Mr. Seward to Lord Lyons.
U.S. Department of State · 1862
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Description
The American answer to London on 3 December 1862 took the form of this note from Secretary of State William H. Seward to Lord Lyons, Britain's minister in Washington. It is document 331 in the Foreign Relations volume for 1863. It survives in the 1863 volume of Foreign Relations of the United States, the State Department's official record of its work abroad.
Lyons was the man Seward had to persuade, warn, or answer in person in Washington. Notes to him carried the American side of each dispute between the two governments. The letter's value lies partly in its place in the sequence: it shows the conversation between the two capitals continuing without a break.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | U.S. Department of State |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 1862 |
| COLLECTION | DECLASSIFIED |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 641 |
| LICENSE | Public Domain |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian |
Source: https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1863p1/d331