Letter

Salvador de Tavira to Thomas H. Nelson, May 29, 1865

Author
Salvador de Tavira
Recipient
Thomas H. Nelson
Date
May 29, 1865
Type
Letter
Language
English

Letter from the Minister Resident of Spain.

Legation of Spain to Chili,
Santiago de Chili, May 29, 1865.

My Dear Sir: Through the newspapers which I have just received I learn with the deepest pain of the brutal assassination and horrible crime perpetrated in Washington against the most worthy President of your excellency’s nation, Abraham Lincoln, and his minister, William H. Seward.

As an evidence of the sincere sorrow which will be felt by my august sovereign and her government when they shall be informed of it, as well as of that experienced by myself, I immediately hoisted my flag in position of mourning.

I hasten to inform your excellency of this, with the earnest assurances of distinguished consideration and regard with which I am your excellency’s most obedient servant,

SALVADOR DE TAVIRA.

Thomas H. Nelson, Esq., &c.

Notes
1. [Translation.]
Topics
19th CenturyDiplomacyReconstruction
Sources
FRUS u2014 Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Second Session Thirty-eighth 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 Second Session Thirty-eighth.