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

Lord Lyons to Mr. Seward.

Washington, January 17, 1863.

Sir: I beg to offer you my thanks for your note of the day before yesterday’s date, and for the translation, which you were so good as to send with it, of a communication, dated the 8th instant, which you had received from Mr. Tassara, concerning the affair of the Blanche.

I have the honor to be, with the highest consideration, sir, &c., &c.,

LYONS.

Hon. William H. Seward, &c., &c., &c.