Letter
Drouyn de Lhuys to W. S. Pennington, December 19, 1864
[Translation.]
Mr. Drouyn de Lhuys to Mr. Pennington
Paris, December 19, 1864.
Sir: At the time the envoys of the Tycoon were in Paris, preliminary discuss ons (pour parlers) took place, in effect, with them, upon the subject of the pending questions, but these preliminary discussions have had no result. The events which have just taken place in Japan, and in which your government has participated, have created for all a completely new situation, the development of which, it seems to me, we can but wait.
Receive, sir, the assurances of the most distinguished consideration with which I have the honor to be, your very humble and very obedient servant,
DROUYN DE LHUYS.
W. S. Pennington, Esq., Chargéd Affaires of the United States, &c., Paris.
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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-ninth C.