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Mr. Seward to Mr. Adams

No. 2123.]
Department of State, Washington, January 20, 1868.

Sir: Referring to my No. 2097 in regard to the question pending between the governments of Great Britain and Nicaragau, concerning the Musquito territory, I now inclose for your information a copy of a dispatch* from the United States minister to Nicaragua, containing the correspondence between Mr. Dickinson and the minister for foreign affairs regarding the action which this government has taken in the matter.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

Charles Francis Adams, Esq., &c., &c., &c.

  1. For inclosure dispatch No. 144, December 23, 1867, from the United States minister to Nicaragua.↩