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. Harvey.

No. 154.]

Department of State, Washington, November 29, 1864.

Sir:Your despatch, No. 296, of the 14th ultimo has been received, and I have commended to the Secretary of the Navy your suggestion as to the importance of ready communication between our ministers abroad and naval officers of the United States on foreign stations.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

James E. Harvey, Esq., &c., &c., &c., Lisbon.