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

Mr. Seward to Mr. Dayton.

No. 420.]

Department of State, Washington, October 24, 1863.

Sir: I have to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch of the 2d instant, (No. 356,) communicating a copy of a note of the 1st instant, addressed by you to Mr. Drouyn de l’Huys, relative to the proposed manning of the Florida in a French port with a crew brought thither from a British port. Your course in the matter is approved.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

William L. Dayton, Esq., &c., &c., &c.