Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 5, 1905

Minister Lyon to the Secretary of State.

The American Legation,
Monrovia, Liberia, July 13, 1905.

No. 115.]

Sir: Your cablegram dated July 1, announcing the unexpected demise of His Excellency John Hay, the Secretary of State, was received with profound regrets at this post of the 10th instant.

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I herein inclose copies of the communications received on the subject.

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I have, etc.,

Ernest Lyon.

[Inclosure.]

The Liberian Department of State to Minister Lyon.

Department of State,
Monrovia, Liberia, July 10, 1905.

Your Excellency: By direction of His Excellency the Secretary of State, I have the honor to acknowledge receipt of your dispatch of current date conveying the sad intelligence of the demise of His Excellency John Hay, American Secretary of State, and to express the deep sympathy of the Government and people of Liberia with the United States in the loss which she has sustained by the death of one of her most illustrious citizens.

I am to request you to convey these sentiments to his excellency the President of the United States.

I have, etc.,

Edwin J. Barclay,
Chief Clerk, State Department.