File No. 2491/81.
The Costa Rican Minister on Special Mission to the Secretary of State.
Washington, October 16, 1909.
Sir: I have the honor to inform your excellency that, it having been, as yet, impossible to reach a solution of the boundary question [Page 794] pending between the Republics of Costa Rica and Panama through direct negotiations, the Government of Costa Rica deemed it opportune to resort again to the good offices and friendly mediation generously offered by your excellency’s Government and accepted by those of Costa Rica and Panama, to arrive at the so much desired settlement.
With this end in view, my Government has given me instructions to resume the special mission with which I am intrusted near the Government of your excellency.
My Government hopes that, through the good will and friendship which at all times the Government of this country has shown toward the Republics of Costa Rica and Panama, they will soon arrive at a satisfactory and fraternal adjustment of their only controversy.
I take advantage of this opportunity, etc.,