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

[Translation.]

Viscount Treilhard to Mr. Seward.

Legation of France in the United States, Washington, August 12, 1862.

Sir: I request you, for the purpose of facilitating communications between this legation and the consulate of France at Richmond, to be pleased to give the necessary orders to the end that our letters may be received at Norfolk, where Mr. Paul can have them sent by an express, with the authority of the commanders of the federal forces, and that letters which Mr. Paul may cause to reach Norfolk by the same means may be forwarded to us at Washington, it being well understood that the packets thus exchanged shall contain nothing but French official letters.

Be pleased to accept, sir, the assurances of my very high consideration.

For the minister and by authority:

VTE. JULES TREILHARD, First Secretary of the Legation,