"Many have definitely asserted that went to England and France on a secret mission for the Confederacy. No proof of this has ever been found, but the little which has been learned of her sojourn in Europe strongly supports the theory of such a mission there. The ship which bore them to England from Bermuda was an English man-of-war, in which they sailed "at ’s special request." Then there were President Davis's personal letters to Messrs. and , requesting them that they show to Mrs. Greenhow every attention. In France she was given a private audience with .; in London, presented to . A letter written to her by James Spence, financial agent of the Confederates in Liverpool, shows her to have been actively engaged in support of the interests of the South from her arrival in England."