PAPERS OF MIRABEAU BuoNAPARTE LAMAR
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Do not fail to write and send your commands to your sincere friend and 1\fost obedient Servant J. DEBRIN. Honble M. B. Lamar U. S. Minister Resident at S. Jose de Costa Rica. [Endorsed:] Letter from J. Debrin October 27th 1858
No. 2690. JOSE M. CANAS TO LAMAR
[Translation from the Spanish]
San Jose [Costa Rica] October 30, 1858.
Sm, His Excellency, the Honorable President of this Republic desiring to give to the Honorable General Lamar a testimony of the apprecia- tion with which he regards him and to see him assembled with some of the native sons and principal residents of this City, has, with such object, arranged to give to His Excellency the Honorable Minister of the United States a Banquet which will take place at the "Hotel de San Jose" on the first of the next month, November, at four in the after- noon, and he has charged me to join him in requesting of Your Ex- cellency that you deign to accept this slight demonstration. I have the honor of signing myself for the first time the Hon. Gen. Lamar's Very Attentive Servant JOSE M. CANAS [Rubricl To His Excellency General Mirabeau B. Lamar Minister of the U. S. &c.&c.&c.
No. 2691. LAMAR TO JOSE MARIA CANAS
Legation of the United-States in Costa Rica. San Jose 30th. October 1858.
Sm.
I have received your Excellency's note of this date, inviting me to partake of a Banquet which his Excellency the worthy President of the Republic has ordered in honor of the Minister Resident of the United States near this Government. Your Excellency will please in- form the President that I shall be most happy to unite with him and his friends on that occasion at the hour and place designated.- I accept the compliment in the name of my nation; and in its behalf, I beg leave to assure His Excellency the President that so distinguished an honor to its humble representative cannot fail to be hailed by it as the harbinger of concord & confidence between two countries which have so many reasons to be friends and none to be otherwise. In tendering my official appreciation and personal regards to the worthy President, your Excellency will please accept the same for yourself. I have the honor to be very respectfully your most obedient servant. [M:rnABEAU B. LAMAR]
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