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. 515.]

Department of State, Washington, March 26, 1864.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge, with much satisfaction, the receipt of your despatch of the 11th instant, No. 433. You will be pleased to make known to Mr. Drouyn de l’Huys the appreciation in which his action in regard to the iron-clads building at Bordeaux and Nantes is held by this government.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

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