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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.

Metadata

Creator
Quin, Michael
Material Type
Mixed Materials
Genre/Physical Characteristic
Legal documents
Dimensions
5 documents
Language
English
Identifier
/repositories/3/resources/1993
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
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
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