Letter
SEWARD, Secretary of State to Isaac Ferris, September 7, 1867
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Department of State, Washington, September 7, 1867.
Dear Sir: I have received your letter of the 4th instant relative to a repeal of the law of Japan prohibiting the adoption or profession of the Christian religion. Nothing has yet been heard from General Van Valkenburgh on that subject. This department will, however, transmit to him a copy of your letter, with an instruction which, it is hoped, will lead him to take steps for the object adverted to, if the state of public affairs in Japan should, in his opinion, warrant such a proceeding.
I am, dear sir, your very obedient servant,
WILLIAM H. SEWARD, Secretary of State.
Isaac Ferris, Esq., New York.
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FRUS u2014 Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Second Session of the Fortie
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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 Second Session of the Fortie.