The Acting Secretary of State to Minister Gummeré .
Washington , November 6, 1906 .
Sir: I have to acknowledge the receipt of your dispatch No. 1, of September 29 last, describing your visit to the court at Fez, and transmitting copies of your address on the occasion of the presentation to the Sultan of the letter addressed to him by the President and His Majesty’s reply.
[Page 1157]Your dispatch has been read with much gratification, and the department avails itself with pleasure of the opportunity to express its confidence that this manifestation of the friendly regard of the Government and people of the United States for the Shereefian Empire will beneficially, inure to the mutual relations of the two countries.
I am, etc.,
Acting Secretary.