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

Mr. Hill to Lord Pauncefote.

Department of State,
Washington, September 19, 1900.

No. 1924.]

Excellency: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note, No. 265, of the 15th instant, by which you transmit an expression of the great sorrow with which Her Majesty the Queen has learnt the details of the terrible disaster at Galveston and the assurance of her sincere sympathy with the unfortunate sufferers from this calamity.

Your note has been communicated to the President, who charges me to express his sincere appreciation of Her Majesty’s sympathetic message.

I have, etc.,

David J. Hill,
Acting Secretary.