Similar letters were addressed to Messrs. Thierry, second category, first subdivision, No. 17; Leon Richer, second category, first subdivision, No. 8; Perrot, second category, third subdivision, No. 2; A. Lacoste, second category, first subdivision, No. 21; Laverriere, second category, first subdivision, No. 13; Bourgeon fils, second category, first subdivision, No. 18; Bailleux, second category, first subdivision, No. 11; Massol, second category, second subdivision, No. 4; Audieu, second category, first subdivision, No. 22; Coutherat, second category, first subdivision, No. 20; Lesueur, second category, first subdivision, No. 15; Thelmier, first category, first subdivision, No. 2; La Flize, second category, first subdivision, No. 19; Guillet, second category, first subdivision, No. 4; Demure, second category, first subdivision, No. 14; Campagno, second category, second subdivision, No. 10; Dr. Gerault, second category. first subdivision, No. 20; Lodges of Tours, second category, first subdivision, No. 16; Thirifocq, second category, first subdivision, No. 23; Eliot, second category, first subdivision, No. 23; Soubert, second category, first subdivision, No. 24; Maillier, second category, first subdivision, No. 25; A. Bourgeaux, second category, second subdivision, No. 9; Roux, second category, second subdivision, No. 14; Guilbert, second cate▾ gory, first subdivision, No. 26. [Translation.] Mr. Bigelow to M. Khan. PARIS, May 12, 1865. Mr. CHARGÉ D'AFFAIRES: I have the honor to acknowledge the reception of your despatch dated the 9th instant. I will hasten to transmit to President Johnson the very sympathizing communication which you have been pleased to address to him through my intervention in the name of his Imperial Majesty the Shah of Persia. You may be sure that my country and its government will learn with cordial satisfaction the part which your august sovereign takes in our national mourning. Accept, Mr. Chargé d'Affaires, the assurance of my very high consideration. His Excellency SULEYMAN KHAN, JOHN BIGELOW. Chargé d'Affaires of his Imperial Majesty the Shah of Persia, at Paris, &c., &c. Mr. Bigelow to Mr. Pelatte. (3d category, No. 30.) PARIS, May 13, 1865. SIR: I am in receipt of your favor of the 10th instant, covering an address from the Americans resident at Nice to the President of the United States. I shall lose no time in transmitting it, agreeably to their request and yours. Mr. LEON PELATTE. JOHN BIGELOW. [Translation.] Mr. Bigelow to Mr. Charpentier. (2d category, first subdivision, No. 3.) PARIS, May 15, 1865. SIR: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter dated 10th May, and of the enclosure accompanying it, which I will hasten, in conformity with your desire, to forward to the address you have indicated to me. Nothing can be more consoliug to my compatriots, in the midst of our national mourning, than to learn how much their sorrow is shared in Europe, and I pray you to become the organ to the lodge "The Friends of Order" in Paris of all my gratitude for the sympathy which it sends to my country and to its government. Accept, sir, the assurance of my very distinguished sentiments. Mr. CHARPENTIER. JOHN BIGELOW. [Translation.] Mr. Bigelow to Mr. Lesperut (3d category, No. 33.) PARIS, May 17, 1865. SIR: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 12th, and of the bi ographical notice of the life of Mr. Abraham Lincoln which accompanied it. I pray you to receive all my thanks, and to believe in my most distinguished and most earnest regard. JOHN BIGELOW. Mr. LESPERUT. [Translation.] Mr. Bigelow to Mr. Mongel Bey. (3d category, No. 15.) LEGATION OF THE UNITED STATES, Mr. PRESIDENT: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of the letter of the international committee for establishing the American canal by the isthmus of Darien over which you preside. You will much oblige me by transmitting to your colleagues my thanks for the sympathy whereof you send me so precious tokens, on the occasion of our great national mourning. I take pleasure in assuring you of the interest I feel in the success of enterprises which, like yours, are dest ned to render more easy the communication between different portions of the American continent, and by consequence to draw more close the ties of amity which unite their inhabitants. Accept, sir, the expressions of my most distinguished sentiments. Mr. MONGEL BEY. JOHN BIGELOW. [Translation.] Mr. Bigelow to Mr. Cochin. PARIS, May 19, 1865. DEAR SIR: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter dated 17th, as well as of the address which you are pleased to ask me to send to the President of the United States in the name of the French Committee of Emancipation. In conformity with your wish that document has already been transmitted to its destination. The President will receive with lively satisfaction the testimonial of sympathy of an assemblage of men who figure among the most eminent leaders of public opinion in Europe, and their enlightened counsels will certainly be received with the deference due to the source from which they emanate, and the more so as they only reflect faithfully the policy deliberately determined on and constantly followed by my government from the beginning of the rebellion. I have no need to tell you what price the President and the people of the United States will attach to the efforts of which this address is the first fruit, and which tends to spread among the people the teachings of which the late insurrection in America has been so fruitful. I have no need, either, to assure you of the cordiality with which I am disposed to join my co-operation to that of men so, happily inspired. I shall be proud to associate my humble services to those of an association as capable as that of which you are the organ, DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. of carrying out in good faith the noble enterprise to the success of which its members have Accept, dear sir, the assurance of my most distinguished and most cordial regard. Mr. A. COCHIN. P. S. I will do myself the pleasure of sending to you, at the earliest, the names you have done me the honor to ask for. Mr. Bigelow to Mr. Davison. (3d category, No. 2.) UNITED STATES LEGATION, Paris, May 24, 1865. SIR: I have received the address of the citizens of Paw which, at the request of your consular agent