No. 324.
Mr. Halderman to Mr. Frelinghuysen.
Legation of
the United States,
Bangkok,
Siam, July 16, 1884. (Received
September 8.)
No. 103.]Sir: I have received this day from his royal
highness Prince Krom Mem Nares Warariddhi, the Siamese minister at
Washington, a letter of which the inclosed is a copy.
It will be noted with satisfaction that the embassy were highly pleased at
the warm welcome extended to them by the American Government and people.
Through other channels, strictly personal, the minister prince writes of his
journey as a “triumphal march,” a “continued ovation,” whereat he and his
suite were made supremely happy.
I have, &c.,
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[Inclosure in No. 103.]
Prince Nares to Mr.
Halderman.
Washington, May 11,
1884.
My Dear General Halderman: I take the first
opportunity since my arrival in the United States to write and let you
know how deeply I have been gratified at the warm and generous reception
which has been accorded to me, and at the universal kindness which your
countrymen have been, and still are, bestowing upon me on all sides.
I never doubted receiving a warm and kindly welcome here, but that your
Government should have extended its hand toward me in the manner it has
done, arid that its members, one and all, should have spared no pains to
make my sojourn here delightful, is more than I could ever have expected
or than I can, even now, realize.
In these circumstances you will not, I am sure, doubt how thoroughly
sincere my feelings are, nor will you allow me to forego the pleasure I
feel in expressing to you personally my sentiments of friendship and of
gratitude, for, although you are far away, I am fully sensible of the
fact that all this kindness must, in no small measure, be attributed to
you.
Believe me, &c.,
