270).

Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy in Lincoln's Cabinet, published a short book in 1874, _Lincoln and Seward_, in which the story was told, but without dates and so vaguely that no attention was directed to it.
Apparently the matter was not brought before the Cabinet and the contents of the despatch were known only to Lincoln, Seward, and the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, Sumner.] [Footnote 212: C.F.Adams, "Seward and the Declaration of Paris," p.

21.
Reprint from _Mass.Hist.Soc.Proceedings_, XLVI, pp.

23-81.] [Footnote 213: F.O., Am., Vol.

764, No.206.