Letter

POETMAN, Acting Chargé d’ Affaires of the United States in Japan to Robert Morrison, May 28, 1866

Author
POETMAN, Acting Chargé d’ Affaires of the United States in Japan
Recipient
Robert Morrison
Date
May 28, 1866
Type
Letter
Language
English
No. 4.

Mr. Portman to Mr. Morrison.

Legation of the United States in Japan, Yokohama, May 28, 1866.

Sir: I transmit herewith a letter addressed by me to J. Robertson, esq., acting agent of the Oriental Banking Corporation at this place, requesting him to pay into your hands the sum of two hundred and fifty thousand clean Mexican dollars ($250,000) received from the Japanese government for the United States and now held by him.

I have to request you to invest the amount named in your own or other undoubted bank sterling bills of exchange in the usual manner, drawn in favor of the Hon. William H. Seward, Secretary of State of the United States, and, on delivery of these bills of exchange, to furnish me with an account of the transaction for transmission by me to Washington.

I am, sir, respectfully, your obedient servant,

A. L. C. POETMAN, Acting Chargé d’ Affaires of the United States in Japan.
Topics
19th CenturyDiplomacyReconstruction
Sources
FRUS u2014 Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Second Session of the Thirty View original source ↗
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.