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

Students of the Royal University of Pavia

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Royal University of Pavia, Pavia, May 12, 1865.

Honored Sir: A number of the students of this Royal University assembled yesterday to vote an address for the ceremonies about to take place in Florence in honor of the great Italian poet, (Dante;) and remembering the sad event in the United States that put an end to the life of Abraham Lincoln, they hereby express their profound sympathy for your people, who place justice and liberty above all things, and beg me to be the interpreter of these unanimous sentiments. With esteem and devotion,

GELANTONI,

Rector.

The United States Minister in Italy.