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

[Extract.]

Mr. Clay to Mr. Seward

No. 86.]

Legation of the United States, St. Petersburg, Russia, September 5, 1865.

Sir: I have received your despatches to No. 166 inclusive, together with a copy of the letters of the Union Telegraph Company to yourself and to M. Tolstoy, the chief of the Russian telegraph department.

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I am, truly, your most obedient servant,

C. M. CLAY.

Hon. William H. Seward, Secretary of State, Washington, D. C