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, March 23, 1863.

My Dear Sir: A British subject has written to ask me to inquire from you whether you will grant permits to British subjects to load ships with cotton in the Savannah river below the confederate obstructions. Will you be so kind as to tell me what answer I should make ?

Yours, faithfully,

LYONS.

Hon. William H. Seward, Secretary of State, &c.