Mr. Dix to Mr. Seward
Sir: Admiral Farragut has been in this city for some days, and will leave to-day for Cherbourg. I have done ail in my power to make his visit pleasant to him. He dined the day before yesterday with the Emperor, who invited some of the high officers of the government to meet him. I was also invited with them. The Empress has been in England some days on a visit to the Queen, and the admiral was preparing to pay her the proper honors at Cherbourg, where she was expected on Saturday, when he received the Emperor’s invitation to dinner on the same day. He has made a very favorable impression here, as he does wherever he goes.
I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
Hon. William H. Seward, Secretary of State, Washington, D. C.