Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Second Session of the Fortieth Congress

[Telegram per cable.]

Mr. Seward to Mr. Adams

Department of State, Washington, September 19, 1867.

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

Sir Frederick Bruce died at Boston this morning. Express President’s sympathy to Lord Stanley. We are conferring with legation concerning funeral, subject to wishes of government and friends in England.

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.