Letter

Robert H. Pruyn to William H. Seward, September 2, 1864

Author

Robert H. Pruyn

Recipient

William H. Seward

Date

September 2, 1864

Type

Letter

Mr. Pruyn to Mr. Seward

No. 56.]

Legation of the United States in Japan, Kanagawa, September 2, 1864.

Sir: The bark Delaware, on her way to San Francisco from Shanghai, touched at this port. I intended to send despatches by her, but her sailing at less than a day’s notice prevents me from getting the necessary enclosures ready in time, and I shall, therefore, send these despatches by the mail, which leaves in a few days.

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

ROBERT H. PRUYN, Minister Resident in Japan.

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

[Untitled]

Office U.S. Military Telegraph, War Department, October 15, 1864.

The following telegram was received at Washington 5.50 p. m., from San Francisco, October 14, 1864:

United States Legation, Kanagawa, September 2, 1864.

Sir: The ambassadors who made the French convention have been disgraced; convention repudiated; combined fleet gone to destroy batteries at Simonoseki.

Yours, &c.,

ROBERT H. PRUYN, Minister Resident in Japan.

Hon. William H. Seward, Secretary of State.

Topics

19th Century Civil War Diplomacy

Sources

FRUS u2014 Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Second Session Thirty-eighth 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 Thirty-eighth.