at that place, you were good enough to send me. archives of the legation. Yours, very respectfully, C. DAVISON, Esq., United States Consul at Bordeaux. It will be placed among the JOHN BIGELOW. [Translation.] Mr. Bigelow to Mr. E. de Magnin. (1st category, No. 4.) LEGATION OF THE UNITED STATES, SIR: I have the honor to acknowledge the reception of your letter dated 20th instant, and of the address of the Pastoral Conference of the Drome and the Ardeche to Mrs. Lincoln. You may count upon the gratitude with which the Christian spirit of the widow of our lamented President will receive the expressions of sympathy and the very touching consolations with which you have been pleased to charge me to transmit to her, and I pray you to accept my thanks, with the assurance, Mr. President, of my sentiments of high consideration. Mr. E. DE MAGNIN. JOHN BIGELOW. [Translation.] Mr. Bigelow to Mr. Viennet. (2d category, first subdivision, No. 12.) LEGATION OF THE UNITED STATES, SIR: Will you please to be the interpreter to the "Lodges of the Scotch Rite," of all the gratitude with which I have received the deeply sympathizing testimonial you have done me the honor to address to me in their name on the occasion of our great national mourning. I shall make it a duty to respond to the wishes you have manifested to me, by transmitting to President Johnson and Mrs. Lincoln the expression of sentiments which will affect them deeply. I avail of this occasion, sir, to say to you how much I congratulate myself on perceiving my country and its government so justly appreciated by men who, like you, are at the head of the republic of letters in Europe, and whose judgment is regarded as authority everywhere. Accept, sir, the assurance of my sentiments of high and affectionate consideration. JOHN BIGELOW. M. VIENNET, Member of the French Academy. [Translation.] Mr. Bigelow to Mr. Campadelli. (3d category, No. 61.) LEGATION OF the United STATES, SIR: I thank you for the verses you have been pleased to address to me, and I accept with thankfulness the expression of the sympathizing sentiments which they contain for my country and its government, on the occasion of our national mourning, and of the great trials we have just passed through. Accept, sir, the assurance of my very distinguished regards. Mr. CAMPADELLI. Similar letters were addressed to Messrs. Pierre Greil (3d category, No. 60.) Paul Thouzery, (3d category, No. 62.) JOHN BIGELOW. Mr. Bigelow to Mr. Chénier. (3d category, No. 66.) LEGATION OF THE UNITED STATES, Paris, May 29, 1865. SIR: I thank you for the piece of verse, “America and Lincoln," which you have pleased to address to me. I have been truly touched with the sympathizing homage which you have rendered with as much feeling as delicacy to the memory of our regretted President. Accept, sir, the assurances of my distinguished respect. Mr. CHENIER. JOHN BIGELOW. [Translation.] Mr. Bigelow to Madame Rivet. (3d category, No. 36.) LEGATION OF THE United States, MADAME: I have perused with the liveliest interest the touching verses that you have done me the honor to address to me on the occasion of the abominable crime of which Mr. Lincoln has been the victim. I beg you believe in all my gratitude for so precious a mark of sympathy as you have pleased to give to my country and to its government under this sad event. Accept, madame, the assurance of my most respectful regards, Madame BANET RIVET. JOHN BIGELOW. Mr. Bigelow to Mr. Lesley. (3d category, No. 31.) PARIS, June 6, 1865. DEAR SIR: I have received the address from the democrats of Lyons which you sent me, and will lose no time in transmitting it to the President. I am, dear sir, with great respect, your obedient servant, JAMES LESLEY, Esq., Consul of the United States. JOHN BIGELOW. [Translation.] Mr. Bigelow to Mr. Bloucourt. (3d category, No. 22.) LEGATION OF THE UNITED STATES, DEAR SIR: I have been profoundly touched by the very sympathizing terms in which the creoles of Guadaloupe have appreciated the loss which my country and government has undergone in the death of Mr. Lincoln. He merited their gratitude, for whilst he was the firm stay of humanity, he seemed to have been stirred up to become the special benefactor of the African race. Although the hand of a dastardly assassin sufficed to reduce to silence that voice ever ready to answer to the calls of humanity and of justice, it has not power enough to resist the immortal influence of his example and of his august martyrdom. In any civilized country slavery cannot long survive such a life crowned by such a death. I beg you, sir, to be so obliging as to transmit to your compatriots of Guadaloupe the expression of my grateful appreciation of their honorable sympathy, and accept the assurance of the high consideration with which I have the honor to be your very obedient servant, JOHN BIGELOW. Mr. MELVILLE BLOUCOURT. Mr. Bigelow to Mr. Cochin. LEGATION OF THE UNITED STATES, DEAR SIR: The address of the French Committee of Emancipation, which you desired me to communicate to the President of the United States, has been received. I am instructed to express to you the gratification he has derived from the evidence already furnished by your organization of the earnest desire of so respectable a body of French citizens to aid the people of the United States in their efforts to ameliorate the conditiou of that race which has suffered so long all the evils of slavery. In response to your request for publications tending to promote the objects of your committee, I transmit herewith the third annual report of the National Freedmen's Relief Association of the District of Columbia. I am, dear sir, with high consideration, your very obedient servant, Monsieur A. COCHIN. JOHN BIGELOW. [Translation.] I. N. Proeschel to the Rev. Messrs. Jaulmes and Pulsford. (1st category, No. 18.) LEGATION OF the United STATES, Paris, July 20, 1865. GENTLEMEN: The minister of the United States has charged me to acknowledge to you the reception of the address which you have been pleased to transmit to him in the name of the French Methodist conference, and to assure you of the pleasure with which he will endeavor to cause it to reach the widow of our lamented President. Accept, sir, the assurance of my most respectful consideration. I. N. PROESCHEL, Private Secretary. Messrs. Pastors G. JAULMES and L. PULSFORD. |