Letter

PORTMAN, Chargé d’Affaires ad interim in Japan to William H. Seward, December 6, 1865

Author

PORTMAN, Chargé d’Affaires ad interim in Japan

Recipient

William H. Seward

Date

December 6, 1865

Type

Letter

Language

English

Mr. Portman to Mr. Seward.

No. 68.]

Legation of the United States in Japan, Yedo, December 6, 1865.

Sir: I have the honor to transmit herewith (No. 1) translation of a letter from the minister for foreign affairs, announcing that the Mikado’s ratification of the treaties was promulgated in all parts of this empire on the 1st instant.

I have the honor to be, sir, very respectfully, your most obedient servant,

A. L. C. PORTMAN, Chargé d’Affaires ad interim in Japan.

Hon. William H. Seward, Secretary of State, Washington, D. C.

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.