Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Third Session of the Fortieth Congress, Part I

Mr. Moran to Mr. Seward

No. 89.]

Legation of the United States, London, August 5, 1868.

Sir: I had the honor some time since to receive from the department the 12 cases containing 357 copies of the work entitled “Tributes of the Nations to Abraham Lincoln,” referred to in your dispatch No. 8, of the 2d of June, together with the letters from yourself intended to be delivered with them. Seeing from the size of the volumes that it would be necessary to send many of them by rail to their destinations in different parts of the three kingdoms, I drew up a brief circular which I caused to be addressed to the individuals and corporations for whom your letters and the books were intended, stating to each when and by what channel the volume would be sent, and saying that the replies to your notes might be committed to me for transmission to Washington.

I now have the honor to forward herewith all the acknowledgments received up to this time, together with a list of the same, and a copy of the circular which I sent out with your letters. These constitute about one-sixth of all that may be expected. The remainder shall be sent forward, as rapidly as they come to hand.

I have the honor to be, sir, your obedient servant,

BENJAMIN MORAN.

Hon. William H. Seward, Secretary of State, Washington, D. C.

List of acknowledgments of receipts of “Tributes of Nations to Abraham Lincoln.”

Municipal council, Burntisland.

Herald and West Coast Advertiser, Ardrossau.

Municipal council, Warwick.

Town commissioners, Hartlepool, (2 notes.)

Chamber of Commerce, Guernsey.

Newmilus Anti-slavery Society, (2 notes.)

American Chamber of Commerce, Liverpool.

Local Board of Health, Rughley.

Municipal council, Gloucester.

Municipal council, Cardigan, (2 notes.)

Inhabitants of Wolverhampton, (2 notes.)

Municipal council, Northampton.

Editors of Spectator, London.

Commissioners of supply, Elgin.

Inhabitants of Belfast.

Sons of Temperance, Manchester.

Members of the Merchants’ House, Glasgow.

Municipal council, Bridgeworth.

Chamber of Commerce, Sheffield.

The Earl of Derby.

Chamber of Commerce, Hull.

Inhabitants of Ipswich.

Local Board of Health, Heckmondwike.

Wesleyan ministers, Belfast.

Municipal council, Rothsay,

Municipal council, Pollockshaws.

Committee of deputies of the British Jews, (2 notes.)

Municipal council, Liverpool.

Financial Reform Association, Liverpool.

Municipal council, Ashton-under-lyne.

Stowbridge Union.

Editor of the Leeds Mercury.

Inhabitants of Leeds.

Municipal council, Grantham.

Municipal council, Dewsbury.

Inhabitants of Cardiff.

Municipal council, Stockton-on-Tees.

Inhabitants of Brighton.

Municipal council, Scarborough.

Cutlers’ Company, Sheffield.

Municipal council, Doncaster.

Salt Chamber of Commerce, Northwich.

Inhabitants of Bournemouth, (2 notes.)

Editor of Evening Standard, London.

Vestry of the Parish of St. Luke, Chelsea.

Editors of Daily Telegraph, London, (2 notes.)

American residents, Dundee.

Lord Stratford de Radcliffe.

Temple Discussion Forum.

Editor of Daily News, London,

Vicar and St. Martin-in-the-Fields, London

Bank of England, London.

Editor of the Times, London.

Editor of Morning Star, London.

Municipal council, London.

Covent Garden Theatrical Fund.

Bank of British Columbia, (2 notes.)

Inhabitants of Swansea.

Chamber of Commerce, Dewsbury.

Editor of the Examiner, Carlisle.

Thomas Barras, Baptist minister.

Municipal council, Millfield.

John W. Mathews, General Baptist minister.

Wednesbury Local Board of Health.

Anglesea Baptist association, Coventry.

Inhabitants of Darlington.

Inhabitants of Kingston-upon-Hull, (2 notes.)

Peterborough Improvement Commissioners, (2 notes.)

Commissioners of supply of the county of Roxbury.

Commissioners of supply, county Lanark.

House of Lords, (4 notes.)

Miss Grace W. Lees, Northampton.

List of newspapers containing reference to the “Tributes of Nations to Abraham Lincoln.”

The Scotsman, July 31, 1868.

The Carlisle Examiner and Northern Advertiser, August 1, 1868.

The Glasgow Daily Herald, July 31, 1868.

The Evening Standard, July 28, 1868.

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Legation of the United States, London, July 23, 1868.

Mr. Moran, chargé d’affaires of the United States at London, presents his compliments to —————— ——————, and has the honor to transmit herewith a letter from the Department of State at Washington city. He begs to say that the volume to which it refers will be sent through the channel named in the memorandum below.

Mr. Moran will be pleased to receive and forward to his government an acknowledgment of the reception of the letter and volume in question.