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

Lord Lansdowne to Mr. Hay.

[Telegram.]

Foreign Office,
London, May 25, 1902.

His Majesty’s Government thank you for your kind and sympathetic message. They have sustained an irreparable loss, and they are glad to know that its extent is understood by the Government of the United States, and that Lord Pauncefote’s great qualities were appreciated by your country not less than by his own.

Lansdowne.