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

[Extract.]

Mr. Seward to Mr. Adams.

No. 593.]

Department of State, Washington, May 18, 1863.

Sir: * * * * * * * *

You will have received before the arrival of this despatch the answer which I have made to Earl Russell on the subject of the complaint which he preferred against you in relation to your letter to Admiral DuPont.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

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