Letter
William H. Seward to Right Hon. Lord Lyons, November 13, 1863
Mr. Seward to Lord Lyons.
Department of State, Washington, November 13, 1863.
My Lord: With reference to your communication of the 2d instant, relative to the capture of the British steamship Sir William Peel, near Matamoras, by the United States gunboat Seminole, in the month of September last, and to my reply, I now have the honor to enclose to you the copy of a letter, of the 10th instant, addressed to this department by the Secretary of the Navy.
The protest and the chart which accompanied your note are herewith returned to you.
I have the honor to be your lordship’s obedient servant,
WILLIAM H. SEWARD.
Right Hon. Lord Lyons, &c., &c., &c.
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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.