Sen. Sumner (Mass.) calls on President and shows him letter from Duchess of Argyll, who believes that speech at Gettysburg will live. Memorandum Concerning the Duchess of Argyll, 22 March 1865, CW, 8:371-72.

John Hay has been appointed secretary of legation at Paris and will probably reach there in month or six weeks. John Bigelow, Retrospections of an Active Life, 5 vols. (New York: Baker & Taylor, 1909-13), 2:430.