Woodrow Wilson to George Frederick V

Colonel House.
The Army.
Your Majesty's kind letter which Prince Arthur of Connaught was kind enough to hand me gave me a great deal of pleasure. You may be sure that the generous message of friendship which it conveyed met with a very warm response in my sentiments towards yourself and the great people for whom you speak. It has been delightful and inspiring to feel the temper of our people here as it has responded to the duties of the great task to which with your own people we have now set our hands. You have yourself evidently felt it in the American sailors with whom you have talked. It is not a mere spirit of adventure. It is a high spirit of duty. It is an eagerness to fight for the deepest conviction of our lives. And I am sure that I am speaking for my fellow countrymen when I say that it is a deep satisfaction to know that we are standing shoulder to shoulder with the people of the indomitable English lands who hold like convictions with our own of right and justice and liberty. I am glad that you have known Colonel House and have had an opportunity to learn from him at first hand just what our spirit and our principles are. May I not express the earnest hope that as these trying months of comradeship in this tremendous struggle go by the two great nations and the men who guide them may be drawn closer and closer together in a keen understandingand cooperation. The victory is certain if we but keep the conviction true. It was a great pleasure to meet your cousin Prince Arthur of Connaught and to know him for the sincere and straightforward gentleman he is. Please accept my assurances of sincere friendship. I hope that some day we may meet face to face and that I may have the same opportunity that Colonel House has had to make you feel with what genuine and unaffected sentiment I can subscribe myself.

Your sincere friend
Woodrow Wilson

There are several notes in different handwriting from the letter itself at the end that read as follows:
[Mrs. Whalen's transcription, made under direction of R. S. Baker]
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[To George V of England]