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                                                                     Head Quarters Department of the Pacific,
                                                                     San Francisco,  March 12  1865

Lieut. General U. S. Grant, Commanding the Armies of the U.S. Head Quarters City Point.

General,

I was exceedingly gratified by the receipt of your letter of the 8th of January cautioning me concerning the movements of Dr. Gwin, and giving me contingent instructions with reference to any hostile movements he may cause to be undertaken against the U.S. from the Mexican State of Sonora.

I have taken the deepest interest in this scratched out Mexican question ever since England and Spain withdrew from the invasion of Mexico and it became evident the french were continuing it for other than the ostensible object for which was sent on foot.

[lined out] Whilst I was in Washington, and before the Emperor Napolen's letter to General [since Marshal] Foreys appeared, I had a conversation with the french minister with whom I was on friendly terms, and in it I charged the french government with having the intention