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

Mr. Seward to Lord Lyons.

Department of State, Washington, February 20, 1864.

My Lord: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your communication of the 15th instant, relative to the restriction placed upon the trade between New York and places within the Queen’s dominions, and to inform you that the subject will receive attention.

I have the honor to be, with high consideration, your lordship’s obedient servant,

WILLIAM H.SEWARD.

Right Honorable Lord Lyons, &c., &c., &c.