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

Louis and Casimir Didett

[Translation.]

Nimes, May 3, 1865.

To the United States Minister in Paris:

We have the honor of transmitting to you in this envelope the address of our house, on the occasion of the death of the great American citizen, whom we and the whole world lament.

We join in this universal manifestation of sorrow, and ask you to send our homage to its address.

Receive the respectful greeting of your very humble servants,

LOUIS & CASIMIR DIDETT,

Father and son, hat manufacturers in Nimes.