Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Address of the President to Congress December 2, 1913

File No. 812.00/10711.

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

American Legation,
San José, November 28, 1913.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge receipt of the Department’s cablegram of November 10, 2 p.m.¹ It was several days before the Department’s instructions could be carried out, when I addressed the following letter to the Foreign Office:

(Quotes his note² of November 15, embodying the instruction above referred to.)

Up to this time I have received no reply to the letter just quoted.

I have [etc.]

E. J. Hale.

1. See footnote to the telegram of November 7, 10 p.m.
2. Not printed.