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. 94.]

Department of State, Washington, November 18, 1864.

Sir: Your despatch and its accompaniments of the 15th of August last, No. 90, relative to the fall of Nanking, and your correspondence with the imperial government regarding the matter, have been received with great satisfaction.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

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