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  4. Document 52

Mr. Mendonça to Mr. Sherman.

Legation of the United States of Brazil,
Washington , November 10, 1897 .

Sir: I have the honor to communicate to your excellency that by a cable dispatch of this date the minister of foreign relations, in the name of the President of the United States of Brazil, intrusts me with the agreeable duty of presenting to the Government of the United States of America the sincere thanks of the Brazilian Government for the friendly sentiments expressed by Minister Conger, on the behalf of this Government, for the preservation of President Moraes from assassination and for the death of Marshal Bittencourt while defending the President.

In fulfilling this duty I can assure your excellency that the expression of the friendly regard of the President of the United States has been received by the President of Brazil with the most cordial feeling.

Accept, etc.

Salvador de Mendonça.