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

Mr. Seward to Lord Lyons.

Department of State, Washington, May 15, 1863.

My Lord: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 11th instant asking for certain information concerning a promised supplementary report from Commander Collins relative to the capture of the schooner Elias Reed, and to state that it has been referred to the Secretary of the Navy with a view of obtaining the desired information.

I have the honor to be, with high consideration, your lordship’s obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

Right Hon. Lord Lyons, &c., &c., &c.