the sun was going down, they took their leave of the brilliant gathering in the Ranger, and steamed to Shanghai. The following letters were exchanged between General Grant and the King of Siam, the King of Hawaii and the Viceroy of Canton:

GRAND PALACE, Bangkok, April 20, 1879. MY DEAR GENERAL GRANT:

I received your kind telegram on leaving Siam, and was very much pleased to hear that you were satisfied with your reception.

Your reception was not all I could have wished, for I had not sufficient notice to enable me to prepare much that I desired to prepare, but the good nature of Your Excellency and Mrs. Grant has made you excuse the deficiencies.

You will now pass on to wealthier cities and more powerful nations, but I depend on your not forgetting Siam, and from time to time I shall write to you, and hope to receive a few words in reply.

I shall certainly never forget the pleasure your visit has given me, and shall highly prize the friendships thus inaugurated with Your Excellency and Mrs. Grant.

I send my kind regards to Mr. Borie, wishing him long life, health and happiness, and with the same wish to yourself and Mrs. Grant and your family,

I am your faithful friend,

To General Grant.

CHULALONKORN, King of Siam.

UNITED STATES STEAMer Ashuelot,
NEAR SHANGHAI, May 16, 1879.

TO HIS MAJEsty The King OF SIAM.

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Dear Sir: Just before leaving Hong Kong for Shanghai, I received your very welcome letter of the 20th of April, and avail myself of the first opportunity of replying. I can assure you that nothing more could have been done by Your Majesty and all those about you, to make the visit of myself and party pleasant and agreeable. Every one of us will retain the most pleasant recollections of our visit to Siam, and of the cordial reception we received from yourself and all with whom we were thrown in contact.

I shall always be glad to hear from you, and to hear of

ARRIVAL AND RECEPTION OF EX-PRESIDENT GRANT AT SHANGHAI.

the prosperity and progress of the beautiful country over which you rule with so much justice and thought for the

ruled.

My party are all well, and join me in expression of highest regards for yourself and Cabinet, and wishes for long life, health and happiness to all of you, and peace and prosperity to Siam. Your friend,

U. S. GRANT.

TOLANI HALL, HONOLULU, HAWAIIAN ISLANDS, Feb. 18, 1879. Dear Sir: The public newspapers give me the information that you are at present on your passage to the East, and are intending to return to the Unitd States across the Pacific Ocean. When I was in the United States during your Presidency, you manifested such interest in the prosperity of my kingdom, that I am proud to think it will not be uninteresting to you to observe the progress we have made, and the general state of the country.

I will not remind you that other travelers have found the natural features of the islands, and more especially their volcanic phenomena, interesting, and I entertain a hope that if you accept the invitation which I now tender to you to visit us, as a guest of myself and this nation, on your return to your native country, such a visit will be a pleasant rememberance to you.

For myself, it will afford me a great gratification to receive and entertain you, and my people will be proud to do everything in their power to make your visit agreeable. I am your friend, KALAKUA.

To General U. S. Grant.

UNITED STATES STEAMER ASHUELOT,
NEAR SHANGHAI, May 16, 1879. S

HIS MAJESTY, KING KALAKAUA.

Dear Sir: On the eve of my departure from Hong Kong for Shanghai, China, I was put in possession of your very polite invitation of the 18th of February for me to visit your kingdom, and to be the guest of Your Majesty. I can assure you that it would afford me the greatest pleasure to accept your invitation if I could do so. I have always felt the greatest desire to visit the Hawaiian Islands, and cannot say positively yet that I may not be able to do so. But it will be impossible for me to give a

positive answer until I get to Japan and learn of the running of the vessels between Yokohama and Honolulu, and between the latter place and San Francisco.

I shall visit Pekin before going to Japan, and remain in the latter country a month or six weeks. As soon as it is determined whether I am to have the pleasure of visiting your most interesting country or not, I will inform you. Hoping that I may be able to go, Your friend,

TO HIS EXCEllency, the LATE PRESIDENT:

U. S. GRANT.

It has been a high honor and a source of the deepest satisfaction to myself, the high provincial authorities and the gentry and people of Canton, that Your Excellency, whom we have so long desired to see, has been so good as to come among us.

Upon learning from you of your early departure, while I dared not interfere to delay you, I had hoped, in company with my associates, to present my humble respects at the moment of your leaving. I refrained from doing so in obedience to your command.

I have ventured to send a few trifles to your honored wife, which I hope she will be so kind as to accept.

I trust that you both will have a prosperous journey throughout all your way, and that you both may be granted many years and abundant good. Should I ever be honored by my sovereign with a mission abroad, it will be my most devout prayer and earnest desire that I may meet you again.

I respectfully wish you the fulness of peace.
LIU KUN.

UNITED STATES STEAMER ASHUELOT, NEAR SHANGHAI, China, May 16, 1879. S HIS EXCELLENCY, THE VICEROY OF KWANGTUNG AND KWANGHAI. Dear Sir: Before leaving Hong Kong for more extended visits through the Celestial Empire, I was placed in possession of your very welcome letter giving expression to the best wishes of Your Excellency and of all the high officials in Canton for myself and mine. Since then it has been my good fortune to visit Swatow and Amoy, both, I understand, under Your Excellency's government, and have received at each the same distinguished reception accorded at Canton. Myself and party will carry with us from China