Lincoln writes narration and praecipe in Neff, Wanton & Co. v. Allen & Stone, signing "Logan & Lincoln." He also writes bond for costs, and S. T. Logan signs.Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

[John T. Stuart writes to Daniel Webster, secretary of state, recommending Lincoln to be chargé d' affaires at Bogota. "Stuart was evidently trying to secure a change of climate for his law partner, Lincoln, who, after the fiasco of his broken-off marriage toMary Todd was in a mood of profound depression."Claude M. Fuess, Daniel Webster, 2 vols. (Boston: Little, Brown, 1930), 2:94.]