Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 5, 1899

Mr. Tower to Mr. Hay.

[Confidential.]

British Embassy,
Washington, October 8, 1899.

Sir: I have the honor, by direction of Her Majesty’s principal secretary of state for foreign affairs, to inquire whether, in the event of an attack upon the British forces by the Boers rendering necessary the withdrawal from Pretoria of the British agent, your Government would allow the United States consul at Pretoria to take charge of British interests.

I have, etc.,

Reginald Tower.