President requests Henry W. Hoffman, collector of customs at Baltimore and chairman, Maryland Unconditional Union Central Committee, to call at White House. Abraham Lincoln to Henry W. Hoffman, 25 September 1864, CW, 8:23.

Explains to John Hay that Thurlow Weed's trips to Canada and elsewhere relate to story of Gen. McClellan's military actions and political aspirations. William R. Thayer, The Life and Letters of John Hay, 2 vols. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1915), 1:129-36.