Mr. Seward to Sir F. Bruce
Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge, with much satisfaction, the receipt of your note of yesterday’s date, in which, referring to my note of the 15th ultimo, respecting the proposed appointment of additional consular officers of the United States in Canada, you inform me that you have been instructed by her Majesty’s principal secretary of state for foreign affairs to make known to this department that her Majesty’s government concur with the government of the United States in the proposed increase of its consular officers in Canada, and that instructions will be forwarded to his excellency the governor general to that effect.
I have the honor to be, with the highest consideration, sir, your obedient servant,
The Hon. Sir Frederick W. A. Bruce, &c., &c., &c.