President, Secretaries Seward and Stanton, Captain John A. Dahlgren, and others spend two hours at Navy Yard in afternoon observing experiments with "Rafael" repeater cannon. Later Dahlgren takes party on board steamboat to cool off and rest. Evening Star (Washington, DC), 8 August 1862, 2d ed., 2:2; Extracts from Dahlgren Diary, John G. Nicolay Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

Mrs. Lincoln orders 23 book titles and 1 box from T. J. Crowen, Publisher, Bookseller, and Stationer, 699 Broadway, New York: "1 set Waverly $16," "1 set Cooper $34," "1 set Shakespeare $12," "1 Spencers Poem $8," "1 Cor. Am. Revolution $15," "1 Sigourney Poems $5," "1 Land & Book $3.25," "1 Field Book $10," "1 Kanes Expeditions $10," "1 Box $0.75," "1 Hist. of New York $4.50," "1 Indian Tales $2.25," "1 Hist. of Revolution $6," "1 Hist. of Washington $9," "1 Hist. of England $5," "1 Hist. of Voyages $2.25," "2 Albums $9," "1 Portrait Gallery $16," "1 Travels $2.25," "1 Hist. of Creation $2.50," "1 Hist. of Birds $0.63," "1 Hist. of Beasts $0.75," "1 Hist. of Art $0.50," "1 Text Book $0.37." For the last 14 items Lincoln pays $61; the remainder, totalling $52, is paid from annual appropriation of $250 for books for White House, administered by Commissioner French. Pratt, Personal Finances, 180-81.