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. 586.]

Department of State, Washington, May 7, 1863.

Sir: Your despatch of April 24th (No. 389) has been received, together with its accompaniment, a renewed correspondence between Earl Russell and yourself concerning the case of the Sumter.

The positions you have maintained in your reply to his lordship are approved, and we cannot but hope that upon further consideration they will be conceded by her Majesty’s government.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

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