Letter
Foster to Charles Francis Adams, July 20, 1866
Mr. Foster to Mr. Adams.
Paymaster General’s Office, Whitehall, July 20, 1866.
Sir: By direction of the lords commissioners of her Majesty’s treasury, I have the honor to forward to your excellency a draft payable to your order for the sum of £27,802 1s. 8d. being the portion due to the United States of America on account of the Japanese indemnity money.
The draft, on being indorsed by your excellency, can be paid to your bankers, who, on presenting it at the Bank of England, will at once receive credit for the amount.
With the highest consideration, I have the honor to be, your excellency’s most obedient servant,
M. H. FOSTER.
His Excellency Charles Francis Adams, &c., &c., &c.
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FRUS u2014 Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Second Session of the Thirty
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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 Second Session of the Thirty.