Sen. Browning (Ill.) joins Lincoln at White House and they go to War Dept., 17th St. and Pennsylvania Ave. NW. Browning, Diary.

President and Sec. Seward decide to appoint John L. Motley, historian, minister to Vienna. N.Y. Tribune, 10 August 1861.

John G. Nicolay, private secretary to President, leaves Washington at 3 A.M. for 10-day vacation at Newport, R.I. Nicolay to Bates, 11 August 1861, John G. Nicolay Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC; National Republican (Washington, DC), 12 August 1861, 3:2..