Reviewed Work: Autobiography of William H. Seward from 1801 to 1834. With a Memoir of His Life and Selections from His Letters from 1831 to 1846 by William H. Seward, Frederick W. Seward ...

This is the article we published then, with minor updates. On March 30, 1867, U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward and Russian envoy Baron Edouard de Stoeckl signed the Treaty of Cession.