File No. 033.1100K77/35.]

The Minister of Guatemala to the Acting Secretary of State.

My Dear Mr. Secretary: I have received your kind letter of February 13th, 1912,1 and take pleasure in informing you that we shall be more than pleased to have his excellency the Secretary of State, Mr. Knox, with us, also his distinguished wife, and all the members of the party accompanying them, and to further show my pleasure I will leave tonight to be present at a reception which we are to give in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Knox in Guatemala.

Every effort will be made to make the visit of Mr. Knox a most happy one, a visit that will, I am sure, make the relations more intimate, as I have had the pleasure to assure you in my official letter of February 12th, 1912.

Officially, and personally, I wish to state that the decision of His Excellency President Taft has been received by the Guatemalan Government and people as a high honor.

I am [etc.]

Joaquín Méndez.
  1. The identic letter printed under Panama: “Visit of the Secretary of State to the Republics of Central America and the Caribbean Sea,” p. 1240.