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 19, 1864.

My Dear Sir: I have received with much satisfaction your letter of the day before yesterday, in which you informed me of the purport of telegraphic communications which you addressed to the governor of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward’s island, in regard to the St. Albans marauders. Your just and friendly spirit is highly appreciated.

Believe me to be, my dear sir, very faithfully yours,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

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