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[i]The Sacred and God-granted Kingdom of Ulgyrikan[/i]
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[right]Friday 5th January, 1900[/right]

To His Imperial Highness, Emperor Rurn of the Empire of Volanth,

[indent]His Sacred Majesty was pleased to receive your letter and has instructed me to respond forthwith. While His Sacred Majesty unfortunately cannot be personally present at this World Fair, be assured that the President of the Board of Trade, the Right Honourable Dr Gerald William Balfour, will be present along with our finest engineers. The Sacred Kingdom will be pleased to display, along with other nations of the world, some of its most recent inventions and discoveries. International peace and harmony is the foremost desire of the Sacred Kingdom, and peace for all the inhabitants of the Earth, and such a Fair will certainly contribute to these lofty goals and aspirations. We thank His Imperial Highness for his initiative and this matter, and hope that we shall see many such initiatives in future.

Ambassador Johanson is most welcome to the Sacred Kingdom. We look forward to his arrival and to the commencement of discussions between our two nations. His Sacred Majesty is most desirous of putting any ill-will between our two nations aside, and fostering as much as is possible good relations and friendship. It is most heartening to see that His Imperial Highness' actions appear to be in line with the wishes of His Sacred Majesty. This can only bode well, and is a tremendous start to what promises to be a truly glorious century.[/indent]
Yours sincerely,
The Right Honourable Lord Francis Knollys, 1st Viscount Knollys, Private Secretary to the Sovereign