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[1] AES, DNA FS RG 59, Appointments, Box 373. Lincoln's endorsement is written on a letter to Seward from James S. Rollins, January 6, 1862[3], concerning activities of French Roman Catholics and the possibility of French intervention in the Sandwich Islands. The memorandum probably refers to the imminent replacement of Thomas J. Dryer by James McBride as commissioner to the Sandwich Islands on January 26, 1863. See Lincoln to Seward March 7 and 15, 1862, supra. Although Dryer seems to have been incompetent, his difficulties as commissioner were aggravated by the presence of former commissioner David L. Gregg, Lincoln's old friend whom President Pierce had appointed commissioner in 1853 and who remained in the Islands as adviser to King Kamehameha IV (Sumner to Lincoln, October 11, 1862, DLC-RTL).