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. Thayer.

No. 26.]

Department of State, Washington, October 23, 1863.

Sir: Your despatch of September 5, No. 37, has been received. The information it communicates relative to the cotton crop in Egypt, and the favorable progress of the Suez canal enterprise, is very interesting and instructive.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

William S. Thayer, Esq., &c., &c., &c., Alexandria.