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

British Honduras Company

British Honduras Company, Limited,
London, E. C., 2 Great St. Helen’s, April 28, 1865.

Sir: I am intrusted by my colleagues, the directors of the British Honduras Company, Limited, with the expression of our deep sympathy with you and your nation on the sad event of the assassination of your late excellent President.

Somewhat of the tenderness of private personal feeling mingles with our sense of a great public calamity in which the whole civilized world shares; as Mr. Lincoln shewed great kindness to our manager when seeking labor in the United States, and took an interest in the company’s affairs, we thus deem ourselves called on, peculiarly, to express that sincere sympathy which is universal, for the sad loss which the people of the United States have sustained by the death of so honest, so humane, so sagacious, so good, and so great a chief. Permit me to add to yourself the expression of our personal regard. I am, sir, your excellency’s most obedient servant,

J. R. ROBERTSON,

Chairman.

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