Letter

PORTMAN, Chargé d’Affaires ad interim of the United States in Japan to Midsuno Idsumi no Kam, January 8, 1866

Author

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

Recipient

Midsuno Idsumi no Kam

Date

January 8, 1866

Type

Letter

Language

English

No. 1.

Mr. Portman to Midsuno Idsumi no Kami.

Legation of the United States in Japan, Yedo, January 8, 1866.

I have the honor to inform your excellency that my despatch, conveying, at your desire, to my government the expressions of sympathy and condolence of his Majesty the Tycoon and his government on learning the assassination of President Lincoln and the attack on the Hon. William H. Seward, Secretary of State, has been received and submitted to the President of the United States. The President was profoundly affected by those expressions.

While the dangers that then threatened have been averted by an All-merciful Providence, the United States is not, therefore, by any means less grateful to friendly powers for the good wishes they expressed in its behalf.

I am authorized to renew to your government the assurances of the friendship of the United States for the Emperor and people of Japan.

With respect and esteeem,

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

His Excellency Midsuno Idsumi no Kami, Minister 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.