Letter

(Signed by 67 names.) to Forwarded by R. L. Hughes, proprietor of the “Halstead Times.”, April 25, 1865

Inhabitants of Halstead

His Excellency C. F. Adams, London:

We, the undersigned, inhabitants of Halstead, Essex, England, desire to express our deep horror and regret that the President of the United States has been deprived of life by an act of violence, and our sympathy with the citizens of the United States in the great loss they have sustained.

(Signed by 67 names.)

Forwarded by R. L. Hughes, proprietor of the “Halstead Times.”

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.