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

Mr. Burnley to Mr. Seward.

Washington, September 13, 1864.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge receipt of your note of this day’s date, relative to the probable proceedings of the steamer Mary in the port of Halifax, and I beg to say, in reply, that I forwarded at once a copy of your note to his excellency the lieutenant-governor of Nova Scotia.

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

J. HUME BURNLEY.

Hon. William H. Seward, &c., &c., &c