Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Second Session of the Fortieth Congress

[Telegram per cable. ]

Mr. Seward to Mr. Adams

Department of State,Washington, September 13, 1867.

Charles Francis Adams, Esq., &c., &c., &c.

Collector of customs at New York reports the Fenian episode of your 1428a mere sensational fiction.

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.