Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 7, 1909

File No. 5072/43.

The Minister for Foreign Affairs of Bulgaria to the Secretary of State.

[Translation.]

Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Worship,
Sophia, May 2/15, 1909.

No. 536.]

Mr. Minister: I have the honor to apprise your excellency that the great powers signatory to the treaty of Berlin have seen fit to recognize the political act accomplished at Tirnovo September 22/October 5/1908, by which Bulgaria was proclaimed independent and its sovereign King of the Bulgars.

I am glad of the opportunity thus afforded me to transmit to your excellency the most sincere thanks of the Bulgarian Government for the warm felicitations the Government of the United States was pleased to address to it on the occasion.

I cherish the hope, Mr. Minister, that the Government of the United States will continue to maintain friendly relations with the new Kingdom in the future and kindly contribute to its further development.

Be pleased, etc.,

S. Paprikoff.