Pursuant to a resolution passed at the Society’s sitting on the 13th inst., we hereby sincerely congratulate you over, and warmly thank you for this your undertaking.
We hope to soon see in our midst the two illustrious travellers. The festal occasion would be complete were a correspondent of the New York “Herald” to find it convenient to be present at this reception in order to be tendered the expression of our gratitude at the very moment when we shall be welcoming the two greatest travellers of modern times—great, really, by their disinterested devotion to the noble cause of civilization.
We beg, sir, you will herewith accept the expression of our deep and heartfelt sympathy.
M. WAUWERMANS, President.
P. Genaud, Secretary-General.
Transcriber’s Note
The page numbering of the source document goes from xx (front matter) to 17 (body text); this has not been changed. Page numbers 229 and 230 are missing from the source document and from this e-text; this is merely a numbering error: the text itself is complete.
Inconsistent and archaic spelling (including the spelling of proper and geographical names and names of tribes and peoples), hyphenation, etc. have been retained, except when deviations from the book’s most common spelling of a word occurred very rarely only (see below). French accents have not been added or corrected.