The Secretary of State to the Chilean minister.

Dear Mr. Minister: I accept with pleasure the courteous invitation to visit Chile, extended through you, and I beg you to convey to the minister for foreign affairs my grateful thanks therefor.

I shall be most happy to meet the distinguished statesmen of Chile; and it is my hope that there will result therefrom a strengthening and cementing of the friendship and good will which have so long characterized the relations between our two countries, and a nearer approach to complete understanding and sympathy in their intercourse.

Faithfully, yours,

Elihu Root.