Letter

John A. Dix to William H. Seward, July 26, 1867

Mr. Dix to Mr. Seward

No. 109.]

Sir: I have the honor to inform you that, in compliance with your instructions in despatch No. 52, I communicated to the government of France a copy of an instruction of the 25th March last, No. 194, addressed to Mr. Burlingame, the minister of the United States in China.

I now enclose a translation of a letter from the Marquis de Moustier on the same subject, addressed to me on the 24th instant, with a copy of a despatch addressed by the minister of foreign affairs of France, also in translation, to his excellency Lord Cowley, ambassador of her Britannic Majesty at Paris.

I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

JOHN A. DIX.

Hon. William H. Seward, Secretary of State, Washington, D. C.

Sources
FRUS u2014 Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Second Session of the Fortie View original source ↗
U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Second Session of the Fortie.