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

Mr. Porter to Mr. Hay.

Embassy of the United States,
Paris, March 17, 1900.

No. 644.]

Sir: I have to acknowledge the receipt of your instruction No. 736, of February 21, transmitting a Lafayette memorial dollar given by the Secretary of the Treasury for the collection of the French mint. The coin was sent through the proper channel to the director of that establishment, who desires this embassy to express his thanks to the United States Government for this attention, and who states that this souvenir dollar was placed in the collection of the mint with a label indicating its origin.

I have, etc.,

Horace Porter.