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

Mr. Seward to Mr. Burlingame

No. 49.]

Department of State, Washington, February 8, 1864.

Sir: The duplicate of your despatch of November 7, (No. 56,) which was sent by way of Russia, has been received.

How entirely it is approved you will learn from the copy, which I transmit to you, of a despatch which the paper has elicited from this department to Mr. Adams, the United States minister at London.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

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

(Note.—For enclosure see despatch to Mr. Adams, No. 839, present series.)