Reply of the President to Mr. Burlingame [undated]. Your Excellency: States, like individual men, have two distinct characters and fields of activity; the one domestic, the other social. If it…
Address of Mr. Burlingame to the President [undated]. Mr. President: If you had not already, through the Secretary of State, kindly relieved me from embarrassment, my first duty on the…
Mr. Seward to the Chinese Embassy Department of State, Washington, June 3, 1868. The undersigned, Secretary of State of the United States, has the honor to acknowledge the receipt of…
The Chinese Embassy to Mr. Seward Washington, June 2, 1868. The undersigned, having been commissioned by his Majesty the Emperor of China, Anson Burlingame, of the first Chinese rank, envoy…
I. Ling-Kwang-Sz’, September 10, 1868. Monsieur le Ministre and Cher Doyen: The Prussian minister, in his reply to my former communication respecting the negotiations in which I am engaged with…
H. [Translation.] Kwang-Shan-Sz’, August 26, 1868. My Dear Colleague: The minister of France having replied to you directly upon the subject of your letter of the 5th instant, and of…
Mr. Williams to Sir Rutherford Alcock Peking, August 13, 1868. My Dear Colleague: I have carefully looked over the papers which you gave me relating to the revision of the…
Mr. Lallemand to Sir Rutherford Alcock [Translation.] Peking, August 9, 1868. Mr. Minister and Dear Colleague: Your letter of the 5th instant arrived on the 7th. In replying, I have…
D. Ling-Kwang-Sz’, August 5, 1868. Mon cher Collègue et Doyen: It will be in your recollection that in November last I placed in the hands of the foreign representatives in…
Mr. Williams to Mr. Seward No. 33.] Legation of the United States, Peking, September 26, 1868. Sir: I have the honor to forward to you a series of papers (inclosures…