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

[Extract]

Mr. Seward to Mr. Portman.

No. 13.]

Department of State, Washington, February 20, 1866.

Sir: Your two despatches, No. 65 and 66, dated the 18th and 30th of November, 1865, respectively, have been received.

Your proceedings, as therein narrated, appear to have been discreet, and are approved. We await the details promised in your No. 66, of the late negotiations at Osacca, and in the mean time I transmit enclosed^* a copy of our late correspondence on the subject with the French government.

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I am, sir, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

A. L. C. Portman, Esq., &c., &c., &c.

1. For enclosure see correspondence with United States minister to France.