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 Campbell.

No. 2.]

Department of State, Washington, October 5, 1864.

Sir:Mr. Haldeman’s despatch No. 56 has been received.

The appointment which it announces of Baron N. de Wetterstedt as envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Washington is duly appreciated as a mark of the friendly regard of the King of Sweden towards the United States.

You will please assure Count Manderstrom that the Baron de Wetterstedt will be cordially welcomed in this country as the representative from his Swedish Majesty.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

James H. Campbell, Esq., &c., &c., &c., Stockholm.