Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 5, 1898

Mr. Moore to Mr. Hay.

Department of State,
Washington, June 27, 1898.

No. 717.]

Sir: I have to inform you that your dispatch of the 7th instant transmitting an autograph letter from the Right Hon. Herbert J. Gladstone, expressing the grateful appreciation of all his family for the message of sympathy which by the instruction of the Department you transmitted to him on the occasion of his father’s death has been received. The letter in question was shown to the President.

Respectfully yours,

J. B. Moore,
Acting Secretary.