Mayor, Aldermen, and Citizens of Gloucester to Andrew Johnson

Mayor, Aldermen, and Citizens of Gloucester to Andrew Johnson

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Presidents--Assassination

Condolence notes

Municipal government

Mayor, Aldermen, and Citizens of the City of Gloucester, England

Record Group 59: General Records of the Department of State, 1763-2002, Entry 177: Foreign Messages on the Death of Abraham Lincoln, 1865, National Archives at College Park, College Park, MD

Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum

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The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln, Late President of the United States of America, and the Attempted Assassination of William H. Seward, Secretary of State (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1866), 219.

The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln, Late President of the United States of America, and the Attempted Assassination of William H. Seward, Secretary of State (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1867), 287-88.

To his Excellency Andrew Johnson,
 President of the United States of America:

Sir: We, the mayor, aldermen, and citizens of the city of Gloucester, in England, desire to convey to the people of your great country the feelings of sorrow and abhorrence with which we, in common with all classes of this kingdom, received the lamentable intelligence of the death, by the hands of an assassin, of your late distinguished President, Abraham Lincoln, and of the dastardly attack upon the life of another officer of your government, Mr. Secretary Seward.

While deploring with all civilized nations the commission of these heinous and detestable crimes, we would offer to the people of the United States an expression of our sympathy and good will; and we would also add our sincerest condolence with the widow and family of the late eminent statesman.

Given under our common seal, the 1st day of May, 1865.

[seal.]

W. C. TUNSTALL,
Mayor.

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