Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 8, 1908

File No. 3742/7.

President-elect Leguia to the Secretary of State.

[Telegram.]

Lima, Peru , May 29, 1908 .

I deeply appreciate Mrs. Root’s and your congratulations upon my presidential election and tender you my sincerest thanks therefor.

I regard your kind message as a further proof of friendship toward Peru, which my administration will at all times reciprocate.

Leguia.