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

Mr. Judd to Mr. Seward.

United States Legation,
Berlin, May 1, 1865.

No. 96.]

Sir: This forenoon Captain von Lucadou, personal aide-de-camp of his Royal Highness the Crown Prince of Prussia, presented himself at the legation and informed me that he was charged by their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess Royal of Prussia to request me to transmit on their behalf, to the government of the United States, their condolence at the sad event that had transpired, and desiring me also to convey to Mrs. Lincoln their kind sympathies in her affliction.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,

N. B. JUDD.

Hon. William H. Seward,
Secretary of State, Washington.