Letter

VAN VALKENBURGH, Minister Resident of the United States in Japan to Harry S. Parkes, K. C. B. , Her Britannic Majesty’s Enroy Extraordinary and, October 22, 1866

Author

VAN VALKENBURGH, Minister Resident of the United States in Japan

Recipient

Harry S. Parkes, K. C. B. , Her Britannic Majesty’s Enroy Extraordinary and

Date

October 22, 1866

Type

Letter

Language

English

Mr. Van Valkenburgh to Sir Harry Parkes.

Legation of the United States in Japan, Yedo, October 22, 1866.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch of the 18th instant, informing me that the senior commissariat officer of her Majesty’s government has been instructed to pay to the representative of the United States the sum of $11,666 66, being the amount received into the treasury chest at Yokohama in excess of the proportion due to her Britannic Majesty’s government of the second and third instalments of the Simonoseki indemnity. I have received a communication from Major Murray, requesting to know when it would be convenient for me to receive the money, and I have notified him that I would receive it soon at Yokohama.

I have the honor to be, sir, your most obedient, humble servant,

R. B. VAN VALKENBURGH, Minister Resident of the United States in Japan.

Sir Harry S. Parkes, K. C. B., Her Britannic Majesty’s Enroy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary 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.