TINSLY, United States Consular Agent to Charles R. Lowell, April 25, 1882

Mr. Tinsly to Mr. Lowell.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge receipt of your letter of the 24th instant. In compliance with a request from the prisoners John McInerny and Patrick Slattery, to call at the jail to-day, I did so, and had an interview with them. They said as it was to benefit their health they came to Ireland, and neither of them feeling well, they would not be disposed at present to return to the United States even if they were to be liberated from prison.

I distinctly informed them that I held out no inducement to them to leave Ireland, but if they were liberated and wished to return to America, I was authorized, as an act of kindness, to pay to each of them the amount I previously named to pay their passage and other expenses, as they may not have funds to enable them to do so. The matter now stands as I have stated.

I remain, &c.,