Lincoln interviews Sen. Browning (Ill.) and Lt. George P. Ihrie (resigned) about paymaster appointment. Browning, Diary.

Receives Professor Thaddeus S. C. Lowe. Bruce, Tools of War, 87.

Sends communications to House of Representatives regarding foreign correspondence on subjects of insurrection in U.S. and maritime rights. Abraham Lincoln to the House of Representatives, 25 July 1861, CW, 4:459; Abraham Lincoln to the House of Representatives, 25 July 1861, CW, 4:459-60.