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

File No. 822.001 P69/3.]

The President to the Constitutional President of Ecuador.

The White House,
Washington, January 10, 1913.

Great and Good Friend: I have received your letter of the 20th of September last¹, in which Your Excellency announced your assumption, on the 30th² of August last, of the Presidency of the Republic of Ecuador.

I cordially reciprocate the sentiments you express for the continuance of the friendly relations which have heretofore existed between the United States and Ecuador, and I assure Your Excellency of my best wishes for your personal welfare and for the prosperity of the Republic over which you have been called upon to preside.

Your Good Friend,

Wm. H. Taft.

1. See For. Rel. 1912, p. 411.
2. The 31st.