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. 719.]

Department of State, Washington, December 5, 1864.

Sir: I have to acknowledge with satisfaction the receipt of your despatch, No. 561, relating to the high regard entertained for Anson Burlingame, esq., our minister at Pekin, by Sir Frederick Bruce, and to inform you that the information agrees with our reports from China concerning Mr. Burlingame.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

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