M. Romero confers with Lincoln concerning proposed intervention of European powers in Mexican affairs. Ernest G. Hildner, Jr., "The Mexican Envoy Visits Lincoln," Abraham Lincoln Quarterly 6 (September 1950):188.

President Lincoln writes to Secretary of State William H. Seward regarding a job for journalist Zebina Eastman, of Chicago, Illinois. Lincoln writes, "If a position, with even moderate pay, could be found for him in England, he is just the man to reach the sympathies of the English people, to the extent that he can come in contact with them. He is more than a common man, in his sphere." Eastman to Lincoln, 10 December 1861, Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC; Abraham Lincoln to William H. Seward, 20 August 1861, CW, 4:494.