Letter

STEWART, Assistant Collector to Messrs. Laird Brothers, October 9, 1863

[Private.]

Assistant collector of her Majesty’s customs, Liverpool, to Laird Brothers.

Gentlemen: I have received your private note of yesterday, and regret that you should have the trouble of writing on the subject.

In speaking of the place where the iron-clad is at present, I meant merely to speak of the dock or float where she is at present, and which I used as synonymous with these terms.

I am, gentlemen, your obedient servant,

W. G. STEWART, Assistant Collector.

Messrs. Laird Brothers.

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.