Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the President, December 6, 1880

No. 426.
Mr. Bingham to Mr. Evarts.

United States Legation,
Tokei, December 29, 1879. (Received January 27, 1880.)

No. 1042.]

Sir: I have the honor to acquaint you that on the 15th instant I received a dispatch from Mr. Duns, the United States consular agent at Hakodate, in which he says that on the 7th instant the consulate was burned, and that he had lost everything, save fifteen books, and that he had “lost all the letters and archives.”

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I have, &c.,

JNO. A. BINGHAM.