No. 25.
The President to
the Princess Imperial, Regent of
Brazil.
[Telegram.]
Great and Good Friend: I duly received by telegraph the congratulation which your Imperial Highness was pleased to address to me on the occasion of the centenary anniversary of the Independence of the United States. The good wishes which you kindly offer for our continued prosperity are cordially reciprocated.
I pray God to have your Imperial Highness in His safe and holy keeping.
Written at Washington,
this
twenty-second day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and seventy-six, and of the Independence of the United
States the one hundred and first.
Your good friend,
U. S. GRANT.