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

Consul of Great Britain

British Consulate,
Panama, May 3, 1865.

My Dear Colleague: It was with the deepest sorrow that I learned the death of his Excellency Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, by the hand of an assassin, as communicated to me in your note of yesterday, and I take the liberty of expressing to you my respectful sympathy with the family and friends of the late President, and with the government and people of the United States in their bereavement, a sympathy which will be universally felt all over the world.

I have the honor to be, my dear colleague, yours, faithfully,

C. A. HENDERSON.

Colonel Alexander R. McKee,
United Slates Consul, Panama.