Mr. Moore to Sir Julian Pauncefote.

Dear Sir Julian: Pray accept our thanks for the memorandum communicating to the Department the substance of a telegram from Sir Alexander Gollan, Her Majesty’s consul-general at Habana, in which he reports the result of an investigation made by the British consul at Santiago of the situation of Constructor Hobson and the seven seamen of the Merrimac, who are now held as prisoners of war at Santiago de Cuba. I am requested also to convey to you the thanks of the Navy Department.

Very truly, yours,

J. B. Moore.