The Lincolns arrive late at night and take lodgings at Brown's Hotel. Allen C. Clark, Abraham Lincoln in the National Capital (Washington, D.C.: W. F. Roberts Co., 1925), 3.

(Later they take rooms at Mrs. Sprigg's boarding house on site of Library of Congress. Samuel C. Busey, Personal Reminiscences and Recollections of Forty-six Years Membership in the Medical Society of the District of Columbia, and Residence in This City, with Biographical Sketches of Many of the Deceased Members (Washington, D.C.: n. p.), 25.)