Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the First Session Thirty-eighth Congress, Part II

Mr. Seward to Mr. Burlingame

[No. 26.]

Department of State, Washington, February 4, 1863.

Sir: Your despatch of October 27 (No. 27) has been received.

Your proceedings in regard to the appointment of a successor to General Ward are approved of. You will express to Prince Kung the President’s sincere satisfaction with the honors which the Emperor of China has decreed to be paid to the memory of our distinguished citizen. He fell while illustrating the fame of his country in an untried, distant, and perilous field. His too early death will, therefore, be deeply mourned by the American people.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

Anson Burlingame, Esq., &c., &c., &c.