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

Mr. Hunter to Sir F. Bruce

Department of State, Washington, April 25, 1865.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of Mr. Burnley’s note of the 18th instant, and of its accompanying copy of Governor Rawson’s answer to Mr. Seward’s note upon the subject of the equipment of five vessels at the Bahamas for purposes hostile to the United States, and I beg you to cause to be conveyed to his excellency an expression of my thankfulness for the information.

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

W. HUNTER, Acting Secretary.

Hon. Sir Frederick W. A. Bruce, &c., &c., &c.