Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress with the Annual Message of the President, December 2, 1872, Part II, Volume V

No. 24.

[Confidential.]

Mr. Everett to Mr. Calhoun.

London , April 2, 1845.

Sir: * * * * * * *

A person very high in the confidence of the government, but not belonging to it, informed me a day or two since that he con*sidered the view of the Oregon question lately delivered on the subject in Boston by Mr. William Sturgis as fair and candid. Mr. Sturgis’s pamphlet regarded by a friend of the British ministry as fair and candid. [28]

EDWARD EVERETT.

John C. Calhoun, Esq., Secretary of State.