Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 3, 1907, (In two parts), Part II

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The Persian Minister to the Secretary of State.

[Translation.]

Legation of Persia,
Washington, January 9, 1907.

Mr. Minister: I fulfill a very painful duty in communicating to your excellency the sorrowful calamity that has stricken the Persian nation in the decease of its beloved and regretted sovereign Mozaffer-ed-Dine Shah.

Please accept, etc.,

Morteza.