Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 2, 1902

Mr. Hay to Mr. Choate.

Department of State,
Washington, July 9, 1902.

No. 952.]

Sir: I have to acknowledge the receipt of your No. 883, of the 19th ultimo, inclosing copy of a letter from Mr. Hawksley, one of the trustees of the will of the late Cecil John Rhodes, together with the provisions of the will relating to the establishment of scholarships at Oxford for students from the British colonies and the United States.

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I have caused the inclosures to your dispatch to be printed, and have communicated them to the governors of the States and Territories, to the end that the views of the chief officials having control of education in the various States and Territories may be obtained and communicated to the trustees, as requested by Mr. Hawksley.

I have also sent a copy of the print to the Commissioner of Education for an expression of his views.

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I am, etc.,

John Hay.