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

Mr. Frederick W. Seward to Mr. Pruyn

No. 73.]

Department of State, Washington, August 29, 1864.

Sir: Your despatch of the 26th of May last, (No. 38,) with its several accompaniments, has been received. The information it contains had already been received by the department, through Lord Lyons, from the British government, and the views of this government upon the very important subject to which your correspondence with Sir Rutherford Alcock relates, were communicated to you in the instruction from this department of the 20th instant, (No. 71.) It is, therefore, not necessary that I should do more at present than acknowledge the receipt of your No. 38.

I am sir, your obedient servant,

FREDERICK W. SEWARD, Acting Secretary.

Robert H. Pruyn, Esq., &c., &c., &c., Kanagawa.