Juno 4th, 1938.
Sr. Jo Keruondeno,
Spanish Consul,
P. 0, Box 5074,
Ybor City Station,
Tampa, Florida,
My doer 3r. Horuendano:
Replying to your nice letter of May 29th. The Bt. Augustin* people are now suggesting this monument eel obi's ti on ho joined in with the Ponoe do Boon oeiobrutiou next spring. nothing is settled, Inasmuch ub tho dato in Juno this year proved to he too early fox* tho completion of all the work tho oolohration was put off over tho summer to avoid the hast period. '.vo are now trying to carry on tho necoseury oonforonooo east and west to find a date that will ho suitable fox’ tho greatest number of people,
I sincerely hope this will ho at a period that will accommodate your convenience.
0 Hay X ask thut while you ore in Spain and with your Government you do v;hat you con to enlist every cooperation possible.	Pundu&entally,
we recognise the achievements of that Spanish period in this purt of Aleriou as a grout period. Tho Spanish works and legends still among uo arc wonderfully interesting, Tho American peoplo know vox*y little about this history ox* of thoso old missions, aqueducts, colonisations ena explorations. we would like at this celebration to soo the ximeriaan end the Spanish Governments join in emphasising this old Spanish period end its relics. no are sooking a detail of Spanish and American naval boats; there will be no difficulty having the American navy represented.
Letters and considerable information have been sout to your Premier do Rivera and also to the Marquis de los Arcos in Madrid and to the Marquis de Hotella, President of tho Spanish Government by Spanish gentlemen who took pride and interest in this work und called hero and themselves uskod if they might cooporate in tills way.
It may interest you to know that Spanish art end arohlteoturi