Letter
VAN VALKENBURGH, Minister Resident of the United States to Sir Harry S. Parkes, K. C. B, January 14, 1868
Mr. Van Valkenburgh to Sir Harry S. Parkes.
No. 10.]
Legation of the United States in Japan, Osaka, January 14, 1868.
Sir: I desire, through you, to express my thanks to J. Frederick Lowder, esq., her Britannic Majesty’s acting vice-consul at Osaka, for the prompt and energetic measures adopted by him on the occasion of the recent sad accident, by which he was enabled to recover the body of Rear-Admiral H. H. Bell, and also in furnishing to me the first information I received of the misfortune.
I shall take pleasure in transmitting to my government an account of his humane exertions.
I have the honor to be, sir, your most obedient, humble servant,
R. B. VAN VALKENBURGH, Minister Resident of the United States.
His Excellency Sir Harry S. Parkes, K. C. B., &c., &c., &., Osaka.
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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 Third Session of the Fortiet.