Mr. Seward to Mr. Wood.
Sir:Herewith I enclose a transcript of a letter addressed to this department by Dr. Durbin, corresponding secretary of the Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal church, dated at New York, on the 30th ultimo, in which it is requested that you be instructed to ask the government of Denmark to concede to that church in the Danish kingdom, and particularly in Copenhagen, the same liberty that is granted there to the English, French, German, Catholic, and other foreign churches. This request appears to me to be unobjectionable, and you are, therefore, directed to comply with it by addressing a note to the Danish minister for foreign affairs, asking that privileges similar to those which are accorded to all other Christian denominations in Denmark may be granted to the Methodist Episcopal church.
I am, sir, your obedient servant,
Bradford R. Wood, Esq., &c., &c., &c., Copenhagen.