Letter

Laird Brothers to Samuel Price Edwards, Esq., Collector of her Majesty’s Customs, Liverpool, September 18, 1863

Author

Laird Brothers

Recipient

Samuel Price Edwards, Esq., Collector of her Majesty’s Customs, Liverpool

Date

September 18, 1863

Type

Letter

Laird Brothers to S. Price Edwards, esq., collector of H. M. customs, Liverpool.

Birkenhead Iron Works, Birkenhead, September 18, 1863.

Sir: We beg to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 17th instant, informing us that the lords commissioners of her Majesty’s treasury will allow the trial trip to be made by the vessel referred to in our letter of the 8th instant, relying upon the honorable engagement which has been given by us that the ship shall, after the usual trial trip, be brought back again to Liverpool, and shall not leave that port without a week’s notice to her Majesty’s government of the intention to send her away.

This engagement was made under the circumstances set forth in our previous correspondence, and we now beg to confirm the same; and are, sir, your obedient servants,

LAIRD BROTHERS.

Samuel Price Edwards, Esq., Collector of her Majesty’s Customs, Liverpool.

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.