Briefe [1] — received 1865-1869
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text: 1-1. Korrespondenz 1865 ① 2nd January — 1 leaf ② 24 Oct. — 1 leaf Copy: Nagasaki, 2nd January 1865 Sir, In reply to your letter of the 31st of December applying for leave of absence for the benefit of your health, and also with a view to the prosecution of your Japanese studies at this place, I very willingly grant you the two months leave applied for; with an extension of another month, should no urgent necessity for your services arise in the interval at Her Majesty's legation. Your long and uninterrupted service for three years without any leave fully entitles you to this, were I not otherwise assured that if your health permit, you will not fail to employ your leisure to the best advantage for the public service in the continued study of the written character here, where you will be for a time free from all interruption and anxious duties. As I am about to leave this country, I cannot allow this opportunity to pass without — expressing my perfect satis- faction with your services, my entire confidence in your zeal and ability, and 東京大学総合図書館 thanking you personally for the untiring devotion with which during the past ten months you have rendered me most valuable assistance, not only in confidential intercourse with the Japanese High Officers but in obtaining secret information from Japanese sources, of the greatest possible value in the course of negotiations. These have been almost continuous since my return, and you are entitled to a full share of credit in the happy results by which they have for the present been brought to a close. I am glad therefore to place the fact—on record and will not fail to bring it under the notice of Her Majesty's principal secretary of state for Foreign affairs— I have the honour etc. (signed) Rutherford Alcock.— To Alex. von Siebold Esq. Würzburg d. 24 Oct. 65. Unser weltberühmter Landsmann Ph. F. v. Siebold, <unclear>Chef</unclear> von winterl= indischen Generalstabe, der sich durch seine umfangreichen gelehrten Werke über Japan…
date: 1865
type: Text
language: de
description: pageCount: 153