Lincoln writes to L. M. Hays: "Inclosed is the draft for one hundred dollars. Absence from home prevented my receiving your letter of the 12th October until yesterday." He writes to T. J. Turner: "Judge Logan, Kemper's attorney, . . . consents to the within named clerk, taking the deposition . . . on condition that, if you can, you will notify Kemper's lawyer there, of the time & place." Abraham Lincoln to Lewis M. Hays, 11 November 1853, CW, 2:206; Abraham Lincoln to Thomas J. Turner, 11 November 1853, CW, 2:206.