File No. 24607/41.

Ambassador Reid to the Secretary of State.

No. 1306.]

Sir: With reference to your instruction No. 1295 of the 13th ultimo, conveying a resolution, adopted by the Senate on May 9, expressing their condolence and sympathy on the occasion of the death of His Late Majesty King Edward VII, I have the honor to inclose herewith copy of the foreign office reply, expressing, on behalf of the King, his grateful appreciation and sincere thanks for this kind message of sympathy.

I have, etc.,

Whitelaw Reid.
[Inclosure.]

The Minister for Foreign Affairs to Ambassador Reid.

Your Excellency: I duly laid before the King your excellency’s note of the 25th ultimo conveying a resolution adopted by the Senate of the United States of America, on the 9th ultimo, expressing their condolences and sympathy on the occasion of the deeply lamented death of His Late Majesty King Edward VII.

The King commands me to request that your excellency will be so good as to take the necessary steps to convey to the United States Senate his grateful appreciation and sincere thanks for this kind message of sympathy in the irreparable loss which has been sustained by His Majesty, his royal house, and the British Empire.

I have, etc.,

(For
Sir Edward Grey
.)
F. A. Campbell.