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No. 1

Hon J.P. Benjamin
Department of State
Richmond, C.S.A.

Vichy July 30. 1862

Sir

I have just received notice
from Mr Fearn that he leaves London
on the 2nd of August for the Confederate
States, and have only time to write a few
hasty lines in consequence of the lateness
of the advice given.

In consequence
of the want of communication between
Nassau and the rest of the Word
I was detained there three weeks, and only
reached London by the [...shire?] Mail
Steamer onthe 29th June. I found
public opinion there very much in the
same condition as when I left that
place in January, with a tendency to
depreciation in consequence of the [illegible]
of reverses our army had experienced.