Mr. Harris to Mr. Seward.
U.S. Department of State · 1861
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Townsend Harris sent this dispatch from Japan to Secretary of State William H. Seward on 23 November 1861. It is Document 643 in the 1862 volume of Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, accompanying the annual message.
Harris wrote in late November, as the Trent affair was breaking in the Atlantic world he could not hear of for months. In Edo his business remained the treaty relationship and the condition of the mission he had founded. He was by then a sick man nearing the end of his service. His remaining letters have the quality of a founder setting his house in order. The dispatch is among the last of his printed reports in the volume, closing the first chapter of American diplomacy in Japan.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | U.S. Department of State |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 1861 |
| COLLECTION | DECLASSIFIED |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 6797 |
| LICENSE | Public Domain |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian |
Source: https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1862/d643