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

Mr. Seward to Mr. Burlingame

No. 150.]

Department of State, Washington, August 14, 1865.

Sir: Your despatch of the 4th of May last, No. 109, from Shanghai, enclosing a communication from S. Wells Williams, esq., relative to the ministerial crisis which has taken place in China, has been received, and I have read with interest the history of that event as related by Mr. Williams.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

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