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

File No. 835.413W27/11.

The Secretary of State to the American Consul General.

Department of State,
Washington, September 13, 1913.

Sir: Referring to your despatch No. 778 of July 18, 1913, there is enclosed for your information a copy of a letter from the Acting Librarian of Congress acknowledging the receipt of photographs and a bronze medal commemorating the presentation to the Argentine nation of a statue of George Washington, by American citizens resident in Argentina.

I am [etc.]

For

Mr. Bryan

:

Wilbur J. Carr.

[Inclosure.]

The Acting Librarian of Congress to the Secretary of State.

Library of Congress,
Washington, August 27, 1913.

Sir: I beg to acknowledge the Department’s letter of August 23, with accompanying despatch from the American Consul-General at Buenos Aires. Argentina, transmitting a bronze medal (with three photographs) commemorating the presentation to the Argentine Nation of a statue of George Washington, by American citizens resident in Argentina.

I write for the Librarian to express our satisfaction in the possession of this medal, and our hearty acknowledgments to the Department for including this, the National Library of the United States, as the recipient of it.

We assume that no acknowledgment from the Library is to go to the Consul General. If one should be expedient, we shall be happy to transmit it.

Very respectfully,

H. H. B. Meyer.