No. 619.
Mr. Fish to General Sickles.
It is important that Government be in possession of actual text of correspondence between you and Spanish ministry on subject of Virginius. You will therefore send by special messenger all such correspondence to London, so as to reach there and be telegraphed thence in cipher on the 25th of this month.
Anything important after your messenger leaves, which could reach here before 1st December, you will communicate by cable, unless you can secure accurate transmission to this capital by that date through some other channel.