Letter
Midsuno Idsumi No Kami to A. L. C. Portman, December 4, 1857
No. 2.
[Translation.]
I have received your letter, No. 120, of the 30th November, informing me of the result of your negotiations with my colleagues at Osacca during your recent visit to Hiogo.
I am greatly obliged to you for your kindness in so promptly communicating this to me, thereby again showing your desire to promote friendly feeling between our respective countries.
I shall be prepared to enter upon the contemplated negotiations, as stated to you by the governor for foreign affairs, Edzre Kanga no Kami, as soon as the official communication to that effect shall have been received from Osacca.
Which I have to state with respect and esteem.
The seventeenth day of the 10th month of the first year of Ke Yu, (December 4,) 1857.
MIDSUNO IDSUMI NO KAMI.
A. L. C. Portman, Esq., Chargé d’Affaires of the United States, &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.