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

Mr. Seward to Mr. Bigelow

No. 5.]

Department of State, Washington, December 26, 1864.

Sir: Mr. Pennington’s despatch of the 7th of December, No. 2, has been received, and I have read with mingled emotions of sorrow and pride the description it gives of the tributes so worthily paid in Paris by the government of the Emperor and the foreign legations, and the press of the metropolis, to the memory of William L. Dayton, esq., our late minister to France.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM,H. SEWARD,

John Bigelow, Esq., &c., &c., &c.