Letter
Right Honorable Earl Russell to Charles Francis Adams, November 3, 1864
Earl Russell to Mr. Adams
Foreign Office, November 3, 1864.
Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 31st ultimo, in which you make a representation respecting the practice of the authorities of Newfoundland of granting passages to the United States to convicts in that island, whose sentences have been commuted, on condition that they leave Newfoundland for other parts, and who select the United States as their destination; and I have the honor to inform you that I have lost no time in transmitting a copy of your representation to the proper department of her Majesty’s government.
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 First Session Thirty-ninth C
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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 First Session Thirty-ninth C.