Office of the Historian
No. 554.

Mr. Bayard to Mr. Foster.

Department of State,
Washington, August 4, 1885.
No. 384.]

Sir: It is the President’s especial desire that, in taking leave of His Majesty on the termination of your mission, you should find appropriate means of conveying the deep sympathy which the people of the United States, and this Government in their name, bear toward the sorrowing people of Spain by reason of the great calamity that now rests upon them, and express our prayerful hope that the dark cloud of pestilence may soon be lifted from the nation.

I am, &c.,

T. F. BAYARD.