Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the First Session Thirty-eighth Congress, Part I

Mr. Seward to Mr. Adams.

No. 661.]

Department of State, Washington, July 23, 1863.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your interesting despatch of the 3d instant. In communications sent to you by the last mail I have already anticipated the comment which the despatch would otherwise elicit.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

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