Office of the Historian

Mr. Seward to Mr. McBride.

No. 10.]
Department of State,
Washington, January 14, 1864.

James McBride, Esq., etc.:

Sir: Your dispatch No. 9, of October 9, 1863, has been received. The subject of which it treats, viz, the policy of Great Britain in the Sandwich Islands—the efforts made by its officials there to shape and control the future destinies of these islands—and the measures which you indicate, with the view of counteracting these influences, are all deemed of much importance and they will receive the consideration to which they are justly entitled.

I am, etc.,

William H. Seward.