(CIVIL WAR) SEWARD WILLIAM H Autograph Letter Signed as Secr

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(CIVIL WAR.) SEWARD, WILLIAM H. Autograph Letter Signed, as Secretary of State, to George Makepeace Towle, explaining that he could not have been aware of Towle's article ["Our Recent Foreign Relations," Atlantic Monthly, August 1864] because of matters recently requiring his full attention [writing and delivering speeches to combat the growing weariness of the War?], and expressing approval of his article. 3 pages, 8vo, written on a folded sheet; nearly complete separation at center vertical fold, remnants of hinging on terminal page, faint scattered soiling and bleedthrough, folds. Washington, 17 September 1864

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". . . If I had not been absorbed during the month of August and the past days of this month with cares that prevented me from reading altogether I should have been possessed of your article on Foreign Relations at an earlier period. But it has happened so that your note has introduced me to the paper. I think you have correctly drawn from the diplomatic papers the spirit of all the parties concerned, certainly you have interpreted me . . . as you have received me with a liberality that is highly gratifying.
"On the other hand, I am indebted to you for . . . useful views of a general character in relation to the part treating of our Foreign affairs. . . ."