Lincoln receives N. B. Judd, minister to Prussia, who expresses desire to return to private life. Dennett, Hay Diaries and Letters, 134.

In evening Sec. Seward reads to President dispatch from Gen. Cassius M. Clay (resigned), minister to Russia, on American politics, European diplomacy, and naval improvements of century. Hay, Letters and Diary.

Lincoln suggests to Sec. Stanton that some attention be given to case of J. H. Sothoron's family. [See October 23, 1863.] Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton, 22 November 1863, CW, 7:28.