De Varigny to Z. S. Spaulding, Acting Chargé d’Affaires of the United States of America, July 3, 1868

Mr. de Varigny to Mr. Spaulding.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of to-day’s date, presenting through me to his Hawaiian Majesty’s government, in the name of the United States, a copy of the “Tributes of the Nations to Abraham Lincoln.”

I beg to tender to you, and through you to the government of the United States, the thanks of his Majesty’s government for this handsome memento of the late revered and lamented President of the United States, and I most heartily agree with you in the belief that the reverence felt and paid to his memory by the Hawaiian government and people can but intensify those relations of friendship and amity which have so happily marked the intercourse between the two nations.

I renew to you the assurances of the very distinguished consideration with which I remain your very obedient servant,