Letter

Cordell Hull to W. G. Bateson, January 30, 1866

Mr. Hull to Mr. Bateson.

Dear Sir: Messrs. Fraser, Trenholm & Co instruct us to inform you that they never paid her Margaret Marshall or any other wife, of any seaman of the Shenandoah, a sixpence any time.

Their name has, no doubt, been put into the mouth of an ignorant woman by the zealous detective who supplies information to the American consul.

Yours, truly,

F. S. HULL.

W. G. Bateson, Esq.

Sources
FRUS u2014 Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Second Session of the Thirty 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 of the Thirty.