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

Mr. Seward to Mr. Burnley

Department of State, Washington, February 14, 1865.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 31st ultimo, and of the accompanying papers, from the governor general of Canada, in relation to the two vessels building at Montreal for the service of the insurgents, and I beg you will convey to him my thanks for his prompt attention to the matter.

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

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

J. Hume Burnley, Esq., &c., &c., &c.