File No. 2491/138.
The Secretary of State to the Costa Rican Minister on Special Mission.
Washington, March 23, 1910.
Sir: I have read with much pleasure your kind note of the 19th instant, in which you express your Government’s profound appreciation of the mediation of the Government of the United States which resulted in the signing by yourself and by Dr. Porras of the convention for the submission to the Chief Justice of the United States of the boundary question between Costa Rica and Panama.
You also express your appreciation of the part taken by myself personally and by my associates in the department in the work which has resulted in this happy issue.
I thank you for the kind sentiments expressed in your note, and I assure you that it has given the Government of the United States and the department great gratification to have been afforded an opportunity to aid in the work tending so much to the maintenance of the peaceful and fraternal relation between your country and its neighbor, Panama.
This note would be incomplete did I not add, as I now do, my appreciation of the wisdom, sense of justice, and good temper which you have shown in the conferences, and which have contributed their full share to the success which has resulted from our coming together.
With sincerest wishes for your future well-being and happiness, I beg you to accept, etc.,