Edward Stanley to Benjamin Moran, July 4, 1868

Lord Stanley to Mr. Moran

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 2d instant, forwarding two volumes, one of which, in pursuance of a resolution of the United States Congress, is intended as a present to her Majesty’s government from that of the United States, as a mark of the grateful appreciation entertained by the people of the United States of the generous expressions of condolence and sympathy which they received from this country on the melancholy occasion of the assassination of Mr. Abraham Lincoln, late President of the United States.

In requesting you to convey to your government the thanks of that of her Majesty for the highly interesting correspondence contained in the volumes in question, I have to add that her Majesty’s government fully appreciates the kindness of the government of the United States in presenting them with such a record of the general feelings, shared in most deeply by this country, which the assassination of Mr. Lincoln called forth.

I beg to add that I have forwarded to Earl Russell the volume intended for his lordship.

I have the honor, &c.,