Mr. Adee to Mr. van Roijen.

Sir: The Secretary of State duly received your telegram of the 15th instant by which you discharged the duty with which you were commissioned of expressing to him the profound sympathy felt by the Government of the Netherlands for the American people in view of the death of President McKinley, an earlier acknowledgment of which has been prevented by the pressure of official business attendant upon that sad event.

I shall be obliged if you will assure your Government that their sympathetic message is gratefully appreciated by the Government and people of the United States, who have been deeply moved by the manifestations of regret and sympathy by the Government and people of the Netherlands reported by the United States legation at The Hague.

Accept, etc.,

Alvey A. Adee,
Acting Secretary.