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

Mr. Seward to Mr. Adams.

No. 857.]

Department of State, Washington, February 29, 1864.

Sir: I transmit herewith, for your information, a copy of an instruction to Mr. Dayton, of the 25th instant, No. 487, in regard to the newspaper report of S. R. Mallory, the pretended secretary of the navy of the insurgents, recently sent to you.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

C. F. Adams, Esq., &c., &c., &c.

[See instructions to Mr. Dayton for enclosure.]