Noyes to Evarts, January 11, 1878

No. 113. Mr. Noyes to Mr. Evarts.

Sir: The minister of foreign affairs, Mr. Waddington, replying to my letter communicating your dispatch announcing the final adoption by Congress of the bill providing for the participation of the United States in the Universal Exhibition at Paris, and the appointment of Governor McCormick to be commissioner-general, says, in a letter just received, and dated yesterday:

It was particularly agreeable to me, General, to learn of the appointment of Mr. McCormick, who took so important a part in the organization of the Exhibition of Philadelphia. I hastened to notify the minister of agriculture and commerce of the fact, as well as the French commissioner-general, with whom Mr. McCormick can, from this time, put himself in direct relations in regard to all that concerns the accomplishment of his mission.

I have, &c.,