Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the First Session Thirty-ninth Congress

Mr. Seward to Mr. Burnley

Department of State, Washington, February 9, 1865.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 7th instant relative to British claims to portions of the cotton found at Savannah.

I have the honor to be, with the highest consideration, sir, your obedient, humble servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

J. Hume Burnley, Esq., &c., &c., &c.