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

[Extract.]

Mr. Seward to Mr. Thayer.

No. 29.]

Department of State, Washington, February 26, 1864.

Sir: Your despatch of January 23, No. 44, has been received; and the information it communicates relative to the cotton crop in Egypt and various other subjects has been read with much interest.

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I am, sir, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

William S. Thayer, Esq., &c., &c., &c., Alexandria.