Letter
PORTMAN, Chargé d’affaires ad interim in Japan to William H. Seward, June 20, 1865
Mr. Portman to Mr. Seward
No. 35.]
Legation of the United States, Yedo, June 20, 1865.
Sir: I have the honor to transmit, herewith, No. 1, copy of a letter from her Britannic Majesty’s charge d’affaires, and No. 2, copy of my reply, in reference to the atrocious assassination of Mr. Lincoln.
The extreme fiendishness of that deed, and of the attack on yourself, paralyzes the judgment, and I can only pray that you may have entirely recovered.
I have the honor to be, sir, very respectfully, your most obedient servant,
A. L. C. PORTMAN, Chargé d’affaires ad interim in Japan.
Hon. William H. Seward, Secretary of State, Washington.
(For enclosure No. 1 see Appendix, separate volume.)
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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 First Session Thirty-ninth C.