Lincoln writes to Ewing regarding charges made against T. R. King. He requests that when charges are made against anyone recommended by him, action be suspended until he can investigate. He knows "the principal object of the fault-finders, to be to stab me." Abraham Lincoln to Thomas Ewing, 26 April 1849, CW, 2:44-45.

Mrs. Lincoln's painter buys second keg of lead paint. Bunn Journal.