Letter

JOHN HAY, Charge d’Affaires ad interim to William H. Seward, August 24, 1866

Author

JOHN HAY, Charge d’Affaires ad interim

Recipient

William H. Seward

Date

August 24, 1866

Type

Letter

Language

English

Mr. Hay to Mr. Seward

No. 361]

Legation of the United States, Paris, August 24, 1866.

Sir: The Princess Charlotte, of Mexico, left Paris yesterday for Miramar. She received on Wednesday the visit of the Emperor and Empress of France, and at her departure was conveyed to the railway station in the Emperor’s carriage. In spite of these flattering attentions, and the cordiality with which she was received at St. Cloud, I am informed she sets out from Paris with no reason to congratulate herself upon having come.

Her proceeding to Miramar before going to Brussels, taken in connection with the more significant fact that during her stay in Paris no member of her immediate family has visited her, would seem to indicate a certain coolness in her relations with her brothers of the royal house of Belgium.

I am, sir, very respectfully your obedient servant,

JOHN HAY, Charge d’Affaires ad interim.

Hon. William H. Seward, Secretary of State, Washington, D. C.

Topics

19th Century Diplomacy Reconstruction

Sources

FRUS u2014 Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Second Session of the Thirty 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 Second Session of the Thirty.