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

Mr. Seward to Mr. Burnley

Department of State, Washington, March 23, 1865.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your communication of the 7th instant, acquainting me, at the instance of the governor general of Canada, with the sale of the vessels Almandares and Pinero, the former to Spanish subjects at Havana, and the latter to a gentleman in Montreal, and to request that you will be so good as to cause my thanks to be conveyed to the governor general for the information.

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

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

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