Keywords: Letter from William H Seward to Joseph Heco regarding assassination of Abraham Lincoln - page 1.png Joseph Heco From the book The narrative of a Japanese; what he has seen and the people he has met in the course of the last forty years by Joseph Heco The image was converted from a PCX bitmap format with levels and contrast adjusted in order to improve the clarity of the image http //memory loc gov/gc/calbk/112/112-0005 pcx Maruzen Publishing Tokyo Japan 1895 PD-old-100 Transcription Washington Sept 25 1865<br/> My dear Mr Heco <br/> I have just received<br/> your letter of the 31st of July and<br/> I thank you for remembering<br/> me among the troubled concerns<br/> yet in the midst of the pleasing<br/> climes of your far away native<br/> Home Our father in Heaven<br/> has allowed our country to<br/> be afflicted but He has never “<br/> theless remembered mercy and continued here PD-old-100 1865 Assassination of Abraham Lincoln Joseph Heco William H Seward Files uploaded by User Nihonjoe |