Letter
De Long to his excellency Sawa Nobuyoshi, September 1, 1871
No. 2.
Mr. De Long to his excellency Sawa Nobuyoshi
No. 30.]
United States Legation, Yokohama, Japan, September 1, 1871.
Your Excellency: Your note of yesterday, advising me of your having vacated your former position of minister of foreign affairs, I have just received.
It gives me great pain to know that our official relations, so long and so pleasantly maintained, are terminated. I trust that in your retirement you will do me the honor to consider me as still being a warm, sincere, and personal friend, who will at any time be only too happy to serve you at your command.
I feel sure that all of my colleagues join me in the belief that no monarch ever had a more honest or faithful officer than His Majesty the Tenno had in the person of yourself.
I remain, &c., &c.,
C. E. De LONG.
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U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress with the Annual Message of the Pr.