Letter

[Untitled], May 26, 1866

Author

M.’s Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary in Japan

Date

May 26, 1866

Type

Letter

Language

English

No. 2.

[Untitled]

Yokohama, May 26, 1866.

Sir: With reference to Mr. Rickard’s letter of the 8th of January last to the address of the representatives of Great Britain, France, the United States of America, and the Netherlands, advising us of the receipt from the Japanese government of five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) on account of the above-mentioned four powers, and with reference, also, to your own letter of the 16th instant, advising us of the receipt from the Japanese government of a second sum of the same amount, making in all a million dollars ($1,000,000) now held by you on account of the said four powers, we hereby request you to pay to the order of each of the undersigned one-fourth of the said total sum, or two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, ($250,000.)

We have the honor to be, sir, your most obedient, humble servants,

HARRY S. PARKES, H. B. M.’s Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary in Japan.

LEON ROCHES, Ministre Plenipotentiare de S. M. l’Empereur des Français.

A. L. C. PORTMAN, Acting Chargé d’ Affaires of the United States in Japan,

D. DE GRAEF VON POLSBROEK, H. N. M.’s Political Agent and Consul General in Japan.

Topics

19th Century Diplomacy Reconstruction

Sources

FRUS u2014 Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Second Session of the Thirty View original source ↗

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 Thirty.