Office of the Historian

Mr. Hay to Lord Pauncefote.

Department of State,
Washington, January 23, 1901.
No. 2055.]

Excellency: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of yesterday’s date by which you formally convey to me the sad intelligence of the death of the Queen.

The President had already telegraphed condolences to His Majesty the King on receiving the first confirmed intelligence of her late Majesty’s demise, and I had instructed Mr. Choate to express to Lord Lansdowne the profound sorrow of the Government and people of the United States and the deep sympathy we feel for the people of the British Empire in their great affliction.

As a further proof of the high regard and respect entertained for the Queen by the people of the United States, I beg to inclose for [Page 211] your information a copy of a resolutiona adopted on yesterday by the House of Representatives. The text of this resolution has been cabled in full to Mr. Choate for communication to Lord Lansdowne in advance of the formal communication of an engrossed copy.

I have, etc.,

John Hay.
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