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

Mr. Seward to Mr. Romero

Department of State, Washington, March 15, 1866.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 11th ultimo, transmitting a copy of a printed circular containing the prospectus of the “American and Mexican Emigrant Company,” organized in St. Louis, Missouri, by virtue of a grant from the so-called emperor of Mexico, dated the 27th of April, 1865.

Thanking you for your considerate attention, I avail myself of this occasion to repeat the assurances of my distinguished consideration.

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

Señor Matias Romero, Washington, D. C.