Letter
Devonshire to Charles Francis Adams, May 12, 1865
The Chancellor of Cambridge to Mr. Adams.
Devonshire House, May 12, 1865.
Sir: It is my agreeable duty, as Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, to transmit to your excellency the enclosed letter, expressing the indignation of the university at the assassination of President Lincoln, and its sympathy with your countrymen on the loss they have sustained.
I have the honor to be, sir, your excellency’s most obedient servant,
DEVONSHIRE.
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FRUS u2014 Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Second Session Thirty-eighth
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U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Second Session Thirty-eighth.