Topic

Letters about Diplomacy

34,295 letters
Letter

Roundell Palmer to The Earl of Clarendon. P. S.—*I annex, as necessary to give a complete view of what passed, the two following extracts: No. 1, being the passage in Earl Russell’s letter to Mr. Adams, of December 19, 1862, immediately following that quoted by Mr. Adams; and the other, No. 2, being Earl Russell’s report to Lord Lyons, dated February 14, 1863, of his conversation with Mr. Adams: No. 1. “I shall accordingly be ready to confer at any time with you, and to listen to any suggestion which you may have to make, by which the British foreign enlistment act and the corresponding statute of the United States may be made more efficient for their purpose.” No. 2. “Mr. Adams said that his government was ready to listen to any propositions her Majesty’s government had to make; but they did not see how their own law on this subject could be improved.” I said, “that the cabinet had come to a similar conclusion, so that no further proceedings need be taken at present on this subject.” R. P, March 6, 1866

From Roundell Palmer
To The Earl of Clarendon. P. S.—*I annex, as necessary to give a complete view of what passed, the two following extracts: No. 1, being the passage in Earl Russell’s letter to Mr. Adams, of December 19, 1862, immediately following that quoted by Mr. Adams; and the other, No. 2, being Earl Russell’s report to Lord Lyons, dated February 14, 1863, of his conversation with Mr. Adams: No. 1. “I shall accordingly be ready to confer at any time with you, and to listen to any suggestion which you may have to make, by which the British foreign enlistment act and the corresponding statute of the United States may be made more efficient for their purpose.” No. 2. “Mr. Adams said that his government was ready to listen to any propositions her Majesty’s government had to make; but they did not see how their own law on this subject could be improved.” I said, “that the cabinet had come to a similar conclusion, so that no further proceedings need be taken at present on this subject.” R. P
March 6, 1866

Mr. Palmer to Lord Clarendon. Lincoln’s Inn, March 6, 1866. After a careful reconsideration of the expressions used by me on the occasion to which Mr. Adams refers, and of…

19th CenturyDiplomacyReconstruction