Minister Graves to the Secretary of State.

[Extract.]
No. 65.]

Sir: I have the honor to report that on the 19th of June last I left Stockholm for Trondhjem, Norway, there attending the coronation of His Majesty Haakon VII, King of Norway, on the 22d, and returned to my post on the 28th of June. Maj. W. E. Gibson, military attache, and Lieut. Commander John H. Gibbons, naval attaché, duly reported to me at Trondhjem and remained during the entire time. High honor was paid to the United States of America in the position accorded to the embassy at the coronation and in all the attendant receptions. I duly presented the letters of the President to His Majesty the King, and His Majesty expressed to your representative his thanks and appreciation. The Prince and Princess of Wales honored us by entertaining my wife and self at luncheon on their royal yacht to meet His Majesty and the Queen, and were most cordial in their reception.

It was noteworthy that the ambassadorial circle immediately surrounding Their Majesties in the cathedral at the coronation were the princes and princesses attending from Great Britain, Germany, Russia, and Denmark, and only the ambassadors from the two great Republics, France and the United States.

The French ambassador, Admiral Bayle, came on the cuirassé Amiral Aube, which has recently visited the United States, and having that ship, was able to give a reception to’ Their Majesties and the distinguished guests, which it was not possible to do on shore with the limited resources of the city of Trondhjem.

I have, etc.,

Charles H. Graves.