File No. 123.R27/74.

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No. 1126.

The body of the late Ambassador will be conducted from Dorchester House with military escort on Saturday morning, December 21st, at ten o’clock. The British cruiser Natal will bear the body, sailing from Portsmouth Saturday afternoon, to arrive at New York on the morning of January third. Mrs. Reid asks me to say that nothing could exceed in kindness the English care and the thoughtfulness of the Government and all classes of the community.

Laughlin.