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. Burlingame

No. 42.]

Department of State, Washington, September 18, 1863.

Sir: Recurring to your No. 33, of the 29th of January last, I have now to inform you that the autograph letter of the Emperor of China to the President of the United States, to which it refers, has been received by the President with sincere satisfaction.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

Anson Burlingame, Esq., &c., &c., &c.