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

[Extract.]

Mr. Dayton to Mr. Seward

No. 464.]

Paris, May 13, 1864.

Sir: Your despatches from No. 529 to No. 533, both inclusive, and likewise despatch numbered by mistake 634, have been duly received.

I regret that I shall not be able to see M. Drouyn de l’Huys until too late for the mail of to-day. An answer to some matters of business contained in your late despatches will, therefore, have to be delayed until next week. * * *

I am, sir, your obedient servant,

WM. L. DAYTON.

Hon. William H. Seward Secretary of State, &c., &c., &c.