden to Sydney Herbert Pierrepont, December 20, 1876

Author

Tenterden

Recipient

Sydney Herbert Pierrepont

Date

December 20, 1876

Type

Letter

Language

English

[Inclosure 4 in No. 91.]

Lord Tenterden to Mr. Pierrepont. (For the Earl of Derby.)

Foreign Office, December 20, 1876.

Immediate.]

Sir: With reference to your letter of this day’s date, I have the honor to inform you that I have received a communication from Her Majesty’s principal secretary of state for the home department, stating that as fifteen days have now expired since the committal of Brent to the Middlesex house of detention, a warrant for his surrender can now be issued, and inquiring whether you wish that an officer should be sent from the United States to fetch the prisoner, or whether he is to be sent to the United States in charge of an English officer.

I understand from your letter that you are ready to appoint a person to take Brent to the United States, and shall therefore be obliged by your informing me what answer should be given to the inquiry of the secretary of state.

I have, &c.,

For the Earl of Derby,

TENTERDEN.

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.