[From the New-York Times, September 20, 1881.]
[Long Branch, N.J., _September 19, 1881_.]
Hon. Chester A. Arthur,
_No. 123 Lexington Avenue, New York:_
It becomes our painful duty to inform you of the death of President
Garfield and to advise you to take the oath of office as President of
the United States without delay. If it concur with your judgment, we
will be very glad if you will come here on the earliest train to-morrow
morning.
WILLIAM WINDOM,
_Secretary of the Treasury._
WILLIAM H. HUNT,
_Secretary of the Navy._
THOMAS L. JAMES,
_Postmaster-General._
WAYNE MacVEAGH,
_Attorney-General._
S.J. KIRKWOOD,
_Secretary of the Interior._
[The Secretaries of State and of War were absent from Long Branch.]