Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President, Transmitted to Congress, December 4, 1893

Mr. Gresham to Senhor Cerquiera.

Department of State,
Washington, April 1, 1893.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 29th ultimo, announcing the death of your colleague, Baron de Aguiar de Andrada, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of Brazil on a special mission to the United States, and expressing your sincere thanks for the funeral honors paid by this Government to his memory.

I beg to assure you of the regret felt by this Government at the death of this eminent diplomatist, and of my personal sympathy with you in the loss you have sustained.

Accept, etc.,

W. Q. Gresham.