Letter
PRUYN, Minister Resident of the United States in Japan to Col. E. St. John Neale . H. B. Majesty’s Chargé d’Affaires and, June 6, 1862
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No. 70.]
Legation of the United States in Japan, Yedo, June 6, 1862.
Sir: The President of the United States has heard with much satisfaction of the arrest and death of two more of the persons engaged in the attack on the legation of her Britannic Majesty on the night of the 5th of July last, and I am instructed in his name to felicitate the British minister on the gratifying intelligence, so honorable to the Japanese government and so conducive to peace.
I have the honor to be, sir, your most obedient, humble servant,
ROBERT H. PRUYN, Minister Resident of the United States in Japan.
Lt. Col. E. St. John Neale. H. B. Majesty’s Chargé d’Affaires and Acting Consul General.
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FRUS u2014 Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the First Session Thirty-eighth
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U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the First Session Thirty-eighth .