Lincoln acknowledges letter from E. B. Washburne, whose brother is running for governor of Maine. "Yours of the 5th. was received last evening. I was right glad to see it. It contains the freshest 'posting' which I now have. It relieved me some from a little anxiety I had about Maine." Abraham Lincoln to Elihu B. Washburne, 9 September 1860, CW, 4:113-14.