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

Bank of British Columbia

The Bank of British Columbia,
80 Lombard, Street, E. C., London, April 28, 1865.

Sir: We are deputed by the court of directors of this bank to convey to you, and through you to the government of the United States of America, the expression of their sincere sympathy at the heavy calamity which has befallen, not only your country but our own, and, in fact, the whole world, by the cruel assassination of your high-minded and patriotic President.

We have the honor to be, sir, your excellency’s most obedient servants,

• THOS. W. L. MARKAM, Chairman.
• ROBERT ESTERSFIE, Deputy Chairman.
• HENRY McCHELSEY, Director.

His Excellency Hon. Charles F. Adams,
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister
Plenipotentiary from the United States.