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

Mr. Léger to Mr. Hay.

[Translation.]

Legation of the Republic of Haiti,
Spring Lake, N. J. , September 4, 1902 .

Mr. Secretary of State: I have just heard the report of the sad carriage accident which befell on yesterday the President of the United States, and am happy to know that he sustained no serious injury.

Permit me to have recourse to your kind intercession to assure Mr. Roosevelt that I, together with the American people, congratulate myself on his escape from so great a peril.

With my sympathies for the victims’ families, be pleased to accept, etc.,

J. N. Leger.