Office of the Historian

No. 366.
Mr. Hoppin to Mr. Evarts.

Legation of the United States,
London, November 28, 1879. (Received December 10.)
No. 113.]

Sir: Referring to my dispatch No. 112, of the 25th of November, I have now the honor to inclose Lord Salisbury’s formal answer to my inquiry [Page 565] as to when a reply might be expected from him to your instruction, No. 347 to Mr. Welsh in relation to the claims of the Fortune Bay fishermen. You will observe that he explains his delay in this matter by the necessity of a reference to the authorities of Newfoundland.

I have, &c.,

W. J. HOPPIN.
[Inclosure in No. 113.]

The Marquis of Salisbury to Mr. Hoppin.

Foreign Office, November 24, 1879.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter marked “Immediate,” of the 21st instant, informing me that you had received on the previous evening a cable dispatch from Mr. Evarts, requesting you to inquire of me when an answer might be expected to Mr. Welsh’s notes of the 13th of August last in relation to the damages sustained by citizens of the United States in Fortune Bay in January, 1878, and I have to state to you in reply that some delay has arisen owing to the necessity of a reference to Newfoundland, but that a communication will be addressed to you in answer to the notes in question at as early a date as possible.

I have, &c.,

SALISBURY.