Letter
Romaine to Messrs. Laird Brothers, Birkenhead, October 30, 1863
[In replying, quote the following initial letter M.]
Her Majesty’s Admiralty to Laird Brothers.
Admiralty, October 30, 1863.
Gentlemen: I am commanded by my lords commissioners of the admiralty to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 29th instant, forwarding a copy of the telegram sent by you to this office yesterday morning, and confirming its contents, by which you protest against the two iron-clads being taken into the river Mersey, and request that the orders given to Captain Inglefield may be reconsidered.
In reply, I am to inform you that my lords have referred your telegram to the secretary of state for foreign affairs.
I am, gentlemen, your most obedient servant,
W. G. ROMAINE.
Messrs. Laird Brothers, Birkenhead.
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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.