Matthew H. Richey to Mortimer M. Jackson

Matthew H. Richey to Mortimer M. Jackson

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Presidents--Assassination

Condolence notes

Municipal government

M. H. Richey, Mayor of Halifax

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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Halifax, Nova Scotia

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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), 231.

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), 303.

Hon. M. H. Richey, mayor of Halifax, to United States consul.

Mayor's Office,
Halifax, Nova Scotia,
April 18, 1865.

Sir:

I have the honor to enclose, by request of the city council, a resolution passed by that body, at its session yesterday, upon receiving intelligence of the tragic and terrible event which has filled with horror and lamentation the great nation of which you are the chief representative at this post.

Permit me, in conveying to you this expression of sympathy on behalf of the city council, to add emphatically my own, as deeply sensible of the overwhelming grief which must pervade the United States of America upon so truly calamitous an occurrence as the violent death of their honored President.

I have the honor to be, sir, your most humble and most obedient servant,

M. H. Richey,
Mayor.

M. M. Jackson, Esq.,

United States Consul, &c., &c., &c.

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