Mr. Gresham to Senhor Mendonça.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 25th instant announcing the death in this city on that date of Baron [Page 144] de Aguiar de Andrada, chief of the Brazilian special mission to the United States.

It is with deep regret that I receive this information, and I beg to express the sincere sympathy felt by the President in the death of this distinguished citizen of Brazil.

Accept, etc.,

W. Q. Gresham.