Letter
William H. Seward to Cassius M. Clay, June 17, 1864
Mr. Seward to Mr. Clay
No 72.]
Department of State, Washington, June 17, 1864.
Sir: I transmit, for your information, three printed copies of a correspondence between the honorable Z. Chandler, chairman of the Committee on Commerce of the Senate, and this department, relative to the intercontinental telegraph connecting the eastern and western hemispheres, by way of Behring’s straits, proposed by Perry McDonough Collins, esq.
I am, sir, your obedient servant,
WILLIAM H. SEWARD.
Cassius M. Clay, Esq., &c., &c., &c.
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FRUS u2014 Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Second Session Thirty-eighth
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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 Thirty-eighth.