Mr. Seward to Mr. Harris.
U.S. Department of State · 1861
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Description
On 1 August 1861, Secretary of State William H. Seward wrote to Townsend Harris, the American minister in Japan. The letter appears as document 652 in the Foreign Relations volume for 1862. It belongs to the first year of the Civil War, when Seward ran American foreign ties from Washington.
Outward letters like this one told an envoy what his government wanted and what it could not do. Harris, at the far end of a mail route that took months, had to act on such word long after it was sent. The letter is a small, clear look at how orders moved from a war-time capital to a lone post in Japan.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | U.S. Department of State |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 1861 |
| COLLECTION | DECLASSIFIED |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 8534 |
| LICENSE | Public Domain |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian |
Source: https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1862/d652