Soyeshima Tane Omi to De Long, August 20, 1873

Soyeshima Tane-omi to Mr. De Long.

Your Excellency: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your excellency’s dispatch No. 64, dated the 12th instant, in which you advise me that on the 11th you signed the bill of sale of the bark Maria Luz, received from Messrs. Fletcher & Co. the proceeds of her sale, less their account of sales as per their receipt; paid Messrs. Walsh, Hall & Co. their account of expenses of vessel to date according to their receipt, and deposited the balance of ($4,713.28) four thousand seven hundred and thirteen Mexican dollars and twenty-eight cents in the Hong-Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation of Yokohama, as per copy of certificate to that effect, which receipts and certificate have also come to hand.

As your action is entirely in accordance with the protocol of June 25, 1873, signed by the envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of Peru, and the acting minister for foreign affairs of Japan, and with their joint note to you of July 14, 1873, I have only once more to thank your excellency most sincerely in my own name and in the name of my government for the trouble that you have been so kind as to give yourself in this matter.

With respect and consideration,