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quainted with our present minister there,
though I once appointed him to a South
American mission. U. S. G."
"PARIS, FRANCE, June 3, 1878.
"MY DEAR MR. CRAMER: Your letter
of the 3Ist of May is just received. I
should have written to you within a day
or two to inform you of a slight change of
plan, which will bring me to Copenhagen
from ten days to two weeks later than I
wrote you I should be there, even if I had
not received your letter. To save retracing
my steps, as I should be obliged to do by
the routes laid out in my last letter, I now
intend to go from The Hague to Berlin,
and visit a few German cities before going
to Denmark. From Copenhagen I shall
go by water to Norway, thence to Sweden,
St. Petersburg, Moscow, and to Vienna.
"I shall be very glad indeed to see
Mary and the. children, and hope they
may be back by the time I reach Copen