Letter

Russell, to Richard Lyons, 1st Viscount Lyons, February 11, 1864

No. 19.

Earl Russell to Lord Lyons.

My Lord: I have to state to you that I approve the note which you addressed to Mr. Seward on the 19th of January, a copy of which is enclosed in your lordship s despatch, No. 51, of the 26th ultimo, calling upon the government of the United States to investigate the circumstances under which Mr. James Gray, mate of the British bark Saxon, was killed by Lieutenant Donohoe, of the United States ship Vanderbilt.

I am, &c.

RUSSELL,
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.