Mason to Lindsay, May 29, 1864.] [Footnote 1180: _Ibid._, Lindsay to Mason, May 30, 1864.] [Footnote 1181: Editorials of May 28 and 30, 1864, painted a dark picture for Northern armies.] [Footnote 1182: Mason Papers.

Sample letter, June I, 1864.

Signed by F.W.Tremlett, Hon.

Sec.] [Footnote 1183: _Ibid._, Tremlett to Mason, June 2, 1864.] [Footnote 1184: State Department, Eng., Vol.

86, No.705.Adams to Seward, June 2, 1864.] [Footnote 1185: June 3, 1864.] [Footnote 1186: Mason Papers.