Mr. Calderon to Mr. Hay.

No. 14.]

Sir: I have the honor to express to your excellency, in the name of my Government, the gratefulness of the Peruvian people and Government [Page 694] for the message of sympathy delivered by Minister Irving Dudley, in the name of the American people and of His Excellency President Roosevelt, on the occasion of the sorrowful bereavement suffered by Peru.

Adding my own thanks, it affords me pleasure to renew, etc.,

Manuel Alvarez Calderon.