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46,149 lettersMr. Seward to Mr. Tassara. Department of State, Washington, April 16, 1864. Sir: In acknowledging the receipt of your confidential communication of the 5th instant, I have the honor to…
Mr. F. W. Seward to Mr. Savage. Department of State, Washington, April 14, 1864. Sir: Your despatch No. 136 has been received, in which you call attention to the case…
Mr. Tassara to Mr. Seward. Legation of Spain in Washington, Washington, April 5, 1864. The undersigned, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of her Catholic Majesty, has received information of the…
Mr. Savage to Mr. Seward. Consulate General of the U. S. of America, Havana, March 27, 1864. Sir: I have just returned from an interview had with the captain general…
Mr. Seward to Lord Lyons. Department of State, Washington, March 11, 1864. My Lord: Recurring to your note of the 4th ultimo, respecting the arrival in Havana of a thousand…
Mr. Savage to Mr. F. W. Seward. United States Consulate General, Havana, March 5, 1864. Sir: In reply to your despatch of the 5th ultimo, accompanying a copy of a…
[Untitled] Legation of the United States, Madrid, February 27, 1864. Sir: The subject of suppressing the inhuman African slave trade has been one of deep anxiety to the government of…
Mr. Seward to Lord Lyons,. Department of State, Washington, February 6, 1864. My Dear Lord Lyons: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 4th…
Mr. Seward to Mr. Koerner. No. 67.] Department of State, Washington, February 6, 1864. Sir:By the 9th article of the treaty of Washington of the 9th of August, 1842, between…
Mr. F. W. Seward to Mr. Savage. Department of State, Washington, February 5, 1864. Sir: Your despatches from No. 116 to 118, both inclusive, have been received. Referring to your…
[Untitled] Madrid, December 16, 1863. My Lord: In conformity with the instructions contained in your lordship’s despatch of the 12th ultimo, I did not fail to express to the Marquis…
[Untitled] Madrid, December 16, 1863. M. le Min’re: In conformity with the wish expressed” by your excellency’ in the conversation which I had the honor of holding with you on…
Lord Lyons to Mr. Seward. Washington, February 4, 1864. Sir: I hastened to communicate to her Majesty’s government the note dated the 21st instant, (28th November last,) in which you…
Mr. Seward to Lord Lyons. Department of State, Washington, November 28, 1863. My Dear Lord Lyons: I have taken the President’s instructions upon the suggestion, communicated in your note of…
Mr. Savage to Mr. Seward. United States Consulate General, Havana, November 20, 1863, Sir: Over one thousand African negroes were brought to this city a few days since. It is…
Mr. Benjamin to Mr. Lamar. No. 1.] Confederate States of America, Department of State, Richmond, January 15, 1863. Sir: It has been suggested to this government, from a source of…
Mr. Seward to Mr. Mercier. Department of State, Washington, June 30, 1863. Sir: With reference to the several claims which you have from time to time presented on behalf of…
General Shepley to Mr. Seward. State of Louisiana, Executive Department, New Orleans, June 8, 1863. Sir: I have the honor herewith to transmit a report of Hon. Bion Bradbury, the…
[Translation.] New Orleans, December 8, 1862. To the Consul of France, at New Orleans: Sir: I have had the honor of being informed of the reply which the honorable the…
[Translation.] Mr. Mercier to Mr. Seward. Legation of France in the United States, Washington, January 5, 1863. Sir: In acknowledging the receipt, under date of the 15th of last November,…