Letter

Cridland to Richard Lyons, 1st Viscount Lyons, June 25, 1863

Author

Cridland

Recipient

Richard Lyons, 1st Viscount Lyons

Date

June 25, 1863

Type

Letter

Language

English

[Enclosure 8 in No. 5.]

Acting Consul Cridland to Lord Lyons.

Mobile, June 25, 1863.

My Lord: In my despatch dated 13th instant I had the honor to inform your lordship that with my reply to Mr. Benjamin’s letter of the 8th of June I had in a private note requested permission to remain in Mobile till I could obtain instructions from your lordship with regard to the disposal of the archives of this consulate.

Mr. Benjamin has replied to my note, but unfavorably, so that I am packing up the papers of this office, and will place them in the hands of one of the most respectable and discreet persons in this city, M. Wauroy, the Dutch consul.

The following are Mr. Benjamin’s words in reply to my request:

“You need not hurry at all to leave Mobile, but it is desirable that your stay there should be limited, as the local authorities may be misled by your remaining there, and difficulties may arise. It is solely to avoid such difficulties that you were requested not to continue your residence there.”

I have, &c.,

FRED. J. CRIDLAND.

Topics

19th Century Civil War Diplomacy

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.