Department Of State,
Washington, April 18th, 1863.
Samuel J. Kirkwood, Esq.,
Governor of Iowa, Iowa City.
Sir:—Your
letter of the 13th instant has been received, and the reasons you assign for
declining to accept the mission to Denmark, which has been tendered to you,
until the expiration of your term of service as Governor of Iowa, are entirely
satisfactory. You intimate, however, that it is possible these reasons may have
less weight with you some few months hence, and that you may then, perhaps,
feel at liberty to accept the appointment and to proceed to Copenhagen before
the close of your gubernatorial term. Under these circumstances, I see no
objection to your holding the appointment under consideration for a few months
at least.
I am, sir, your
obedient servant,
WILLIAM H. SEWARD.
SOURCE: Henry Warren Lathrop, The Life and Times of
Samuel J. Kirkwood, Iowa's War Governor, p. 277-8
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