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

Her Majesty’s Foreign Office to Laird Brothers.

Foreign Office, December 11, 1863.

Gentlemen: I am directed by Earl Russell to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 7th instant, which was only received at this office on the 10th; and I am to inform you that your letter has been referred to the treasury, for such directions as that department may think proper to give.

I am, gentlemen, your most obedient servant,

E. HAMMOND.

Messrs. Laird Brothers, Iron Works, Birkenhead.