Letter
Inoweye Kawatsi No Kami to R. B. Van Valkenburgh, October 1, 1866
[Translation.]
Sir: We have to inform your excellency that it has been published that his Majesty the Tycoon is dead, and herewith send you a copy of that proclamation.
Which we state with respect and esteem, on the 27th day of the eighth month of the second year of Kaiao, (October, 1866.)
INOWEYE KAWATSI NO KAMI.
MATSU DA IRA SUWO NO KAMI.
MATSU DA IRA NO-EO NO KAMI.
His Excellency R. B. Van Valkenburgh, Minister Resident of the United States of America.
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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.