Letter
Dudley to Charles Francis Adams, United States, July 8, 1863
Mr. Dudley to Mr. Adams.
United States Consulate, Liverpool, July 8, 1863.
Sir: I have the honor to enclose you a copy of an application, by me made yesterday, to the collector of customs at Liverpool, to stop the iron-clad ram building for the insurgents in the United States by the Messrs. Laird, at Birkenhead, and launched from their yard on Saturday last; also copies of William H. Russell’s, Joseph Ellis’s, Clarence R. Yonge’s, G. T. Chapman’s, and my own affidavits, upon which the application was based. The affidavits were made before, and the originals left with the said collector.
I am, sir, your obedient servant,
THOMAS H. DUDLEY.
Hon. Charles Francis Adams, United States Minister, &c., &c.
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FRUS u2014 Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the First Session Thirty-eighth
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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-eighth .