Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 3, 1912

File No. 033.1100 K77/11.

The Minister of Costa Rica to the Acting Secretary of State .

Legation of Costa Rica,
Washington , February 14, 1912 .

My Dear Mr. Secretary: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt this afternoon of your esteemed letter dated yesterday, in which you were pleased to inform me that, [etc.]¹

In answer thereto it affords me the greatest pleasure to say that the Government and people of Costa Rica appreciate in all its importance the happy thought of His Excellency the President and will receive with the deepest gratification the honor of the visit of his excellency the Secretary of State. I am sure that he will have an opportunity to notice how highly they regard the happy and cordial traditional amity which it has been and is the aim of Costa Rica to cultivate with the United States.

With many thanks [etc.]

J. B. Calvo.

1. For the letter referred to, see Panama, “Visit of the Secretary of State to the Republics of Central America and the Caribbean Sea,” p. 1240.