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

Mr. Seward to Mr. Burnley

Department of State, Washington, December 15, 1864.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 9th instant, relative to the case of the Labuan, and, in reply, to inform you that it will receive attention.

Accept, sir, a renewed assurance of my high consideration.

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

J. Hume Burnley, Esq., &c., &c., &c.