Letter
William H. Seward to Rufus King, February 8, 1865
Mr. Seward to Mr. King
No. 24.]
Department of State, Washington, February 8, 1865.
Sir: I have received your interesting despatch of January 14, No. 31, and have read with much pleasure the account it gives of your conversation with various members of the diplomatic corps, on a recent occasion, at the residence of the Austrian ambassador to Rome.
Your proceedings, on receiving by telegraph the substance of the note of this department, relative to the capture of the Florida in the harbor of Bahia, are approved.
I am, sir, your obedient servant,
WILLIAM H. SEWARD.
Rufus King, Esq., &c., &c. Rome.
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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 First Session Thirty-ninth C.