No. 324.
Mr. Halderman to Mr. Frelinghuysen.

No. 103.]

Sir: I have received this day from his royal highness Prince Krom Mem Nares Warariddhi, the Siamese minister at Washington, a letter of which the inclosed is a copy.

It will be noted with satisfaction that the embassy were highly pleased at the warm welcome extended to them by the American Government and people.

Through other channels, strictly personal, the minister prince writes of his journey as a “triumphal march,” a “continued ovation,” whereat he and his suite were made supremely happy.

I have, &c.,

JOHN A. HALDERMAN.
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[Inclosure in No. 103.]

Prince Nares to Mr. Halderman.

My Dear General Halderman: I take the first opportunity since my arrival in the United States to write and let you know how deeply I have been gratified at the warm and generous reception which has been accorded to me, and at the universal kindness which your countrymen have been, and still are, bestowing upon me on all sides.

I never doubted receiving a warm and kindly welcome here, but that your Government should have extended its hand toward me in the manner it has done, arid that its members, one and all, should have spared no pains to make my sojourn here delightful, is more than I could ever have expected or than I can, even now, realize.

In these circumstances you will not, I am sure, doubt how thoroughly sincere my feelings are, nor will you allow me to forego the pleasure I feel in expressing to you personally my sentiments of friendship and of gratitude, for, although you are far away, I am fully sensible of the fact that all this kindness must, in no small measure, be attributed to you.

Believe me, &c.,

NARES WARARIDDHI.