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

American Residents of London

London, April 27, 1865.

Dear Sir: In view of the distressing intelligence which has just reached us from America, we have to ask your excellency to convoke a meeting of Americans resident here, in order to obtain an expression of their feelings on this sad occasion. If convenient to your excellency, we propose Monday, May 1, at 3 p. m., for such meeting, at some place to be hereafter designated. Respectfully, yours, obediently,

• GEORGE PEABODY.
• RUSSELL STURGES.
• J. S. MORGAN.
• C. M. LAMPSON.
• JAMES McHENRY.
• J. R. BLACK.
• ELIHU BURRITT.
• H E. SOMERLY.
• BENJAMIN MORAN.
• CRAUMOND KENNEDY.
• HENRY T. PARKER.
• DANIEL BLISS.
• R. HUNTING.
• W. R. BALLARD.
• W. N. NEWMAN.
• FREEMAN H. MORSE.
• OSGOOD FIELD.
• E. G. TINKER.
• SEWELL WARNER.
• DENNIS R. ALWARD.
• JOHN NORRIS, Jr.
• WINSLOW LEWIS.
• WM. D. COOLIDGE.
• E. C. FISHER.
• C. M. FISHER, &c., &c.

His Excellency Charles Francis Adams,
Minister of the United States.

London, April 27, 1865.

Gentlemen: In accordance with the desire expressed in your note of this day, and with what I presume to be the general wish of Americans in London, I consent to your proposal, and hereby invite my countrymen, so disposed, to meet for the purpose designated on Monday next, May 1, at 3 p. m., at St. James’s Hall.

I am your obedient servant,

C. F. ADAMS.

Messrs. George Peabody,
Russell Sturges,
J. S. Morgan,
C. M. Lampson,
James McHenry,
&c., &c., &c.