Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the First Session Thirty-ninth Congress

Mr. Seward to Mr. Bigelow

No. 35.]

Department of State, Washington, February 7, 1865.

Sir: I have to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch of the 20th ultimo, No. 7, concerning the purchase and equipment of the Shanghai and San Francisco for the Peruvian navy, and their subsequent departure, and informing me that the purchase for the Peruvian government of a vessel built at Glasgow for the insurgents was the subject of a negotiation which was depending on the news to come from America, which might render it impossible for the projected ship to sail under the Peruvian flag.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

John Bigelow, Esq., &c., &c., &c.