Letter
Charles R. Lowell to Granville Leveson-Gower, January 12, 1883
[Inclosure 6 in No. 479.]
Mr. Lowell to Lord Granville.
Legation of the United States, London, January 12, 1883.
My Lord: I have the honor to acknowledge the reception of Mr. Currie’s note on behalf of your lordship of the 11th instant, with its inclosures, stating the fact of the exhumation of the remains of the late John Howard Payne at Tunis, and their shipment to the care of the United States consul at Marseilles, agreeably to the request of my Government, and I beg to express my most sincere thanks for your lordship’s courtesy in this matter, and for the promptness, delicacy, and efficiency with which Her Majesty’s consul-general at Tunis and other British officials have conducted this transaction.
I have, &c.,
J. R. LOWELL.
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U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the P.