| Thursday, February 7, 1861.Springfield,
IL. | Lincoln invites Orville H. Browning, attorney who
later succeeds Stephen A. Douglas in U.S. Senate, to accompany him to
Washington. Browning agrees to go as far as Indianapolis. Browning,
Diary. Declines
invitation from people of Massachusetts to visit state for "want of time."
Abraham
Lincoln to John A. Andrew and the Senate and House of Representatives of
Massachusetts, 7 February 1861, CW, 4:186. Accepts invitation
to visit Columbus, Ohio. Acknowledges invitation from citizens of Dayton, Ohio:
"I will endeavor to pass through and at least bow to the friends there." Abraham
Lincoln to William Dennison, 7 February 1861,
CW, 4:186-87;
Abraham
Lincoln to John G. Lowe, Thomas A. Phillips, and W. H. Gillespie, 7
February 1861, CW, 4:187. Withdraws $104.70 from Springfield Marine Bank. Pratt,
Personal Finances, 175. |