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

Mr. F. W. Seward to Mr. Dayton

No. 668.]

Department of State, Washington, September 26, 1864.

Sir: I have received your despatch of the 9th instant, No. 536, which reates to the confederate ships now being built at Bordeaux and Nantes, which is approved. I am pleased to see that you have anticipated and fully executed the instructions contained in a despatch of the 8th of August, No. 629.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,

F. W. SEWARD, Acting Secretary.

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