On the day you open this you will be seventy years old. I cannot forbear writing you a line to express the obligation which all the American people are under to you. As a diplomat you have come in that class whose foremost exponents are Benjamin Franklin and Charles Francis Adams, and which numbers also in its ranks men like Morris, Livingston, and Pinckney. As a politician, as a publicist, and as a college president you have served your country as only a limited number of men are able to serve it. You have taught by precept, and you have taught by practice. We are all of us better because you have lived and worked, and I send you now not merely my warmest well-wishes and congratulations, but thanks from all our people for all that you have done for us in the past. Faithfully yours, (Signed) THEODORE ROOSEVELT. HON. ANDREW D. WHITE, U. S. Ambassador, Berlin, Germany. FROM THE SECRETARY OF STATE. NEWBURY, N. H., August 3, 1902. DEAR MR. WHITE: I have received your very kind letter of the 21st July, which is the first intimation I have had of your intention to resign your post of ambassador to Germany. I am sorry to hear the country is to lose your services in the place you have filled with such distinguished ability and dignity. It is a great thing to say--as it is simple truth to say it--that you have, during your residence in Berlin, increased the respect felt for America not only in Germany but in all Europe. You have thus rendered a great public service,--independent of all the details of your valuable work. The man is indeed fortunate who can go through a long career without blame, and how much more fortunate if he adds great achievement to blamelessness. You have the singular felicity of having been always a fighting man, and having gone through life without a wound. I congratulate you most on your physical and mental ability to enjoy the rest you have chosen and earned.... My wife joins me in cordial regards to Mrs. White, and I am always, Faithfully yours, (Signed) JOHN HAY. DEPARTMENT OF STATE, WASHINGTON, November 7, 1902. DEAR MR. WHITE: I cannot let the day pass without sending you a word of cordial congratulation on the beginning of what I hope will be the most delightful part of your life. Browning long ago sang, "The best is yet to be," and, certainly, if world-wide fame troops of friends, a consciousness of well-spent years, and a great career filled with righteous achievement are constituents of happiness, you have everything that the heart of man could wish. Yours faithfully, (Signed) JOHN HAY. His Excellency ANDREW D. WHITE, etc., etc., etc. FROM THE CHANCELLOR OF THE GERMAN EMPIRE. Wilhelm Str. 77. MY DEAR AMBASSADOR: