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. 590.]

Department of State, Washington, May 9, 1863.

Sir: Your despatch of the 23d ultimo (No. 386) has been received, together with the copy of Earl Russell’s note to you of the 22d of the same month, relative to the intercepted insurgent correspondence.

I have no reason to question your decision not to prolong the special correspondence which you have held with his lordship upon that subject.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

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