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

File No. 3714/5.

The Persian Minister to the Secretary of State.

[Translation.]

Legation of Persia,
Washington, January 15, 1907.

Mr. Minister: I have the honor to inform your excellency that, according to a cablegram received from my Government, the duration of the official mourning for the death of my lamented sovereign has just been fixed at six months; the coronation of His Imperial Majesty the new Shah will take place on January 19 of this year, and the crown prince will be designated after the coronation.

I embrace this opportunity to renew, etc.,

Morteza.