Mr. Seward to Mr. Pruyn
Sir: Your telegraphic despatches, via San Francisco, of the 7th and 19th ultimo, respectively, have been received, and we await with much interest fuller accounts of the important events to which they refer.
I have the pleasure to enclose herewith a copy of a communication, dated the 4th instant, from Earl Russel to Lord Lyons, instructing the latter to express the thanks of her Majesty’s government for the frankness and cordiality manifested by you towards her Majesty’s legation on the occasion of the late proposition of the Japanese government that foreign trade with that country should be limited to the ports of Hakodadi and Nagasaki.
I am, sir, your obedient servant,
Robert H. Pruyn, Esq., Minister Resident in Japan, Kanagawa.