Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 5, 1898

Mr. Woodford to Mr. Sherman.

Legation of the United States,
Madrid, February 19, 1898.

No. 149.]

Sir: Yesterday, the 18th instant, I had the honor to telegraph the President as follows:

Madrid, February 18, 1898.

President McKinley, Washington:

Her Majesty the Queen has just sent one of the gentlemen of the royal household to express, through me to Your Excellency, her profound sorrow and sympathy in the sad accident which has befallen the U. S. S. Maine at Habana.

Woodford.

I have, etc.

Stewart L. Woodford.