Abraham Lincolns Thai elephants

In 1862 two letters were sent to Abraham Lincoln from the king of Siam King Mongkut (Modern day Thailand) asking if Lincoln wanted elephants from Thailand and a katana.
== Abraham Lincolns letter to King Mongkut ==
To King Siam
February 3, 1862
Abraham Lincoln,
Presdeint of the United States of America.
To His majesty Somdecth Phar Paramendr Maha Mongkut,
King of Siam,
Great and Good Friend: I have received Your Majesty's two letters of the date of February 14., 1861.
I have also Received in good condition the royal gift which accompanied those letters---namely a sword of costly materials and exquisite workmanship; a photographic likeness of your majesty and of your majesty beloved daughter; and also tow elephants' tusk of length and magnitude such as indicate that they could have belonged only to a animal which was a native of Siam. 
Your majesty's letters show an understanding that our laws forbid the president receiving these rich presents as personal treasures. they are therefore accepted in accordance with Your Majesty's desire as tokens of your good will and friendship for the American people. Congress being now in session at this capital, I have had great pleasure in making know to them manifestation of Your Majesty's munificence and kind consideration. 
Under their directions the gifts will be placed among the archives of the Government, where they will remain perpetually as tokens of mutual esteem and pacific dispositions more honorable to both nations than any trophies of conquest could be.
I appreciate mostly highly Your Majesty tender of good offices in forwarding to this Government a stock from which a supply of elephants might be raised on our soil. This Government would not hesitant to avail itself so generous an offer if the object were one which could be made practically useful in the present condition of the United States.
Our political jurisdiction, however, does not reach a latitude so low as to favor the multiplication of the elephants, and steam on land, as well as on water, has been our best and most efficient agent of transportation in internal commerce.
I shall have occasion at no distant day to transmit to Your Majesty some token of indication of the high sense which this Government entrains of Your Majesty's friendship.
Meantime, wishing for Your Majesty a long and happy life, and for the generous and emulous people of Siam the highest possible prosperity, I command both to the blessing of Almighty God.
Your good friend Abraham Lincoln 
Washington February 3, 1862. 
by the president: 
William H. Seward, Secretary of State Annotation.https://www.battlefields.org/learn/primary-sources/lincoln-rejects-king-siams-offer-elephants#:~:text=In%20one%20of%20the%20more,from%20the%20King%20of%20Siam.