PETITJEAN, Vicaire Apostolique of Japan to E. B. Van Valkenburgh, October 14, 1867

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Sir: I should wish very much to present verbally to your excellency the new expression of our gratitude for all you have kindly done in behalf of our unhappy prisoners, but being unable to go to Yedo, I am obliged to desist of that desire of mine. However, before I return to Nagasaki, I make amends by taking the liberty of addressing your excellency with this note a succinct account of matters referring to the prosecution against the Christians of Urakame. Accept, sir, this relation and this note also as a testimony of the respectful thankfulness of all the Catholic missionaries in Japan, and particularly of him who has the honor to be,

Yours, respectfully,