Letter
Wickham Hoffman to Edward Henry Stanley, May 1, 1876
[Inclosure 3 in No. 76.]
Mr. Hoffman to Lord Derby.
Legation of the United States, London, May 1, 1876.
My Lord: Referring to your note of the 11th of April, and to mine of the 20th, I have the honor to request that your lordship will take such steps as shall lead to the detention of the fugitive Winslow in custody until I shall have received your lordship’s answer to my note, and have had time to communicate it to Mr. Fish, and to receive his instructions in reply.
I make this request in the interest of justice, and with the earnest hope that means may be found of settling the question unfortunately in dispute between our two governments, and of thus preserving the treaty, and avoiding the turning of great criminals loose upon society to recommence their career of crime.
I have, &c.,
WICKHAM HOFFMAN.
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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.