File No. 859.001F87/10.]

The Secretary of State to the Minister of Denmark.

No. 173.]

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 9th instant, with which you transmit a letter, with office copy, [Page 335] addressed to the President by His Majesty King Christian X., announcing his accession to the throne of Denmark.

In reply I have the honor to say that His Majesty’s letter has been laid before the President’s [sic] whose reply will, in due course, be forwarded through the American Legation at Copenhagen.

Accept [etc.]

P. C. Knox.