Letter

Charles Francis Adams to Right Hon. Earl Russell, April 25, 1865

Author

Charles Francis Adams

Recipient

Right Hon. Earl Russell

Date

April 25, 1865

Type

Letter

Language

English

[Enclosures.]

1. Mr. Adams to Lord Russell, April 25, 1865.

2. Lord Russell to Mr. Adams, April 28, 1865.

3. Mr. Adams to Lord Russell, April 28, 1865.

4. Lord Russell to Mr. Adams, May 3, 1865.

Mr. Adams to Earl Russell

Legation of the United States, London, April 25, 1865.

The undersigned, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of the United States, has the honor to inform the Earl Russell, her Majesty’s principal secretary of state for foreign affairs, that he has received from his government a letter addressed by the President to her Majesty the Queen, in reply to one announcing the resignation of Lord Lyons as her Majesty’s envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary at Washington city, a copy of which the undersigned begs to enclose, with the request that Earl Russell will be so good as to indicate in what manner it will be most agreeable to her Majesty to receive the original.

The undersigned begs to renew to Earl Russell the assurances of his most distinguished consideration.

CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS.

Right Hon. Earl Russell, &c., &c., &c.

Earl Russell to Mr. Adams

Foreign Office, April 28, 1865.

Earl Russell presents his compliments to Mr. Adams, and, in reply to his note of the 25th instant, requests he will be so good as to send the letter therein referred to to Lord Russell, in order that he may lay it before the Queen.

Mr. Adams to Earl Russell

Legation of the United States, London, April 28, 1865.

My Lord: I have the honor to transmit to your lordship herewith, in compliance with the request contained in your note of this day, the original letter from the President to the Queen, in reply to that from her Majesty, announcing the resignation by Lord Lyons of the post of her Majesty’s representative at Washington.

I pray your lordship to accept the assurances of the highest consideration with which I have the honor to be, my lord, your lordship’s most obedient servant,

CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS.

Right Hon. Earl Russell, &c., &c., &c.

Earl Russell to Mr. Adams

Foreign Office, May 3, 1865.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 28th ultimo, in which you enclose the answer of the President of the United States to the Queen’s letter notifying the recall of Lord Lyons from the post of her Majesty’s envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary at Washington, and I beg leave to acquaint you that I have not failed to lay the same before her Majesty.

I request you to accept the assurances of the highest consideration with which I have the honor to be, sir, your most obedient, humble servant,

RUSSELL.

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

Topics

19th Century Diplomacy Reconstruction

Sources

FRUS u2014 Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the First Session Thirty-ninth C 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 First Session Thirty-ninth C.