Michael Quin Documents

This collection consists of State Department copies of documents sent by British Ambassador Lord Lyons to U. S. Secretary of State William H. Seward on 8 August 1863, now being forwarded, on 13 August, to Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles, accompanied by a cover letter signed by Seward. The case itself was months old, and had spawned a good deal of paperwork prior to the appearance of this particular batch of documents. The two key items are; 1) a seven-page affidavit of Quinn's describing the circumstances of his entrapment, given to Edward M. Archibald, the British consul in New York, on 13 June 1863; and 2) an eight-page letter from Archibald to Lord Lyons, making the case for Quinn's innocence and the inadequacy of the initial U. S. response of the previous March.

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Creator: Quin, Michael
Material Type: Mixed Materials
Genre/Physical Characteristic: Legal documents
Dimensions: 5 documents
Language: English
Identifier: MSN/CW 2013
Campus Location: Rare Books & Special Collections, Hesburgh Libraries
Conditions Governing Access: There are no access restrictions on this collection
Conditions Governing Use: Copyright status for collection materials is unknown. Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.) beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Works not in the public domain cannot be commercially exploited without permission of the copyright owners. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user
Subject: United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Participation, Foreign; United States. Navy -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865; United States. Navy -- Recruiting, enlistment, etc. -- Civil War, 1861-1865; United States. Navy -- Recruiting, enlistment, etc. -- Law and legislation; Seward, William H. (William Henry), 1801-1872 -- Correspondence; Lyons, Richard Bickerton Pemell Lyons, Earl, 1817-1887 -- Correspondence; Welles, Gideon, 1802-1878; Archibald, Edward Mortimer, 1810-1884
Link to Finding Aid: https://archivesspace.library.nd.edu/repositories/3/resources/1993; This digital collection may not include all items or all of the information available about the source collection. See the finding aid for more information.
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