Letter
Sewaed to Charles Francis Adams, February 28, 1865
Mr. Seward to Mr. Adams
No. 1280.]
Department of State, Washington, February 28, 1865.
Sir: Your attention is invited to the accompanying extract from a despatch of the 11th instant, No. 437, from Mr. Dudley, our consul at Liverpool, respecting the English steamer the City of Richmond, which is alleged to have carried out and transferred to the pirate Stonewall its armament, supplies, and crew, and also to the movements of the steamer Laurel, alias the Confederate States.
It is presumed that you have already brought the subject to the attention of her Britannic Majesty’s government.
I am, sir, your obedient servant,
WILLIAM H. SEWAED.
Charles Francis Adams, Esq., &c., &c., &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.