Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 3, 1901

Mr. Choate to Mr. Hay.

American Embassy,
London , February 6, 1901 .

No. 497.]

Sir: I have the honor to transmit herewith a copy of a note received by me from Lord Lansdowne on January 27, in reply to my note of the 23d, transmitting a copy of the resolution adopted by the House of Representatives on the announcement of the deeply lamented death of Her Majesty the Queen.

I have, etc.,

Joseph H. Choate.

[Inclosure.]

Lord Lansdowne to Mr. Choate.

Foreign Office , January 26, 1901 .

Your Excellency: I duly laid before the King, my sovereign, your note of the 23d instant in which your excellency transmitted a copy of a resolution which was adopted by the House of Representatives of the United States of America on the announcement of the deeply lamented death of her late Majesty Queen Victoria, Empress of India, and I have received the King’s commands to request your excellency to convey his high appreciation of this mark of sympathy and of the additional respect shown to the memory of the late Queen by the immediate adjournment of the House.

I have, etc.,

Lansdowne.