Three members of New York City's National War Committee, also representing New England governors, wait upon President and demand dismissal of Sec. Seward and Postmaster Gen. Blair. William B. Hesseltine, "Lincoln's War Governors," Abraham Lincoln Quarterly 4 (December 1946):197-98.

[Irwin deposits $600 in Springfield Marine Bank, payment on A. J. Van Deren note. Pratt, Personal Finances, 165.]