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

Mr. Hunter to Mr. de Geofroy

Department of State, Washington, April 29, 1865.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 26th instant, transmitting a letter of condolence addressed to Mrs. Lincoln by French residents of Philadelphia, and a copy of their just and friendly resolutions adopted at a meeting of the French Society of Beneficence, held on the 22d instant, expressing the sentiments and sympathies inspired by the recent atrocities committed against the late President and the Secretary and Assistant Secretary of State.

I have the honor to inform you, in reply, that your request in regard to the disposition of these papers shall be complied with.

On behalf of the government of the United States, I must beg you to convey to Mr. Destonet, the president of the society, an expression of its grateful sense of the spirit manifested in their proceedings.

Accept, sir, a renewed assurance of my high consideration.

W. HUNTER, Acting Secretary.

Mr. L. de Geofroy, &c., &c., &c.