Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 5, 1905

Minister O’Brien to the Acting Secretary of State.

American Legation,
Copenhagen, July 5, 1905.

No. 8.]

Sir: Referring to my dispatch No. 7 of the third instant,^a I now desire to add that on the 4th instant I received a note from Count Raben-Levetzau, minister for foreign affairs, dated the second instant, and being his reply to my telegram advising him of the death of Mr. Hay.

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I have, etc.,

T. J. O’Brien.

[Inclosure.]

The Minister of Foreign Affairs to Minister O’Brien.

Dear Mr. O’Brien:

I am so sorry to hear about the great loss the United States has had by the death of such an eminent statesman as Secretary Hay. Can I ask you the kindness to express my feelings and those of my fatherland to President Roosevelt?

Sincerely yours,

Raben-Levetzau.

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