Lincoln writes praecipe for Albert G. Williams, plaintiff, and files notice with clerk of Sangamon Circuit Court to issue summons, and enters himself security for costs, in suit of Williams v. Cabiness & Cabiness.IHi—Original.

[Greene Circuit Court is in session.]

Lincoln files complainant's amended bill in Hornsby v. Ragsdale et al., in Sangamon Circuit Court.Record.

[Fourteenth issue of The Old Soldier is published. Old Soldier (Springfield, IL), Issue 14, 13 August 1840.]

[Senate remains in session all night and at 10 A.M. passes Oregon bill with House provision excluding slavery by applying "restrictions and prohibitions" of Northwest Ordinance.Globe.]

J. Henry Brown, Pennsylvania artist, arrives with letter of introduction from John M. Read, Pennsylvania Republican. Lincoln consents to sit for miniature painted on ivory. "We walked together. . . ," wrote Brown, "to a daguerrean establishment. I had a half dozen of ambrotypes taken of him before I could get one to suit me." InFtwL—Brown Journal, Ms., Photocopy.

Lincoln credits promissory notes of A. and J. Haines of Pekin with $50 payment, and deposits money in his bank account. IHi—Lincoln Estate Inventory; Marine Bank Ledger.

He writes to "Mrs. Snedeker" acknowledging letter and box of peaches from "Daughters of Abraham." Original owned by Mrs. Eugene McCoil, Mt. Pleasant, Iowa.

Gen. Anderson, appointed to command in Kentucky on completion of convalescence, dines with President. Gen. McClellan spends most of evening at White House. Anderson to wife, 13 August 1861, Robert Anderson Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC; N.Y. Tribune, 14 August 1861.

Lincoln writes Sec. Cameron: "Let now Brigadier Genl. David Hunter be a Major General of Volunteers . . . let George H. Stoneman, and William F. Smith, both now in the service, each be a Brigadier General of Volunteers. Also Henry W. Benham, a Brigadier General of Volunteers." Abraham Lincoln to Simon Cameron, 13 August 1861, CW, 4:483.

Delegation from Delaware, headed by Cong. George P. Fisher (Del.) discusses with President effects of draft in state, and military situation in general. Fisher to Lincoln, 14 August 1862, Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

Gen. Cassius M. Clay "struts around" White House, anxious to go back to Russia. Albert A. Woldman, Lincoln and the Russians (Cleveland: World Publishing Co., 1952), 120.