Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Second Session Thirty-eighth Congress, Part I

No. 2.

Earl Russell to Mr. Mason.

Foreign Office, March 11, 1863.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 2d instant, enclosing a copy of a despatch signed by Mr. Benjamin, and dated Richmond, December 11, 1862, and I request you will accept my thanks for this communication.

I am, &c.,

RUSSELL.