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

Mr. Dayton to Mr. Seward

No. 535.]

Paris, September 9, 1864.

Sir: As the most satisfactory mode of apprising the foreign department here of your action in the case of Mr. Mansfield, our consul at Tabasco, I read your despatch No. 618 to Mr. Drouyn de l’Huys. He seemed much gratified with the kind and courteous manner in which you expressed yourself in relation to his communication of the information he had received in relation to the character and habits of our consul at that post.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,

WM. L. DAYTON.

Hon. William H. Seward, &c., &c., &c.,