Mr. Porter to Mr. Hay.

No. 644.]

Sir: I have to acknowledge the receipt of your instruction No. 736, of February 21, transmitting a Lafayette memorial dollar given by the [Page 471] Secretary of the Treasury for the collection of the French mint. The coin was sent through the proper channel to the director of that establishment, who desires this embassy to express his thanks to the United States Government for this attention, and who states that this souvenir dollar was placed in the collection of the mint with a label indicating its origin.

I have, etc.,

Horace Porter.