Sir Julian Pauncefote to Mr. Gresham.
Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 21st instant, in which you were good enough to transmit for my information copies of communications from Mr. Secretary Carlisle and the Secretary of the Interior with regard to the request of the Makah Indians for permission to use their schooners as places of refuge while fishing in Bering Sea and the waters thereof.
I lost no time in forwarding copies of these communications to Her Majesty’s principal secretary of state for foreign affairs, and as soon as I receive a reply from his Lordship I will inform you of the views entertained on this subject by Her Majesty’s Government.
I have, etc.,