Letter

Charles Francis Adams to William Hunter, Esq., Acting Secretary of State, Washington, D. C. (For enclosures see Appendix, separate volume.), May 4, 1865

Mr. Adams to Mr. Hunter

No. 944.]

Sir: I have the honor to transmit a number of addresses and resolutions from various assemblages of persons in this kingdom, intended as marks of sympathy for Mrs. Lincoln, the widow of the late President of the United States. A list of the same is subjoined.

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

CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS.

William Hunter, Esq., Acting Secretary of State, Washington, D. C.

(For enclosures see Appendix, separate volume.)

Resolutions, addresses, and memorials for Mrs. Abraham Lincoln, from

Darwen, Lancashire; Bradford; Bristol Workingmen’s Club; Bristol ragged school; city of Dublin; Union and Emancipation Society of London; American Chamber of Commerce; Americans in Glasgow; town of Bradford; city of Bristol; borough of Liecester; inhabitants of Liverpool; borough of Birmingham; borough of Wakefield; borough of Lymington; Kingstofla-upon-Hull; borough of Cambridge; village of Staplehurst; committee of deputies of British Jews in London; Bolton; Farquay; city of Glasgow; town of Nottingham; vestry of St. Luke, Chelsea; Peterborough; county of Roxburgh; borough of Dorchester; borough of Sheffield; Keighley, Yorkshire; bankers, merchants and traders in London; Newcastle-on-Lyne; city of York; borough of Dover; Stratford-upon-Avon; Dewsbury; borough of Congleton; Colchester; the United Methodist Free Church, Hartlepool; letter unknown; letter from St. John’s Workingmen’s Club; Wolverhampton; American residents in London.

Sources
FRUS u2014 Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the First Session Thirty-ninth C View original source ↗
U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the First Session Thirty-ninth C.