Letter
Seward, to Robert H. Pruyn, September 9, 1863
Mr. Seward to Mr. Pruyn
No. 47.]
Department of State, Washington, September 9, 1863.
Sir: Your interesting despatches of the 25th of June, (No. 23,) the 26th of June, (No. 44,) and the 27th of June, (No. 45,) have been submitted to the President.
In my instructions of the 1st of September (No. 46) I have anticipated the events occurring in Japan, which these papers have brought to my knowledge; and no special reply to them seems necessary, except that I shall invite the attention of the other treaty powers to the suggestion which you make concerning the expediency of demanding a ratification of the treaties by the Mikado, and of proper demonstrations to secure that ratification.
I am, sir, your obedient servant,
WILLIAM H. SEWARD,
Robert H. Pruyn, Esq., &c., &c., Yokohama.
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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 .