Between 3 P.M. and 4 P.M. President reviews District Militia as it passes through White House grounds. Evening Star (Washington, DC), 14 May 1861, 3:2.

Between 9 P.M. and 10 P.M. speaks to group who had serenaded newly-appointed Washington postmaster Lewis Clephane. Evening Star (Washington, DC), 14 May 1861, 3:2.

[Mrs. Lincoln, in New York to purchase fittings for Executive Mansion, buys carriage for $900. Baltimore Sun, 9 May 1861, 20 May 1861.

Entertains in evening at Metropolitan Hotel. N.Y. Tribune, 14 May 1861.]