O. M. Hatch introduces another New York "Herald" correspondent to Lincoln. Reporter finds him in governor's office, "seated, engaged in conversation with strangers from different parts of the country. . . . He entered at once into conversation upon the general topics of the day." N.Y. Herald, 20 October 1860.

Lincoln thanks "Prof." Daniel P. Gardner for gift of soap. "Mrs. L. declares it is a superb article. She at the same time, protests that I have never given sufficient attention to the 'soap question' to be a competent judge." Abraham Lincoln to Daniel P. Gardner, 28 September 1860, CW, 4:122-23.