Office of the Historian

Mr. Newberry to Mr. Foster.

Legation of the United States,
Constantinople, August 23, 1892. (Received September 5.)
No. 520.]

Sir: I have the honor to inclose herewith, for your information, a copy translation of a note received this morning from the minister of foreign affairs in regard to the Bartlett case. I shall not allow myself to be drawn into a diplomatic correspondence, but shall simply send my note, with its demands, this evening.

I have, etc.,

H. R. Newberry,
Chargé d’Affaires ad interim.
[Inclosure in No. 520.—Translation.]

Said Pacha to Mr. Newberry.

Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
Constantinople, August 22, 1892.

M. le Charge D’affaires: Since the receipt of your telegram and the subsequent note that you were good enough to address me on the 19th instant, I hastened to inform myself by telegraph, through the Governor-General of Konia, of the burning of Mr. Bartlett’s house at Bourdour.

From the telegram received from his excellency Hassan Bey, this house, in process of construction, was burned, from all appearances through the negligence of his watchman, Hamparsoum. A minute investigation is being made on the spot at this moment, the result of which you shall be made acquainted with.

As to his personal security, it has not at any time been menaced.

Accept, etc.,

Said.