Letter
Anson Burlingame to Prince Kung, June 19, 1863
Mr. Burlingame to Prince Kung
Legation of the United States, Peking, June 19, 1863.
I hasten to acknowledge the receipt of your Imperial Highness’s despatch of yesterday’s date, and to express my satisfaction at the manner in which you have settled the question in dispute between us. It is by acting thus, in a spirit of fairness and justice, that the amicable relations between our two countries are to be strengthened and perpetual peace maintained.
I have, &c.,
ANSON BURLINGAME.
Prince Kung, Secretary in Chief for Foreign Affairs.
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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 .