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

Mr. Seward to Mr. Haldeman.

No. 37.]

Department of State, Washington, March 21, 1864.

Sir:Your despatch No. 43, dated February 23, has been received, and has been read with much interest.

The President is gratified to learn that the feelings of the Scandinavian people are, in your judgment, so friendly to us and to our cause in the present crisis as to render unnecessary the employment of a special detective agent in Sweden, as suggested in the communication of Mr. Tefft, of which a copy accompanied a former instruction addressed to you by the department.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

Jacob S. Haldeman, Esq., &c., &c., &c., Stockholm.