Mason to Slidell, March 4, 1865.] [Footnote 1265: _Ibid._, Slidell to Mason, March 5 and 6, 1865.] [Footnote 1266: _Ibid._, Mason to Slidell, March 15, 1865.] [Footnote 1267: Mason to Benjamin, March 31, 1865.

(Richardson, II, pp.
709-17.)] [Footnote 1268: _Ibid._, p.

717.] [Footnote 1269: Russian Archives.

Stoeckl to F.O., Jan.

24, 1865.