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. 3123/7.

The Acting Secretary of State to the Swedish Chargé.

Department of State,
Washington, December 9, 1907.

No. 42.]

Sir: I have received with sincere regret your note of the 8th instant anouncing the death of His Majesty King Oscar II of Sweden, which took place at the royal castle at Stockholm on yesterday morning.

A telegram was received at an early hour yesterday from the minister of the United States at Stockholm announcing His Majesty’s death.

The President at once sent a telegram to His Majesty Gustavus V, reading as follows.^a

Accept, etc.,

Robert Bacon.

1. Printed supra.