Letter from J. Y. Mason to James Buchanan

J. Y. Mason acknowledges receiving Secretary of State James Buchanan's letter with a request for the US Navy to not enter "ports of Peru" that are closed to "foreign commerce." "Instructions have been given to the Commanding officer of the U. S. naval force in the Pacific to give the necessary orders to conform to the wishes of the Peruvian Government in this respect," as Mason notes. Transcript included.