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

Mr. Adams to Mr. Seward.

No. 706.]

Legation of the United States, London, June 2, 1864.

Sir: In connexion with your despatch to me, No. 834, of the 6th of February, and my No. 608 to you, of the 3d of March, I now have the honor to transmit a copy of Lord Russel’s note to me, of the 19th of May, respecting the steamer Will-o’-the-Wisp. I think I have seen in the newspapers some later notice of her movements as a blockade runner from Bermuda.

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

CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS.

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

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Foreign Office, May 19, 1864.

Sir: With reference to your letter of the 22d of February last, I have the honor to state to you that I am informed by the secretary of state for the colonies that it appears from reports which have been received from the governor of Bermuda that the steamer Will-o-the-Wisp had left that port without having done any illegal act so far as is known, or having given cause for any interference on the part of the authorities.

I have the honor to be, with the highest consideration, sir, your most obedient, humble servant,

RUSSELL.

Charles Francis Adams, Esq., &c., &c., &c.