DEPARTMENT OF STATE                     
 
                            WASHINGTON                      
 
                          March 18. 1942                    
 
                                                            
 
 
                   My dear Mr. President:                   
 
      The Embassy at London has telegraphed under date of March 16 
      that your letter to Mr. Churchill, which was enclosed with the 
      Department's instruction of February 16, had been delivered to 
      him and that he wished you to know that he had read it with great 
                            interest.                       
 
                                                            
 
 
The letter came to the Department from the White House sealed 
      and merely with instructions that it will be forwarded to the 
           Prime Minister so I do not know the subject.     
 
                                                            
 
 
                     Faithfully yours,                      
 
                          Summer Welles                     
 
                                                            
 
 
                       The President,                       
 
      The White House.