Title
Minutes of the Town Council of Crail
Subject
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Presidents--Assassination
Condolence notes
Municipal government
Creator
Town Council of Crail
Source
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
Publisher
Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum
Date
1865-05-08
Format
pdf
Language
eng
Identifier
RG59E177-84
Coverage
56.2667, -2.6333
Crail
United Kingdom
Scotland
Has Version
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), 188.
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), 247.
Transcription
Excerpt from minutes of meeting of the town council of the royal burgh of Crail, in the county of Fife, Scotland, dated eighth day of May, eighteen hundred and sixty-five.
Inter alia, the council expressed their detestation and abhorrence of the atrocious assassination of the President of the United States and the attempts to assassinate the Secretary, and also their sympathy with the American government and people under the calamity which has befallen them; and the provost was requested to communicate this expression of the feelings of the council in the proper quarter.
Extracted from the minutes by—
MAT. F. CONOLLY,
Clerk.
Status
Complete
Percent Completed
100
Weight
20
Original Format
paper and ink
1
17.75x25.5 cm