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

Mr. Seward to Mr. Wood

No. 105.]

Department of State, Washington, March 3, 1865.

Sir: Herewith I enclose, for your information, a copy of a despatch of the 9th ultimo, (No. 23,) from Mr. Bigelow, chargé d’affaires of the United States at Paris, in which he communicates a transcript of a note addressed to him by Mr. Drouyn de Lhuys, relative to the steam ram Olinde, otherwise Stonewall, together with several other papers upon the same subject.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

Bradford E. Wood, Esq., &c., &c., Copenhagen.

(For enclosures see despatch No. 25, from Mr. Bigelow.)