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, April 18, 1864.

My Lord: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 9th instant, respecting certain cotton how in that part of the United States which is held by insurgents, and which is said to belong to Mr. John Mulholland, of Belfast. I have the honor to inform your lordship, in reply, that the subject will be taken into consideration.

I have the honor to be, with high regard, my lord, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

Right Hon. Lord Lyons, &c., &c., &c.