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

Mr. Burlingame to Mr. Seward

No. 62.]

Legation of the United States, Peking, January 5, 1864.

Sir: I have the honor to inform you that I have been so fortunate as to secure the recognition, by the Chinese government, of the rights of Sweden under a treaty negotiated at Canton in 1847, and to forward the kind letter of Mr. Cunningham, marked A, acknowledging that service.

I have the honor to be, sir, your obedient servant,

ANSON BURLINGAME.

Hon. William H. Seward, Secretary of State, &c., &c.

A.

Consulate of Sweden and Norway, Shanghai, December 4, 1863.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your excellency’s letter of November 7, and to thank you for your very successful effort to procure from the Chinese high authorities the recognition of my official position under the treaty with Sweden, negotiated at Canton in, 1847.

I shall report to the government at Stockholm the very kind assistance you have rendered, as evincing the friendly feeling entertained by you towards Swedish interests in China.

I have the honor to be, sir, your obedient servant,

EDWARD CUNNINGHAM, Acting Consul General.

His Excellency Hon. Anson Burlingame, &c., &c., &c.