Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 3, 1900

Mr. Hay to Mr. Porter.

Department of State,
Washington , February 21, 1900 .

No. 736.]

Sir: Referring to your dispatch No. 611, of January 11 last, relative to the request of the director of the French mint for a Lafayette memorial dollar for the coin collection of the mint, I inclose herewith copy of a letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting hither a specimen of the coin in question for the French Government.

You are instructed to send the memorial dollar to the Paris mint through the appropriate channel.

I am, etc.,

John Hay.

[Inclosure.]

Mr. Spaulding to Mr. Hay.

Treasury Department , February 13, 1900 .

Sir: Referring to your letter of the 1st instant, inclosing copy of dispatch from the United States ambassador at Paris, stating that the director of the mint at Paris had expressed a wish for a Lafayette memorial dollar for the coin collection of that mint, and suggesting that same be furnished, in view of the courteous treatment extended Mr. Slaker, who visited the mints of Europe under instructions of the Department, I have the honor to inclose herewith a specimen of the coin, with the request that you will present the same, conveying to the director of the Paris mint the thanks of this Department for the courtesy extended its representative.

Respectfully,

O. L. Spaulding,
Acting Secretary.