Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Second Session Thirty-eighth Congress, Part IV, Appendix to diplomatic correspondence of 1865; the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, late president of the United States of America, and the attempted assassination of William H. Seward, Secretary of State, and Frederick W. Seward, Assistant Secretary, on the evening of the 14th of April, 1865; expressions of condolence and sympathy inspired by these events

The Chancellor of Cambridge to Mr. Adams.

Devonshire House, May 12, 1865.

Sir: It is my agreeable duty, as Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, to transmit to your excellency the enclosed letter, expressing the indignation of the university at the assassination of President Lincoln, and its sympathy with your countrymen on the loss they have sustained.

I have the honor to be, sir, your excellency’s most obedient servant,

DEVONSHIRE.