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

Mr. Seward to Mr. Adams.

No. 904.]

Department of State, Washington, April 7, 1864.

Sir: Your despatch of the 23d of March, No. 628, has been received, and your proceedings therein related in regard to the supposed outfit of the screw steamer Amphion are approved. The frank explanations which Earl Russell so properly made upon that subject are appreciated by this government. I am, sir, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

C. F. Adams, Esq., &c., &c., &c.