Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Second Session Thirty-eighth Congress, Part IV, Appendix to diplomatic correspondence of 1865; the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, late president of the United States of America, and the attempted assassination of William H. Seward, Secretary of State, and Frederick W. Seward, Assistant Secretary, on the evening of the 14th of April, 1865; expressions of condolence and sympathy inspired by these events

Sheffield Cutler’s Company

Cutlers’ Hall, Sheffield, April 29, 1865.

Dear Sir: I am directed by the Cutlers’ Company to send you the accompanying resolution passed yesterday by the company on the assassination of Mr. President Lincoln, and have to request that you will forward it to the proper quarter.

I am, dear sir, yours faithfully,

Charles Atkinson,

Master Cutler.

C. J. Abbot, Esq., American Consul, Sheffield.

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Resolved, That this company desires to express its deep sorrow and indignation at the assassination of Mr. Lincoln, President of the United States, and to record, in common with the whole British nation, its profound sympathy with the government and people of America at the very serious loss they have sustained by the atrocious crime which has just been perpetrated.