Letter
William H. Seward to Richard Lyons, 1st Viscount Lyons, March 2, 1864
[Enclosure in No. 31.]
Mr. Seward to Lord Lyons.
Department of State, Washington, March 2, 1864.
My Lord: I have the honor to acknowledge with satisfaction the receipt of your note of the 29th ultimo, in which, referring to my notes to you of the 18th of December last and of the 9th of January of this year, respecting the case of the Chesapeake, you inform me that her Majesty’s government, in view of the readiness evinced by the government of the United States to make all proper and suitable reparation for the acts of its officers and of the apology made for the violation of her Majesty’s territory, accept that apology in the same spirit in which it has been offered.
I have, &c.,
WILLIAM H. SEWARD.
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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.