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46,149 lettersPrince Kung to Mr. Williams [Translation.] November 28, 1867, (Tungchi, 6th year, 11th moon, 2d day.) Prince Kung, chief secretary of state for foreign affairs, herewith sends a reply: I…
Mr. Burlingame to Mr. Seward Legation of the United States, Peking, November 21, 1867. Sir: In the interests of my country and civilization, I do hereby resign my commission as…
Mr. Williams to Mr. Seward No. 1.] Legation of the United States, Peking, November 28, 1867. Sir: I have the honor to inform you that by the resignation of the…
[Extract.] Mr. Ewing to Mr. Seward. No. 38.] Legation of the United States, The Hague, September 12, 1868. Sir: * * * * * * I am in receipt of…
[Extract.] Mr. Ewing to Mr. Seward. No. 37.] Legation of the United States, The Hague, July 15, 1868. Sir: I have the honor to inform you that I have presented,…
[Extract.] Mr. Ewing to Mr. Seward. No. 25.] Legation of the United States, The Hague, December 29, 1867. Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your dispatch…
[Extract.] Mr. Ewing to Mr. Seward. No. 23.] Legation of the United States, The Hague, November 30, 1867. Sir: **** I have the honor to inclose the speech delivered in…
Mr. Schofield to Mr. Seward War Department, Washington City, October 7, 1868. Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge your letter of the 5th instant, inclosing translation of a note…
Mr. Seward to Mr. de Stoeckl Department of State, Washington, October 8, 1868. Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of September, (October,) accompanied by…
[Translation.] Captain Pestchouroff to Mr. de Stoeckl New York, September 28, 1868. Sir: I have the honor to inform you that, in accordance with your orders, I left Sitka on…
[Translation.] Mr. Stoeckl to Mr. Seward. Imperial Legation of Russia to the United States, Washington, September, October, 1868. Mr. Secretary of State: I have the honor to transmit to you,…
Mr. Hunter to Mr. de Stoeckl Department of State, Washington, August 3, 1868. Sir: I have the honor to transmit herewith for your information, and that of the government which…
Mr. Seward to Mr. de Stoeckl Department of State, Washington, June 24, 1868. Will Mr. de Stoeckl have the goodness to recall the attention of the imperial government to the…
[Translation.] Mr. Stoeckl to Mr. Seward Washington, May 29, June 10, 1868. Mr. Secretary: I hasten to inclose to you, for the information of the federal government, the copy of…
Mr. Seward to Mr. Stoeckl Department of State, Washington, March 3, 1868. Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your communication of the 5–17th ultimo, in relation…
[Translation.] Mr. Stoeckl to Mr. Seward Washington, February 8–20, 1868. Mr. Secretary of State: To give sequence to the note which I had the honor to address to you on…
[Translation.] Mr. Stoeckl to Mr. Seward Washington, February 5–17, 1868. Mr. Secretary of State: I have the honor to annex hereto an extract of a report which has been addressed…
[Untitled] New Archangel, Sitka, October 26 (14–26,) 1867. We, the undersigned, United States and Russian commissioners, Captain Alexis Pestchouroff, of the imperial Russian navy, appointed by his Imperial Majesty the…
Captain Peslchouroff to General Rousseau New Archangel, Sitka, October 14–26, 1867. General: Referring to remark 2, at the foot of inventory A, attached to the protocol of transfer, I beg…
Brigadier General Rousseau to Mr. Seward Headquarters Department of the Columbia, Portland, Oregon, December 5, 1867. Sir: I have the honor to report that, on the receipt from you of…