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

Mr. Seward to Mr. Romero

Department of State, Washington, November 5, 1865.

Sir: I have had the honor to receive your note of the 21st of July, 1865, transmitting to me, for the information of the government of the United States, a translation into English of the discussion which took place in the legislative body of France on the 8th of June, 1865, in relation to the affairs of Mexico, and of parts of the disposal of that discussion, which terminated on the 9th of the same month.

Thanking you for this interesting document, I have the honor to renew to you, sir, the assurances of my high consideration.

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

Senor Matias Romero, &c., Washington, D. C.