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. Morris

No. 48.]

Department of State, Washington, January 17, 1863.

Sir: Your despatch of December 18 (No. 41) has been received. The correspondence between yourself and the minister of France, which accompanies the paper, contains new and gratifying proofs of your zeal and diligence in the prosecution of the Turkish assassins of the American missionary, and is approved.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

E. Joy Morris, Esq., &c., &c., &c., Constantinople.