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. 6.]

Department of State, Washington, December 27, 1864.

Sir: Mr. Pennington’s despatch of the 7th, No. 3, has been received, and I perform an agreeable duty in approving of the communication he made to the imperial government on the occasion of the death of Mr. Dayton, and in making known to you that the President is highly gratified with the friendly and sympathetic manner in which Mr. Drouyn de Lhuys accepted the intelligence of that event, so deeply deplored by the government and people of the United States.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

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