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

Mr. Burnley to Mr. Seward

Washington, January 17, 1865.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 14th instant, and to inform you, in reply, that copies of it shall be forwarded to her Majesty’s government and to the lieutenant governor of Bermuda.

I have the honer to be, with the highest respect, sir, your most obedient, humble servant,

J. HUME BURNLEY.

Hon. William H. Seward, &c., &c., &c.