Charles Francis Adams to His Grace the Duke of Devonshire, May 15, 1865

Mr. Adams to the Chancellor of Cambridge

My Lord Duke: I have the honor to acknowledge the reception of your note of the 12th instant, and of the official letter therein referred to from the chancellor, masters, and scholars of the University of Cambridge, expressive of their indignation at the assassination of the President of the United States, and of their sympathy and condolence with my countrymen in the loss they have sustained. I shall seize the earliest opportunity to make known to them the substance of this communication, which, coming as it does from one of the great sources of moral and political instruction in this kingdom, cannot fail to be received in the kindest spirit, and remembered with most affectionate cordiality.

I have the honor to be, your obedient servant,