Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 2, 1902

Mr. Hay to Lord Pauncefote .

Department of State,
Washington , May 9, 1902 .

Personal]

My Dear Mr. Ambassador: I beg to thank you for your personal note of the 3d instant, and to inclose for your information a copy of an instruction^a which I have sent to Mr. Choate, directing him to formally request Lord Lansdowne to instruct His Majesty’s agent at Sofia to take charge of United States interests in Bulgaria, as before.

I am, etc.,

John Hay.

1. Printed next below.