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your {in pencil}^specific instructions.

I have the honor to remain
Your Obedient Servant,
A. W. Terrell

{in pencil} While I write, your teleg cipher telegram
acknowledging receipt of my ^^own as to ^^{Marash +} Aintab
arrests of Turkish subjects in employment of employed by the
Missionaries is received, I believe a copya copy of which is enclosed__ in
^{appended to the overleaf}which yYou inform me what the Boston Missionary
Board desires, and ^^you instruct me to protest
American domiciliary rights. I have no
information that in this [illegible]^^affair they have been in jeopardy
but you will observe from all the facts, the pertaining^pertinency of my the
inquiry made in my telegram ^^{and not answered} as to how ^^far I may go "for the
protection of subjects of Turkey engaged in ^^{teaching in} American Schools"
since [illegible] the existence of Missionary work can be destroyed by ^^their capricious arrests.

In this condition of affairs the course above
indicated will be pursued, but without straining
friendly relations, until your instructions, regarding it
can be received.