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William H. Seward to Charles Francis Adams, April 13, 1868
Mr. Seward to Mr. Adams No. 2156.] Department of State, Washington, April 13, 1868. Sir: With a note of the 9th of November last, Mr. Ford, her Britannic Majesty’s chargé…
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Letters from William H. Seward
B. 1801 · D. 1872
William Henry Seward was an American politician who served as United States Secretary of State from 1861 to 1869 and earlier served as governor of New York and as a United States senator. A determined opponent of the spread of slavery in the years leading up to the American Civil War, he was prominent in the Republican Party in its formative years and was praised for his work on behalf of the Union as Secretary of State during the Civil War. He also negotiated the treaty for the United States to purchase the Alaska Territory.
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William H. Seward to Edward L. Plumb, April 13, 1868
Mr. Seward to Mr. Plumb. No. 53.] Department of State, Washington, April 13, 1868. Sir: In your dispatch No. 87, elsewhere acknowledged, you have alluded to the financial proceedings, called…
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William H. Seward to Señor Don Facundo GoÑ, April 17, 1868
Mr. Seward to Mr. Goñi,. Department of State, Washington, April 17, 1868. Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 30th ultimo, relative to…
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William H. Seward to Edward Thornton, April 17, 1868
Mr. Seward to Mr. Thornton Department of State, Washington, April 17, 1868. Sir: I have the honor to transmit for your information a copy of a dispatcht of the 28th…
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William H. Seward to Charles Francis Adams, April 24, 1868
Mr. Seward to Mr. Adams No. 2165.] Department of State, Washington, April 24, 1868. Sir: Your dispatch of the 8th of April, No. 1569, has been received. Your observations concerning…
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William H. Seward to William H. Seward, April 24, 1868
Mr. George F. Seward to Mr. William H. Seward. No. 281.] United States Consulate General, Shanghai, April 24, 1868. (Received June 24, 1868.) Sir: Mr. Frederick Jenkins, a citizen of…
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William H. Seward to William Henry Seward, April 24, 1868
Mr. George F. Seward to Mr. William II. Seward. No. 282.] United States Consulate General, Shanghai, April 24, 1868. (Received June 24, 1868.) Sir: My dispatch No. 281, herewith, offers…
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William H. Seward to Señor Don Mariano Sanchez Fontecilla, April 27, 1868
Mr. Seward to Señor Fontecilla. Department of State, Washington, April 27, 1868. Sir: I transmit for your information a copy of the reply of this department to a note of…
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William H. Seward to Judson Kilpatrick, April 30, 1868
[Extract.] Mr. Seward to Mr. Kilpatrick. No. 60.] Department of State, Washington, April 30, 1868. Sir: I have to acknowledge the receipt of your dispatch No. 104, Unclosing a copy…
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William H. Seward to John P. Hale, May 12, 1868
Mr. Seward to Mr. Hale. No. 110.] Department of State, Washington, May 12, 1868. Sir: The reply of the Spanish government to the modifications proposed by the allied republics of…
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William H. Seward to Señor Don Facundo GoÑ, May 15, 1868
Mr. Seward to Mr. Goñi. Department of State, Washington, May 15, 1868. The Secretary of State presents his compliments to Mr. Goñi, her Catholic Majesty’s minister plenipotentiary, with the following…
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William H. Seward to Edward de Stoeckl, May 20, 1868
Mr. Seward to Mr. de Stoeckl Department of State, Washington, May 20, 1868. Sir: I have the honor to communicate a copy of a telegram from San Fran-cisco, of the…
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William H. Seward to Edward L. Plumb, May 23, 1868
Mr. Seward to Mr. Plumb. No. 61.] Department of State, Washington, May 23, 1868. Sir: During the last two weeks the press has published telegraphic dispatches, which seem to have…
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William H. Seward to Benjamin Moran, May 27, 1868
Mr. Seward to Mr. Moran No. 5.] Department of State, Washington, May 27, 1868. Sir: I learn from the cable that a commission of Lord Clarendon and others have been…
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William H. Seward to Edward Thornton, May 28, 1868
Mr. Seward to Mr. Thornton Department of State, Washington, May 28, 1868. My Dear Sir: You have already called my attention to rumors of projected Fenian raids into Canada. The…
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William H. Seward to Gideon H. Hollister, May 28, 1868
Mr. Seward to Mr. Hollister. No. 4.] Department of State, Washington, May 28, 1868. Sir: Your painfully interesting dispatch of the 8th of May, No. 3, has been received. The…
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William H. Seward to Edward L. Plumb, May 29, 1868
Mr. Seward to Mr. Plumb. No. 65.] Department of State, Washington, May 29, 1868. Sir: The department has been informed by Mr. Black, the consul at Mexico, in a dispatch…
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William H. Seward to Their Excellencies Anson Burlingame, Chih-Kang, Sun Chia-Ku, June 3, 1868
Mr. Seward to the Chinese Embassy Department of State, Washington, June 3, 1868. The undersigned, Secretary of State of the United States, has the honor to acknowledge the receipt of…
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William H. Seward to M. Berthemy, June 10, 1868
Mr. Seward to Mr. Berthemy Department of State, Washington, June 10, 1868. Sir: Herewith I have the honor to inclose for your information, and that of the government which you…
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William H. Seward to Benjamin Moran, June 16, 1868
[Circular.] Mr. Seward to Mr. Moran No. 12.] Department of State, Washington, June 16, 1868. Sir: I have caused to be forwarded to you two copies of a volume containing…
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William H. Seward to Benjamin Moran, June 22, 1868
Mr. Seward to Mr. Moran No. 14.] Department of State, Washington, June 22, 1868, Sir: The correspondence recorded in your legation is full of remonstrances and expostulations, which, by the…
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William H. Seward to Edward de Stoeckl, June 24, 1868
Mr. Seward to Mr. de Stoeckl Department of State, Washington, June 24, 1868. Will Mr. de Stoeckl have the goodness to recall the attention of the imperial government to the…
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William H. Seward to Edward L. Plumb, June 26, 1868
Mr. Seward to Mr. Plumb. No. 71.] Department of State, Washington, June 26, 1868. Sir: Your dispatch No. 131, of the 20th ultimo, relative to the outrage inflicted upon six…
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William H. Seward to John P. Hale, July 1, 1868
Mr. Seward to Mr. Hale. No. 113.] Department of State, Washington, July 1, 1868. Sir: Complaints have of late been addressed to this department from various quarters, against the stern…