Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 5, 1898

Mr. Hay to Mr. Day.

American Embassy,
London, June 7, 1898.

No. 419.]

Sir: I have the honor to transmit herewith an autograph letter from the Right Hon. Herbert J. Gladstone, expressing the grateful appreciation of all his family for the message of sympathy which by your instructions I transmitted to him on the occasion of his father’s death. He would be glad if you would kindly submit the letter to the President.

I am, etc.,

John Hay.

[Inclosure in No. 419.]

Mr. Gladstone to Mr. Hay.

Hawarden Castle, Chester, June 5, 1898.

Dear Colonel Hay: On behalf of my mother and the family I beg through you to offer to the President of the United States our most grateful thanks for the kind message of sympathy sent to us on his part and that of the American people.

We see in it the recognition of the abiding interest which my father cherished in the welfare and wonderful progress of America, and we value it all the more because it has been sent by the President at a time of inevitable pressure and absorption.

With our best wishes for the prosperity of the President and the American people,

I have, etc.,

Herbert J. Gladstone.