Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 6, 1897

Mr. Conger to Mr. Sherman.

Legation of the United States,
Petropolis, November 10, 1897. (Received Dec. 7.)

No. 57.]

Sir: Since writing my dispatch No. 56 of this morning I have received a telegram from the President of Brazil, a copy and translation of which I inclose.

I have, etc.,

E. H. Conger.

[Inclosure in No. 57.—Translation.]

President Moraes to Mr. Conger.

Presidential Palace of the Republic,
November 10, 1897.

Greatly obliged. I thank your excellency for the congratulations sent me upon my providential escape, and for the expressions of sorrow on account of the heroic death of the minister of war.

Prudente Moraes.