Letter
De Long to Soyeshima Tane-omi, December 21, 1872
[Inclosure 2.]
Mr. De Long to Soyeshima Tane-omi.
United States Legation, Japan,
December 21, 1872.
December 21, 1872.
No. 135.]
Your Excellency: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your dispatch advising me of the change made by your government in its calendar, and to heartily congratulate you upon this reform, which, while it gives your government a more convenient system, also serves to bespeak the great antiquity of His Majesty’s throne. I am sure that all western states will hail this action with great pleasure.
I have, &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 P.