Letter

Reade to Bayard Taylor, January 6, 1883

Author

Reade

Recipient

Bayard Taylor

Date

January 6, 1883

Type

Letter

Language

English

[Inclosure 4 in No. 479.]

Mr. Reade to Mr. Taylor.

Tunis, January 6, 1883.

Sir: I have the honor to inform you that, conformably with the instructions of Her Majesty’s principal secretary of state for foreign affairs, I this day shipped on board the French steam vessel Charles Quint, and to your consignment at Marseilles, a case covering three coffins, two being of wood and one of lead, the innermost of which contains the remains of John Howard Payne, the distinguished poet and dramatist of your nation, who died in this city on the 1st of April, 1852, while serving his country in the capacity of consul.

The exhumation of those remains took place yesterday, with all the required formalities; Mr. Worthington, the United States consul at Malta, being among those who were present on the occasion.

Two keys of the outer coffin are inclosed, which I beg you will have the goodness to forward to that coffin’s destination in the States.

I have, &c.,

THOS. F. READE.

Topics

19th Century Diplomacy Reconstruction

Sources

FRUS u2014 Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the P View original source ↗

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.