File No. 817.51/578.

The Acting Secretary of State to the Minister for Foreign Affairs.

[Telegram.]

I have the honor, in behalf of the Secretary of State, who is at the moment absent from Washington, to request you to assure His [Page 1058] Excellency the President of Nicaragua of our appreciation of the sentiments conveyed in your telegram received October 7, the contents of which will be brought to the knowledge of the Secretary.

J. B. Moore.