Sir Julian Pauncefote to Mr. Gresham.
Sir: By direction of Her Majesty’s principal secretary of state for foreign affairs I have the honor to inform you that instructions will be sent to the officers in command of Her Majesty’s cruisers in Bering Sea to distribute copies of the Bering Sea award act and of an explanatory map to all British sealers which they may meet in those waters.
As, however, the United States cruisers patrolling in those waters may meet with British sealers which have not been spoken by one of Her Majesty’s ships, Lord Kimberley requests me to ask you whether your Government would instruct United States naval officers to give copies of these documents to any British vessels which they may find to be without them.
In case your Government accede to this request, I shall have the honor to inclose copies of the act and map for the purpose above mentioned.
I have, etc.,