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

The Netherlands Chargé to the Acting Secretary of State.

[Translation.]

Royal Legation of the Netherlands,
Newport, July 3, 1905.

Mr. Assistant Secretary of State:

I had the honor to receive the dispatch by which your excellency was so good as to inform me of the demise of the late Secretary of State of the United States, Mr. John Hay.

I transmitted the sad intelligence by cable to the Government of Her Majesty the Queen, my august sovereign, and have been instructed by telegram to tender the assurance of the profound sympathy it feels for the American nation in the great loss it has just sustained.

Be pleased to accept, etc.,

E. de Tuyll de Serooskerken.