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

S. Price Edwards, esq., collector of H. M. customs, Liverpool, to Laird Brothers.

Liverpool, September 14, 1863.

Dear Sirs: You have the permission of the government to try the iron-clad ship, on your guarantee to return her.

I have only this moment received the telegram. Yours truly,

S. PRICE EDWARDS.

Messrs. Laird Brothers.