Letter from Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain to President Gerald R. Ford Accepting an Invitation to Make a State Visit for the American Bicentennial

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JE DIEU E WINDSOR CASTLE 19th June, 1975. Dear Dr. President, Thank you for your letter of 27th May inviting me and my husband to pay a State Visit to the United States from 7th to 11th July, 1976, on the occasion of your country's Bicentennial celebrations We were delighted to receive this kind invitation which we gladly accept. We look forward with pleasure to meeting you and Mrs. Ford and, with happy memories of previous visits to the United States, welcome the opportunity to see more of your country and the American people. I am confident that our visit will help to strengthen the ties of friendship between our two countries. With cordial good wishes. Im sincere fren's rune a The Honourable Gerald R. Ford, President of the United States of America.