Lincoln and James A. Briggs hear Henry Ward Beecher preach at Plymouth Church in Brooklyn, and visit Universalist Church of Edwin H. Chapin in New York. Hiram Barney takes Lincoln to House of Industry at Five Points, and home to tea. James A. Briggs to S. P. Chase, 17 March 1860, Salmon P. Chase Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC; New York Tribune, 13 March 1860; The Evening Post (New York, NY), 16 August 1867, 2:4.