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. 506.]

Department of State, Washington, March 17, 1864.

Sir: I herewith transmit to you, for your information, the copy of a translation of a note of the 11th instant from Mr. L. de Geofroy, the chargé d’affaires of France, and of the reply from this department of the 12th instant, relative to the presence of United States troops in Matamoras.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

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

[For enclosures see correspondence with the French legation.]