File No. 5072/43.
The Secretary of State to the Bulgarian Minister for Foreign Affairs.
Washington, June 2, 1909.
Excellency: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 2/15 ultimo, by which you are so good as to inform me that the powers signatories to the treaty of Berlin have recognized Bulgaria as independent and its sovereign as King of the Bulgars.
In thanking your excellency for the courtesy of your note I gladly avail myself of the opportunity to renew to you the felicitations of the United States and the assurances of the cordial friendship of this Government and people, which the diplomatic representative of the United States accredited to your Government was instructed by the President to convey to His Majesty the King.
Accept, etc.,