Lincoln writes letters in reply to congratulations. He is optimistic: "So far as I can learn, the nominations start well everywhere; and, if they get no back-set, it would seem as if they are going through." He writes briefly to Salmon P. Chase, Cassius M. Clay, Schuyler Colfax, Caleb B. Smith, Trumbull, and Washburne. He tells S. Wells Cone of Kansas that he expects "to be at home constantly for some weeks." More to the point, he writes Leonard Swett approving his activities in smoothing factional differences. He tells David Davis about Weed's visit, and drafts letter for Davis to write, sign, and send to Pennsylvania Republicans Davis dealt with at Chicago, as Lincoln's platform for campaign. Abraham Lincoln to Salmon P. Chase, 26 May 1860, CW, 4:53; Abraham Lincoln to Cassius M. Clay, 26 May 1860, CW, 4:53-54; Abraham Lincoln to Schuyler Colfax, 26 May 1860, CW, 4:54; Abraham Lincoln to Caleb B. Smith, 26 May 1860, CW, 4:55; Abraham Lincoln to Lyman Trumbull, 26 May 1860, CW, 4:55-56; Abraham Lincoln to Elihu B. Washburne, 26 May 1860, CW, 4:56; Abraham Lincoln to S. Wells Cone, 26 May 1860, CW, 4:54; Abraham Lincoln to Leonard Swett, 26 May 1860, CW, 4:55; Photocopy.