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

Mr. Seward to Viscount Treilhard.

Department of State, Washington, August 13, 1862.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of yesterday, relative to the issuing of orders for the purpose of facilitating communications between the French legation here and the consulate of France at Richmond, and to state that a translation of it has been sent to the Secretary of War, with a request that he will be pleased to comply with your wishes on the subject.

I avail myself of this opportunity to renew to you, sir, the assurance of my high consideration.

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

Viscount Treilhard, &c., &c., &c.