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

Mr. Seward to Mr. Adams.

No. 875.]

Department of State, Washington, March 14, 1864.

Sir: I have to acknowledge, with much satisfaction, the receipt of your despatch of the 18th of February last, No. 600, in which you inform me that Mr. P. McD. Collins has succeeded in obtaining from the British government the right to continue his proposed telegraphic communications from Russia through the English possessions in northwestern America.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

Charles Francis Adams, &c., &c., &c,