File No. 033.1100 K77/10.

The Minister of Costa Rica in Charge of the Legation of Salvador to the Acting Secretary of State.

My Dear Mr. Secretary: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt, this afternoon, of your esteemed letter dated yesterday2 in which you were pleased to inform me that [etc.].

In answer thereto it affords me great pleasure to say that the Government and people of Salvador appreciate in all its importance the happy thought of His Excellency the President and will receive with the deepest gratification the honor of the visit of his excellency the Secretary of State. I am sure that he will have opportunity to notice how highly they regard the happy and cordial traditional amity which it has been and is the aim of Salvador to cultivate with the United States.

On Monday, the 12th instant, I called at the Department and left word that I will be very glad if I can be of any service in connection with Secretary Knox’s trip, and I hope to be informed of the precise date when he will arrive in Salvador.

With many thanks for your courtesy, I am [etc.],

J. B. Calvo.
  1. The identic note printed under Panama: “Visit of the Secretary of State to the Republics of Central America and the Caribbean Sea,” p. 1240.