Sec. Seward, in presence of Atty. Gen. Bates, reads to President dispatch announcing success of new Maryland Constitution. Bates, Diary.

Gen. Butler interviews President prior to taking charge of policing polls at national election in New York. Benjamin F. Butler, Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences . . . Butler's Book (Boston: A. M. Thayer, 1892), 775.

W. O. Bartlett calls on Lincoln relative to appointment of James Gordon Bennett as Minister to France. Abraham Lincoln to Abram Wakeman, 26 January 1865, CW, 8:239-40.

Post Office Dept. establishes domestic money order system. J. Duane Squires, "Some Enduring Achievements of the Lincoln Administration, 1861-65," Abraham Lincoln Quarterly 5 (December 1848):200.

President endorses letter of Sgt. H. Warren Stimson, 142d Pennsylvania Volunteers: "West-Point. I wish this 'soldier boy' to have a chance." Endorsement Concerning H. Warren Stimson, 1 November 1864, CW, 8:85.