PRUYN, Minister Resident of the United States of America in Japan to J. K. de Wit, September 16, 1862

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Sir: I have the honor to thank you most cordially for the very friendly and prompt manner in which Captain Büys, in command of his Netherland Majesty’s steamer Vice-Admiral Koopman, offered to place a guard of marines at the American consulate at Kanagawa for its protection on the 15th instant, when the desperate acts of Japanese assassins on that day rendered such protection eminently desirable, and to request you to convey my sincere thanks to that distinguished officer,

It will be my duty, as well as great pleasure, to make known to the President of the United States this friendly action, which cannot fail to cement more closely the friendship which has so uninterruptedly marked the relations between the Netherlands and the United States.

I have the honor to be, sir, your obedient servant,