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 11, 1865.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 2d instant, together with the accompanying copy of a despatch from the governor general of Canada, and beg that you will convey to him my thanks for the information contained therein.

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

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

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