Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the First Session Thirty-ninth Congress

Mr. Seward to Mr. Adams

No. 1611.]

Department of State, Washington, December 1, 1865.

Sir: I have to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch of the 15th of November, No. 1090. It is accompanied by a printed copy of a supplemental correspondence upon the subject of claims for the depredations of the British cruisers upon unarmed naval commerce of the United States. I await the reply to Lord Russell’s communication which you have promised to make; when a copy of that reply shall have been received, we shall be in possession of the entire argument.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

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