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46,149 lettersMr. Ford to Mr. Seward British Legation, Washington, September 21, 1867. Sir: The melancholy intelligence will have already reached you of the sudden death of Sir Frederick Wright Bruce, G.…
[Telegram per cable.] Sir F. Bruce to Lord Stanley Washington, August 22, 1867. Right Hon. Lord Stanley, &c., &c., &c.: I think it advisable to release Nagle and Warren. BRUCE.
Sir F. Bruce to Mr. Seward Washington, August 2, 1867. Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch of the 24th of July, enclosing the observations…
Mr. Seward to Sir F. Bruce Auburn, July 27, 1867. My Dear Sir: In view of my recent preoccupations, you were kind enough to defer until now the presenting to…
Mr. Welles to Mr. Seward Navy Department, Washington, September 21, 1866. Sir: In reply to your communication of the 31st of July last, transmitting a copy of a communication from…
Mr. Welles to Mr. Seward Navy Department, Washington, July 15, 1867. Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your communication of the 8th instant, transmitting one from…
Mr. Hunter to Sir F. Bruce Department of State, Washington,, July 24, 1867. Sir: Having submitted to the Secretary of the Navy the communication of the 3d instant addressed to…
Mr. Seward to Sir F. Bruce Department of State, Washington, July 8, 1867. Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your communication of the 3d instant, recalling…
Sir F. Bruce to Mr. Seward Washington, July 3, 1867, Sir: On the 16th of July of last year you were good enough to inform me that a proposal which…
Mr. F. W. Seward to Sir F. Bruce Department of State, Washington, June 8, 1867. Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the recept of your communication of the 21st…
Sir F. Bruce to Mr. Seward Washington, May 27, 1867. My dear Mr. Seward: I have just heard by telegraph from Lord Stanley that the capital sentences on Burke and…
Lord Stanley to Sir F. Bruce Foreign Office, May 24, 1867. Sir: I abstained in my despatch, No. 99, of the 2d instant, from making any observations on the communication…
[Memorandum.] Projet Seward and Winchester. The consul general of France agrees to withdraw Article XVI of the réglement pending the approval of his government, and it being admitted that there…
Lord Stanley to Earl Cowley No. 156.] Foreign Office, April 22, 1867. My Lord: Since the receipt of M. Drouyn de Lhuys’s letter to your excellency of the 6th of…
Sir F. Bruce to Mr. Seward Washington, May 21, 1867. Sir: In obedience to instructions which I have received from her Majesty’s secretary of state for foreign affairs, I have…
Mr. Smith to Mr. Seward Department OF State, Bureau of Claims, May 9, 1867. In the matter of Robert Lynch and Rev. John McMahon, confined in Canada tinder conviction of…
Mr. Seward to Sir F. Bruce Department of State, Washington, May 13, 1867. My Dear Sir Frederick: You are aware that in the apprehension of many considerate persons there has…
Lord Stanley to Sir F. Bruce Foreign Office, March 9, 1867. Sir: I transmit to you herewith a copy of Mr. Seward’s reply, which was communicated to me by Mr.…
Mr. Seward to Sir F. Bruce Department of State, Washington, January 12, 1867. Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your communication of the 7th instant, which…
Sir F. Bruce to Mr. Seward Washington, January 10, 1867. Sir: With reference to the capital convictions referred to in Mr. Drummond’s despatch of January 3d, from Montreal, copy of…