Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Third Session of the Fortieth Congress, Part I

[Telegram per cable.]

Mr. Johnson to Mr. Seward

Legation of the United States, London, October 20, 1868.

Can I sign convention for claims on basis of treaty of February, ’53?

REVERDY JOHNSON.

Hon. William H. Seward, Secretary of State, Washington, D. C.