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

Mr. Seward to Lord Lyons.

Department of State. Washington, May 25, 1864.

My Lord: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 18th instant, in regard to the case of the Don Jose, and in reply to inform your lordship that I shall give the matter an attentive consideration.

I have the honor to be, with high regard, my lord, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

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