Letter
Anson Burlingame to Kung, June 15, 1863
Mr. Burlingame to Prince Kung
Legation of the United States, Peking, June 15, 1863.
I have the honor to inform your Imperial Highness that your communication in relation to General Burgevine is entirely unsatisfactory. After all that has been said and written, and the promise verbally made to me, and the kindly relations existing between our two nations, it is not what I had a right to expect. But I cannot enter further into discussion of the subject, and wish to inform your Imperial Highness that if the charges stated in my last despatch are not withdrawn within two days, I shall take it for granted that the imperial government refuses to withdraw them, and shall feel at liberty to take such action as the case may require.
I have, &c.,
ANSON BURLINGAME.
Prince Kung, &c., &c., &c.
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FRUS u2014 Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the First Session Thirty-eighth
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U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the First Session Thirty-eighth .