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

Argyle Square Junior Members Society

Argyle Square Junior Members’ Society,
24 Grafton Place, Euston Square, London, May 6, 1865.

Sir: I beg to hand you a copy of a resolution passed at a general meeting of this society, held last evening, expressing condolence with the American nation on the late disastrous assassination of Mr. Lincoln.

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

H. FRANCIS MORSE,

Hon. Sec.

Hon. C. F. Adams.

Resolved, That this meeting desires to give utterence to the feelings of grief With which it has heard of the assassination of President Lincoln, and to convey to Mrs. Lincoln, and to the United States government and people, an expresssion of their deepest sympathy and condolence.