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, October 23, 1864.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge receipt of your note of the 21st instant, relative to the affair at St. Albans, and beg to state that I have caused a copy of this note to be sent to his excellency the governor general of Canada.

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.