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

Mr. Hunter to Mr. Adams.

No. 1667.]

Department of State, Washington, January 27, 1866.

Sir: Your despatch of the 11th instant, No. 1131, relative to the recent articles in the Times upon the subject of the expansion of the British export trade to this country, has been received, and the matter is conceived to be of such importance that I have submitted your interesting communication to the Secretary of the Treasury, in order that he may become acquainted with its contents.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,

W. HUNTER, Acting Secretary.

Charles Francis Adams, Esq., &c., &c., &c.