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

Mr. Seward to Mr. Dayton

No. 660.]

Department of State, Washington, September 20, 1864.

Sir: I have received your despatch of the 25th of August, No. 529, and it is approved. You will please call upon Mr. Kreismann, our secretary of legation at Berlin, for further information in regard to the question whether the iron-clads and other two clipper ships, being built at St. Nazaire and Bordeaux, have been transferred to neutrals.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

William L. Dayton, Esq., &c., &c., &c.