[584] Ibid., p. 65.
[585] Russell Papers. Lyons to Russell. Private. April 8, 1862.
[586] Ibid.
[587] A Cycle of Adams' Letters, I, 123. To his son, April 4, 1862.
[588] Palmerston MS. Russell to Palmerston, March 31, 1862.
[589] Lyons Papers. March 22, 1862.
[590] F.O., Am., Vol. 827. No. 244. Extract. Lyons to Russell, April 11, 1802.
[591] A Cycle of Adams' Letters, I, 143. Adams to his son, May 16, 1862.
[592] Thouvenel, Le Secret de l'Empereur, II, p. 247.
[593] Documents Diplomatiques, 1862, pp. 120-122. Mercicr to Thouvenel, April 13, 1862. A translation of this despatch was printed, with some minor inaccuracies, in the New York Tribune, Feb. 5, 1863, and of Mercier's report, April 28, on his return from Richmond, on Feb. 9, under the caption "The Yellow Book." It is interesting that the concluding paragraphs of this report of April 28, as printed in the Tribune, are not given in the printed volume of Documents Diplomatiques, 1862. These refer to difficulties about cotton and to certain pledges given by Seward as to cessation of illegal interferences with French vessels. How the Tribune secured these paragraphs, if authentic, is not clear. The whole purpose of the publication was an attack by Horace Greeley, editor, on Seward in an effort to cause his removal from the Cabinet. See Bancroft, Seward, II, 371-2.