File No. 835.415A/97.

The Secretary of State to the Argentine Chargé.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 22d instant, with which you transmit, with office copy, a letter addressed to the President of the United States by the President of the Argentine Republic, in acknowledgment of the letter sent by President Taft on the occasion of the celebration of the centenary of the independence of the Argentine Republic.

It has afforded me much pleasure to lay His Excellency’s letter before the President.

Accept, etc.,

P. C. Knox.