Message of the President of the United States to the Two Houses of Congress, at the Commencement of the Second Session of the Thirty-seventh Congress

Mr. Seward to Lord Lyons.

Department of State,
Washington, October 18, 1861.

My Lord: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of yesterday, and to state, in reply, that it was intended in my previous communication, to which it refers, to say that official correspondence of other powers with the agents of those powers in blockaded ports, as well as that of British authorities with their agents, might be sent by British vessels of war.

I am, &c.,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

The Right Hon. Lord Lyons, &c., &c., &c.