No 20 Oakwood, Iowa Sabbath Morning April 16th /65 My Dear Husband, I is with feelings of the deepest sorrow that I write you this morning, caused by the assassination of our Good and Noble, Lincoln: O, tis too terrible to write; more so to believe; but yet, alas! it is true.  It has ever been thus since the beginning of time, that the innocent suffer for the guilty.  The dispatches we had yesterday morning read thus as near as I can remember, Washington April 15th  The President was shot in the head while at Ford's Theater, and died this morning; Mr. Wilkes Booth, (an actor in the theater) has been arrested, as the probable murderer; at about the same time, a man made application for admittance to the residence of Sec, Seward, proffessing to have a message from his (Seward's) physician, but was denied admittance by Mr. Fred Seward, when the ruffian knocked him down, and made his way to Mr Sewards sick chamber, and overpowered two male attendants, and succeeded in cutting the Sec, throat, but not so badly as to cause instant death; there were two dispatches yesterday the first saying he had died yesterday morning, and the last yesterday evening, stating that he
