Letter

PORTMAN, Chargé d’ Affaires ad interim of the United States in Japan to Their Excellencies Midsuno Idsumi No Kami, and Matsudaira Suwo No Kam, June 1, 1866

Author

PORTMAN, Chargé d’ Affaires ad interim of the United States in Japan

Recipient

Their Excellencies Midsuno Idsumi No Kami, and Matsudaira Suwo No Kam

Date

June 1, 1866

Type

Letter

Language

English

No. 2.

[Untitled]

Legation of the United States in Japan, Yedo, June 1, 1866.

It is with great pleasure that I now have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your interesting communication of the 13th day of this fourth month, informing me that you had! concluded to issue passports to those of the subjects of his Majesty the Tycoon who may wish to travel in foreign countries. Such a passport, when issued by your government, being, in fact, a certificate of respectability, I do not hesitate to give your excellencies the assurance that this communication will be received by my government with much satisfaction, and that your countrymen may rely upon receiving all needful aid and protection in the United. States.

With respect and esteem,

A. L. C. PORTMAN, Chargé d’ Affaires ad interim of the United States in Japan.

Their Excellencies Midsuno Idsumi No Kami, and Matsudaira Suwo No Kami, Ministers for Foreign Affairs, &c., &c., &c., Yedo.

Topics

19th Century Diplomacy Reconstruction

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.