Bunch to Lyons, April 5, 1862).] [Footnote 572: I have nowhere found any such statement by Seward.
Gregory's reference is to a note from Seward to Lyons of May 27, 1861, printed in the Blockade Papers.

This merely holds that temporary absence of blockading ships does not impair the blockade nor render "necessary a new notice of its existence."] [Footnote 573: _A Cycle of Adams' Letters_, I, pp.

119-20.

Henry Adams to Charles Francis Adams, Jr., March 15, 1862.] [Footnote 574: This "three months" statement returned to plague Russell later, British merchants complaining that upon it they had based plans in the belief that the Government had something definite in view.
Spence's reference to this "three months" idea, after his conferences in London, would indicate that Russell was merely indulging in a generalization due to the expected financial collapse of the North.

The Russian Ambassador in London gave a different interpretation.