Mfr Calhoun 10 Afr Forsyfh.

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 1st June, 1880.

 SIR: have just received your letter of the 31st ultimo, which was handed me by Mir Ar cher. It gives me the first intimation that l have had, that the President applied to you to obtain information of what took place in the cabinet of MT Monroe on the subject of the Seminole campaign: and, of course, as suppose, that you were acting for him, and not for yourself, in your correspondence with MT Crawford. Neither the copy ofhis letter to you, placed in my hands by the President, nor his note covering the copy, gave me the slightest intimation of this fact; but, on the contrary, had right to presume, from MT Crawford giving you authority to show me his letter if you pleased, that the correspon- dence originated with yourself, and was un- der your entire control, and not, as now in- fer, eat the request of the President, and for his use." The view in which I regard the correspondence, and which was justified to do, judging by the facts before me, fully ex- plains my remarks in my letter to the Presi- dent, as far as you were concerned with them. In the direction which this affair has ta- ken, it is not for me to determine whether you ought to furnish me any information, or what it ought to be. Had supposed that, undert the circumstances in which was pla- ced, such right belonged to me, would have claimed it previously to my answer to the Presidents letter, so as to have had the advantage, before made my reply, of what ever light might be furnished from the sour