On or about this day Lincoln drafts several pages of campaign argument. Fragment on Sectionalism, [c. 23 July 1856], CW, 2:349-53.

[In Metamora, Lincoln's bill in Saltonstall v. Saltonstall et al. is filed. He is for complainant, John T. Saltonstall. Photocopy.

Lincoln has written National Kansas Committee declining to accept appointment as member because of other engagements. Convening at Buffalo July 9, 1856 and July 10, 1856, Lincoln was chosen, and notified July 16, 1856 by letter from William F. Arny, Chicago. On July 22, 1856 Arny writes Jesse Fell of Normal that Lincoln declines and recommends Fell. W. F. Arny to Lincoln, 16 July 1856, Jesse Fell Papers, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, Springfield, IL; Arny to Fell, 22 July 1856, Jesse Fell Papers, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, Springfield, IL.]