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

Mr. Adams to Mr. Seward.

No. 616.]

Legation of the United States, London, March 11, 1864.

Sir: I have the honor to forward herewith copies of parliamentary papers, headed “North America, 1864,” Nos. 3, 4, and 5. These relate to the shipment of guns on the steamer Sumter, alias Gibraltar; to the pirate Alabama, and to the rebel iron-clad vessels built by the Messrs. Laird at Birkenhead.

I have the honor to be, sir, your obedient servant,

CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS.

Hon. William H. Seward, Secretary of State, Washington, D. C.