Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the First Session Thirty-ninth Congress

Mr. Seward to Mr. Bigelow

No. 295.]

Department of State, Washington, October, 31, 1865.

Sir: I acknowledge the receipt of your despatch of the 6th instant, No. 181, acquainting me with the gratifying manner in which the French press comment upon the course of the President, and our treatment of the rebel loan question.

I give you my thanks for your thoughtfulness.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

John Bigelow, Esq., &c., &c., &c.