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, May 29, 1865.

My Dear Sir Frederick: I find, on turning to our files, that on the 22d Instant instructions were addressed to Mr. Adams, in which he was requested to impart to Earl Russell the sense entertained by the government and people of the United States of the manifestations of sympathy and condolence conveyed to us in the despatches addressed by Earl Russell to you on the 28th of April and 6th instant, respectively.

Believe me to be, my dear sir, very faithfully yours,

W. HUNTER, Acting Secretary.

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