Lincoln interviews delegation from Congress interested in settling argument between Gen. Hunter and Gen. Lane. Philadelphia News, 8 February 1862.

Spends most of time with son Willie who is critically ill. Nicolay to Bates, 11 February 1862, John G. Nicolay Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

Borrows "Emerson's Representative Men" from Library of Congress. [Ralph Waldo Emerson, Representative Men: Seven Lectures, N.Y., 1858.]

Transmits to Senate "correspondence relating to the presentation of American citizens to the court of France." Abraham Lincoln to the Senate, 7 February 1862, CW, 5:130; Borrowers' Ledger 1861-63, 114, Archives of the Library of Congress, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.