Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the First Session Thirty-eighth Congress, Part I

Mr. Seward to Mr. Adams.

No. 523.]

Department of State, Washington, March 24, 1863.

Sir: It is possible that Mr. Dudley may have called your attention to the fact stated in the accompanying extract from a despatch of his of the 3d instant, to this department, namely, that Klingender & Co., of Liverpool, notorious agents of the insurgents there, are also the reputed owners of the Sumter.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

Charles Francis Adams, Esq., &c., &c., &c.