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. 660.]

Department of State, Washington, July 23, 1863.

Sir: Your despatch of the 2d instant has been received, together with its accompaniments, the resolutions of the inhabitants of Bolton, in Lancashire, and of the Association of the Ministers and Deacons of the Congregationalists of Merionethshire, held at Dolgelly, in North Wales. I have submitted their spirited and encouraging expressions of the public opinion of Great Britain to the President, and I have to request you (if it shall be agreeable to her Majesty’s government) to communicate to the parties concerned the assurances of his grateful acknowledgment and appreciation.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD

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