Correspondence Between President Harry S. Truman and Prime Minister of Canada Louis St. Laurent

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5838 February 26, 1949 My dear Mr. Prime Minister; I appreciated most highly your good letter of February seventeenth. By coincidence that date happened to be my daughter's twenty-fifth birthday. I was very much pleased with your visit - not only was it a personal enjoyment to me but our conversation, I think, will be very helpful to the United States and, I hope, also to Canada. I also appreciate most highly your invitation to me for another visit to your great country. I don't know what my situation will be, due to the fact that 1 have a new Congress in session, I must stay rather close to it except for a few days now and then for sleep and rest. I sincerely hope, however, that you will pay us another visit whenever you feel inclined, and I shall always have under consideration a trip to Canada, hoping that at some- time I can make it. Mrs. Truman was most happy to see you the day you were here and when I showed her your letter she asked to be remembered to you and I am sure my daughter would send you the same message were she at home. Sincerely yours, ARCHIVES 'NATIONAL RECORDS SERVICE" AND of BARRY S. TRUMAN is The Right Honorable Louis St. Laurent Prime Minister of Canada Ottawa Via State Dept. pouch.