Letter
De Long to To their Excellencies the, July 2, 1871
No. 2.
No. 4.]
United States Legation, Yokohama, Japan, July 2, 1871.
Your Excellencies: The undersigned, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of the United States of America in Japan, begs leave to acknowledge the receipt of your excellencies’ note of date the 30th of June last, notifying your intention to “require a revision of the treaty at present existing between our two governments.”
At the same time the undersigned begs leave to remind your excellencies of the fact that at an interview, held with you at the foreign office on the 5th of May last, the undersigned, in behalf of the Government of the United States, had the honor of giving you a similar notice.
With respect and consideration,
C. E. De LONG.
To their Excellencies the Ministers for Foreign Affairs.
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