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, December 28, 1864.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 13th instant, submitting for consideration a proposition to bring the vessel James Douglas to New York, in order that a settlement may be effected with the owners, and, in reply, to inform you that I have invited the attention of the Secretary of the Navy to the matter.

Accept the assurances of my high consideration.

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

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