Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Second Session Thirty-eighth Congress, Part III

Mr. Pruyn to Mr. Seward

No. 56.]

Legation of the United States in Japan, Kanagawa, September 2, 1864.

Sir: The bark Delaware, on her way to San Francisco from Shanghai, touched at this port. I intended to send despatches by her, but her sailing at less than a day’s notice prevents me from getting the necessary enclosures ready in time, and I shall, therefore, send these despatches by the mail, which leaves in a few days.

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

ROBERT H. PRUYN, Minister Resident in Japan.

Hon. William H. Seward, Secretary of State, Washington, D. C.

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Office U.S. Military Telegraph, War Department, October 15, 1864.

The following telegram was received at Washington 5.50 p. m., from San Francisco, October 14, 1864:

United States Legation, Kanagawa, September 2, 1864.

Sir: The ambassadors who made the French convention have been disgraced; convention repudiated; combined fleet gone to destroy batteries at Simonoseki.

Yours, &c.,

ROBERT H. PRUYN, Minister Resident in Japan.

Hon. William H. Seward, Secretary of State.