Ballard, Henry E., Commanding U.S. Ship of the Line United States Ship Delaware, Fort Mahon, to Lieutenant William Seton, U.S. Ship Delaware, 1833 December 21

Seton is ordered to proceed to Barcelona on the American brig Franklin and thence to Paris where he is to deliver certain of the dispatches entrusted to him to "Edward Livingston, envoy extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at the court of Saint Cloud. He is then to return to America via the Havre and deliver the other dispatches entrusted to him to the Secretary of the Navy. Note on outside, written by Robert Seton, dated 1873: Robert says that in 1856 he brought from the lumber room of the cottage or farmhouse Cragdon a print of the Delaware with the autographs of its commanders Lithographed underneath it. He left it at Carlsruke, Germany. :: II-1-a A.L.S. 1p. 4to.