Letter

Geoege Moore to By the President: J. P. Benjamin, June 6, 1863

Author

Geoege Moore

Recipient

By the President: J. P. Benjamin

Date

June 6, 1863

Type

Letter

[Enclosure 4 in No. 1.]

Consul Moore to Mr. Benjamin.

Richmond, June 6, 1863.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge your communication of yesterday’s date, transmitting to me the letters patent of the president, revoking my exequatur as her Britannic Majesty’s consul for the State of Virginia.

Without communicating upon this act, I simply acknowledge its reception, which I will communicate to my government by the first opportunity.

I have, &c.,

GEO. MOORE.

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.