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

Mr. Burnley to Mr. Seward

Washington, December 14, 1864.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 14th instant, enclosing a copy of an instruction of this date, which you have, under the President’s direction, addressed to Mr. Adams, United States minister in London, upon receipt of telegraphic news that Samuel Eugene Lackey and others had been dismissed from custody at Montreal, and beg to thank you for sending me a copy of this communication.

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.