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

The United States Minister in Paris to the Minister of Foreign Affairs.

Paris, September 12, 1865.

Sir: I have received the note which your excellency wrote to me on the 7th ultimo in answer to a communication I had the honor to address you on the 1st of said month, with respect to the alleged projects of Dr. Gwin and his associates in Mexico.

I have the honor to transmit to your excellency the enclosed copy of a despatch which I have just received from my government.

I avail myself of this occasion, &c.

JOHN BIGELOW.

For enclosure see Mr. Seward’s despatch to Mr. Bigelow, No. 231, August 24, 1865, page—.