Letter

Arbuthnot to Read over to the party in our presence, who witness his mark hereto ths 12th of November, 1863, at Queenstown. J. MOORE, Surveyor, N. SEYMOUR. P. DUNN, November 21, 1863

Author
Arbuthnot
Recipient
Read over to the party in our presence, who witness his mark hereto ths 12th of November, 1863, at Queenstown. J. MOORE, Surveyor, N. SEYMOUR. P. DUNN
Date
November 21, 1863
Type
Letter
No. 1.

Mr. Arbuthnot to Mr. Hammond.—(Received November 20.)

Treasury Chambers, November 21, 1863.

Sir: I am commanded by the lords commissioners of her Majesty’s treasury to transmit to you, for the information of Earl Russell, the enclosed copy of a letter from the commissioners of customs relating to a report that the United States war sloop Kearsarge had taken on board British subjects at Queenstown, and I am to state that my lords would be glad to be informed whether, in his lordship’s opinion, any further steps should be taken in the matter.

I have, &c.,

G. ARBUTHNOT.
Topics
19th CenturyCivil WarDiplomacy
Sources
FRUS u2014 Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Second Session Thirty-eighth View original source ↗
U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Second Session Thirty-eighth.