Lincoln and others sign call for meeting to invite Louis Kossuth to stop at Springfield on his way from Indianapolis to St. Louis. Meeting is held and Lincoln appointed to committee of 13 which is instructed to request city council to extend invitation. Illinois Journal, 30 January 1852; Call for Kossuth Meeting, 26 January 1852, CW, 2:118.

Lincoln writes to O. H. Browning about case of Smith v. Gardner, decided against him on two points, which he states. Abraham Lincoln to Orville H. Browning, 26 January 1852, CW, 2:117-18.

Kossuth meeting reconvenes. When chairman calls for committee's report, none of its members is present "although it appeared that everybody else was here." Virgil Hickox suggests that members of committee may have feared expense would devolve on them. On motion of John Calhoun, another committee is appointed to extend invitation. Lincoln is on it. Illinois Journal, 30 January 1852.