Letter

Drouyn de Lhuys to Mon. W. S. Pennington, First Secretary of the Legation of the United States of America, December 3, 1864

Author

Drouyn de Lhuys

Recipient

Mon. W. S. Pennington, First Secretary of the Legation of the United States of America

Date

December 3, 1864

Type

Letter

Language

English

[Translation.]

Mr. Drouyn de Lhuys to Mr. Pennington

Paris, December 3, 1864.

Sir: The information which you have done me the honor to communicate to me, of the decease of the Hon. William L. Dayton, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of the United States of America at Paris, has caused me a keen and deep affliction. I hastened to inform the Emperor of the sad event, which nothing could have foreseen. His Majesty has felt it only the more since he bore a particular esteem for this minister. For my part, I have been able to appreciate personally the qualities, the talents, and the experience of Mr. Dayton, and I make it a duty to express here the sincere regrets which his loss has caused.

Receive, sir, the assurances of the most distinguished consideration with which I have the honor to be, your very humble and very obedient servant,

DROUYN DE LHUYS.

Mon. W. S. Pennington, First Secretary of the Legation of the United States of America.

Topics

19th Century Civil War Diplomacy

Sources

FRUS u2014 Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the First Session Thirty-ninth C View original source ↗

U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the First Session Thirty-ninth C.