Charles Francis Adams to William Hunter, Esq., Acting Secretary of State, Washington, D. C. Addresses, memorials, and resolutions for the United States government, from Galway Working Classes of Ipswich, Temperance Society of Ashton-under-Lyne, Thetford, Norfolk, Ayr, Arbroath, Forfar, Scotland, Preston Union and Emancipation Society, Chichester Town Council, Merthyr Tydfil, Warwick. Addresses, memorials, and resolutions for Mrs. Lincoln, from Galway, Working Classes of Ipswich, Union and Emancipation Society of Ashton-under-Lyne, Temperance Society of Ash-ton-under-Lyne, Chichester Town Council, Merther Tydfil, Warwick. [For above enclosures see Appendix, separate volume.], June 2, 1865

Mr. Adams to Mr. Hunter

Sir: I have the honor to transmit an additional number of addresses, resolutions, &c, on the assassination of the late President, according to a list hereto subjoined.

These papers have now expanded to so great a number that it becomes a serious question how most conveniently and properly to respond to them. I should beg leave to suggest some single and comprehensive form which I might be directed to print and address to the respective parties. Any other and more varied course would have the effect of imposing upon the small force of this legation an amount of extra labor which could not be performed without at least a very considerable delay. Already the mere process of filing, cataloguing, and acknowledging them has occupied one of my secretaries the larger part of his time for some weeks.

I have the honor to be, sir, your obedient servant,