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

Letter of Fredrika Bremer.

[Translation]

Thursday, April 27, 1865.

Dear * * *: Can it be true, what a telegram from New York reported last night? Mr. Lincoln murdered! dead! I hope it is not true; I cannot, will not believe it. Can you tell me how it is? If it should be so it is not for him or the cause I grieve. His work is done, the cause is gained, the war at an end, but woe to the South! It has killed its best protector during this awful moment. Oh, if Mr. Campbell and you could tell me that it is not true.

Yours, faithfully,

FR. BREMER.