Letter

Right Hon. Earl Russell to Charles Francis Adams, April 18, 1864

Earl Russell to Mr. Adams.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 16th instant, enclosing a copy of a letter from the United States consul at Liverpool, respecting a vessel called the Hawk, in process of construction and outfit, at Renfrew, on the Clyde, and I have the honor to inform you that the attention of her Majesty’s government had been already directed to this vessel.

I have the honor to be, with the highest consideration, sir, your most obedient, humble servant,

RUSSELL.

Charles Francis Adams, Esq., &c., &c., &c.

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.