Letter
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell to Charles Francis Adams, May 9, 1864
Earl Russell to Mr. Adams.
Foreign Office May 9, 1864.
Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 2d instant, enclosing a copy of the report of the American commissioners of the mixed commission court at Sierra Leone upon the slave trade on the west coast of Africa, and I have to request that you will convey to the government of the United States the thanks of her Majesty’s government for this communication.
I have the honor to be, with the highest consideration, sir, your most obedient, humble servant,
RUSSELL.
Charles Francis Adams, Esq., &c., &c., &c.
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FRUS u2014 Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Second 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 Second Session Thirty-eighth.