Letter
Inoweye Kawatsi No Kami to Van Valkenburgh, November 17, 1866
[Enclosure No. 2.—Translation.]
Ministers of Foreign Affairs to Mr. Van Valkenburgh
His Excellency R. B. Van Valkenburgh, Minister Resident of the United States of America :
We received your excellency’s letter of the 12th of November, and tender you our thanks for the friendly feeling that prompted you to suggest a project for the relief of the poorer classes in our empire, who, owing to the advanced price of rice, are subject to much misery. With regard to the importation of rice from foreign countries, as proposed in that letter, a proclamation has been issued of which we now hand you a copy.
Which we have to state in reply, with respect and esteem,
INOWEYE KAWATSI NO KAMI.
MATSUDAIRA SURVO NO KAMI.
MATSUDAIRA NUI NO KAMI.
The 11th day of the 10th month of the 2d year of Reill, (17th of November, 1866.)
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FRUS u2014 Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Second Session of the Fortie
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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 Fortie.