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Acting Secretary of State Adee encloses documents related to previous reciprocity negotiations with Newfoundland and adds several comments clarifying aspects of these documents.
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1902-09-13
Pauncefote’s father, Lord Pauncefote, died earlier in 1902. Pauncefote thanks President Roosevelt for his kindness and relates the events of the funeral.
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1902-07-19
Arthur Raikes, charge d’affaires of the British Embassy, expresses His Majesty’s thanks at the respect shown by President Roosevelt and the United States government in memory of Lord Pauncefote.
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1902-06-02
George W. Smalley writes that President Roosevelt’s actions pertaining to the death of Ambassador Pauncefote have strengthened Anglo-American relations.
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1902-05-30
Selina Cubitt Pauncefote thanks President Roosevelt for the tribute paid to her late husband, Julian Pauncefote.
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1902-05-28
Selina Maud Pauncefote thanks President Roosevelt for his condolences and assistance after her father’s death.
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1902-05-29
On behalf of the British Embassy, Arthur Stewart Raikes, the First Secretary of the Embassy, expresses appreciation for President Roosevelt’s condolences to the late Ambassador’s family.
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1902-05-24
Selina Maud Pauncefote’s father, Julian Pauncefote, has passed away.
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1902-05-24
As per President Roosevelt’s request, Gerald C. Kitson forwards a copy of a letter from Henry Le Guay Geary, Governor of Bermuda, to Ambassador Julian Pauncefote.
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1902-03-28
Secretary of State Hay encloses a sketch of the proposed tribunal to determine the Alaskan boundary and a private memorandum from Ambassador Pauncefote with the British government’s suggestions. Hay believes that Pauncefote is favorable to the American draft of the treaty and will influence his government accordingly.
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1902-03-24
Gerald C. Kitson has informed Ambassador Julian Pauncefote of President Roosevelt’s displeasure concerning British management of concentration camps during the South African War. He offers to send summaries of the various blue books regarding the war and assures Roosevelt that Joseph Chamberlain’s statement that “never has such a [significant] effort been made to minimize the horrors of war” is justified.
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1902-03-18
Arthur Hamilton Lee reviews recent events related to Anglo-American relations.
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1901-12-17
British Ambassador to the U.S. Julian Pauncefote encloses a dispatch highlighting the courageous conduct of Herbert G. Squiers and Reverend Francis D. Gamewell during the attack on the Legation quarter in Beijing during the Boxer rebellion and asks that the British Government’s appreciation be extended to them. Squiers was the Secretary of the U.S. Legation and Gamewell was the Methodist minister connected with the University of Peking.
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1900-12-26
Frederick William Holls asked two things of Governor Roosevelt. First, he wants Roosevelt to attend a lunch in honor of Lord Pauncefote at Columbia University. Second, to meet him privately to discuss the upcoming party convention in Philadelphia and the nomination process. Several names have been presented and Holls thinks that although John Long is the best candidate, he would lose Maryland for the Republicans, and repel Germans because of his views on temperance.
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1900-06-02
This document contains the text of the preamble and fifteen articles of the Anglo-American Arbitration Treaty, also known as the Olney-Pauncefote Treaty, which was ultimately rejected by the U.S. Senate and therefore never went into effect. The treaty states that the governments of the United States and Great Britain agree to submit to arbitration in all matters of difference between them that cannot be negotiated diplomatically. The documents details related to the arbitration process, and the treaty’s duration and ratification.
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1897-01-11