Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the First Session Thirty-ninth Congress

Mr. Hunter to Mr. Adams

No. 1467.]

Department of State, Washington, June 27, 1865.

Sir: I Have to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch of the 8th of June, No. 983, transmitting a copy of the London Gazette of the 6th instant, containing Earl Russell’s note to the lords commissioners of the admiralty, announcing the withdrawal of the recognition by her Majesty’s government of belligerent rights to the rebels.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,

W. HUNTER, Acting Secretary.

Charles Francis Adams, Esq., &c., &c., &c.