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

Mr. Seward to Mr. Pruyn

No 48.]

Department of State, Washington, September 12, 1863.

Sir: Your communication, dated at Yokohama on the 24th of July last, was received here by telegraph, from San Francisco, on the 10th instant. The events to which it refers are extraordinary and important, but I shall defer giving you any instructions with regard to them until a despatch shall have been received from you more fully reporting the startling circumstances you have briefly communicated.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

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