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46,149 lettersNo. 8. Mr. Van Valkenburgh to Itakura Iga No Kami. No. 11.] Legation of the United States in Japan, Osaka, January 14, 1868. Sir: On the occasion of the recent…
No. 7. Mr. Van Valkenburgh to Itakura Iga No Kami. No. 9.] Legation of the United States in Japan, Osaka, January 13, 1868. Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge…
Mr. Parkes to Mr. Van Valkenburgh. Osaka, January 14, 1868. Sir: It will afford me much pleasure to communicate to Mr. Lowder your dispatch of this date, in which you…
Mr. Van Valkenburgh to Sir Harry S. Parkes. No. 10.] Legation of the United States in Japan, Osaka, January 14, 1868. Sir: I desire, through you, to express my thanks…
Mr. Van Valkenburgh to Itakura Iga No Kami. No. 12.] Legation of the United States in Japan, Osaka, January 14, 1868. Sir: While most of the officers of your government,…
[Translation.] Itakura Iga No Kami to Mr. Van Valkenburgh. January 12, 1868. I have the honor to communicate the following to your excellency: The Tycoon was exceedingly grieved on learning…
Mr. Lowder to Mr. Van Valkenburgh. Her Britannic Majesty’s Vice-Consulate, Osaka, January 12, 1868. Dear Sir: It is with feelings of no common regret that I find myself compelled to…
Commodore Goldsborough to Mr. Van Valkenburgh. United States steamer Shenandoah, Off Osaka, January 11, 1868. Dear General: It is with pain and sorrow I write to inform you that about…
Mr. Van Valkenburgh to Mr. Seward. No. 2.] Legation of the United States, Osaka, January 14, 1868. Sir: It becomes my painful duty to give to you the account of…
No. 3. Notification. Citizens of the United States are informed that, in pursuance of treaty stipulations existing between the governments of the United States and Japan, the port of Hiogo…
Mr. Van Valkenburgh to Mr. Seward No. 1.] Legation of the United States Osaka, January 2, 1868. Sir: I have the honor to inform you that I left Yokohama on…
[Translation.] December 4, 1867. Sir: At the time when his Highness the Taikun succeeded his predecessor in the autumn of last year, he strongly declined accepting the office of Shogun;…
Mr. Van Valkenburgh to Mr. Seward No. 74.] Legation of the United States, Yedo, December 13, 1867. Sir: With reference to the state of affairs in this country, I have…
Official Notification. Legation of the United States in Japan, Yedo, November 27, 1867. Citizens of the United States are informed that, in conjunction with my colleagues, I have made arrangements…
Mr. Van Valkenburgh to Mr. Seward No. 70.] Legation of the United States, Yedo, December 4, 1867. Sir: In regard to the opening of a harbor on the west coast…
Reply of the President to Mr. Burlingame [undated]. Your Excellency: States, like individual men, have two distinct characters and fields of activity; the one domestic, the other social. If it…
Address of Mr. Burlingame to the President [undated]. Mr. President: If you had not already, through the Secretary of State, kindly relieved me from embarrassment, my first duty on the…
Mr. Seward to the Chinese Embassy Department of State, Washington, June 3, 1868. The undersigned, Secretary of State of the United States, has the honor to acknowledge the receipt of…
[Untitled] His Majesty the Emperor of China salutes the President of the United States! In virtue of the commission we have with reverence received from Heaven, and as China and…
The Chinese Embassy to Mr. Seward Washington, June 2, 1868. The undersigned, having been commissioned by his Majesty the Emperor of China, Anson Burlingame, of the first Chinese rank, envoy…