Noyes to By the President: Wm. M. Evarts, July 15, 1880

No. 238. Mr. Noyes to Mr. Evarts.

Sir: I have the honor to submit herewith a box containing a document elegantly engrossed and signed by the members of the Franco-American Union at Paris, which is an official notification to their American friends of the fact that the success of the work undertaken by the Franco-American Union is now assured, and that the colossal statue of liberty offered by France to be erected in the harbor of New York will be terminated in 1883. It is accompanied by a letter addressed to yourself as president of the Franco-American committee in New York by Mr. Edouard Laboulaye, president of the committee here, and also signed by several other gentlemen, including Senator Bozerian, Henry Martin, and Oscar de Lafayette, giving an account of the progress and success of the enterprise, and requesting that it be communicated to the committee in New York, of which you are president, and Mr. Richard Butler, secretary.

The inclosed pamphlet, “Notice sur l’Union Franco-Américaine,” gives on pages 1, 2, and 3 the organization of the French and American committees.

I have, &c.,