Treasury Department,
Washington, D. C., March 30, 1863.
. . . This letter will be delivered to you by Mr. Walker,
who will also submit to your perusal the letter of instructions under which he
will himself act.
He is not informed as to the particulars of any commission
with which you are charged, other than that of negotiating a loan of five
millions, but you will doubtless find it convenient and useful to confer with
him freely as to all the objects you have in view. . . .
I trust your well-known sagacity and practical experience
will contribute much to the success of the efforts of our diplomatic and
consular functionaries to arrest these practices so dangerous to peace between
the two nations. . . .
SOURCE: Sarah Forbes Hughes, Letters and
Recollections of John Murray Forbes, Volume 2, p. 42
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