Letter
Robert H. Pruyn to William H. Seward, June 9, 1862
Mr. Pruyn to Mr. Seward
No. 23.]
Legation of the United States in Japan, Yedo, June 9, 1862.
Sir: Agreeably to your instructions contained in despatch No. 7, of the 5th of February, I addressed to Lieutenant Colonel E. St. John Neale, her Britannic Majesty’s charge d’affaires and consul general during the absence of Mr. Alcock, a letter, of which enclosure No. 1 is a copy, and also transmit No. 2, copy of his reply.
I have as yet received no reply to a letter addressed by me to the minister of foreign affairs on the same subject.
I have the honor to be, sir, very respectfully, your most obedient servant,
ROBERT H. PRUYN, Minister Resident.
Hon. William H. Seward, Secretary of State, Washington.
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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 .