Office of the Historian

File No. 033.1100 K77/219b.

The Secretary of State to the American Chargé d’Affaires.

Department of State,
Washington, December 8, 1912.

Sir: I have received from His Excellency, Señor Don Manuel E. Araujo, President of El Salvador, a handsome volume entitled: “Album del Centenario” in memory of the one hundredth anniversary of the beginning of the war of independence of El Salvador and the other Republics of Central America.1

You will avail yourself of an early opportunity to express in person to His Excellency, President Araujo, my thanks for this valuable work, so interesting and instructive, which has served to recall to me with pleasure my recent visit to El Salvador and the other republics of Central America.

I am [etc.],

P. C. Knox.
  1. The “Pink Book of Salvador,” containing an account of the Secretary’s visit (File No. 716.000).↩