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the first diplomatic agent on whom the United States 

 had conferred that exalted rank, and by way of 

 reciprocity the British Minister at Washington, then 

 Sir Julian Pauncefote, was given a corresponding 

 status. While accredited to our Court Mr. Bayard 

 made innumerable friends, and did much to cement 

 the cordial relations between the two countries. He 

 entertained on a liberal scale, and was in addition a 

 good sportsman, a keen deer-stalker in the High- 

 lands, while his face was not unfamiliar at Epsom, 

 Ascot, and Newmarket Heath. His one infirmity 

 was a slight deafness. His death in September 

 1898 at Dedham, Massachusetts, deprived the 

 United States of one of their most high-minded, 

 cultivated, and refined citizens, and a warm admirer 

 of this country. The year before we went to 

 Washington Mr. Bayard had sustained two severe 

 domestic bereavements by the death of his wife 

 and daughter within a fortnight of one another. 



Mr. William L. Putnam was a tall, clean-shaven 

 gentleman of about fifty-six years of age, and a 

 Democrat. A lawyer by profession, he had acted as 

 Counsel for the United States for some two years in 

 numerous cases involving questions of Treaties and 

 laws arising out of the Fishery disputes, and he was 

 also Counsel for the Boston and Maine Railway 



