Lincoln inscribes photograph for Mrs. Lucy G. Speed, mother of Joshua F. Speed, "from whose pious hand I accepted the present of an Oxford Bible twenty years ago." Inscription on Photograph Given to Mrs. Lucy G. Speed, 3 October 1861, CW, 4:546.

Sends letter of condolence to Isabel II, Queen of Spain, on death of Infanta Maria de Regla. Abraham Lincoln to Isabel II, 3 October 1861, CW, 4:547.

Orders Uintah Valley in Utah set apart as Indian reservation. Abraham Lincoln to Caleb B. Smith, 3 October 1861, CW, 4:548.

With Mrs. Lincoln and public officials attends flag presentation ceremonies for 7th New Jersey Regiment. N.Y. Herald, 6 October 1861.

Mrs. Lincoln borrows "Oeuvres de Victor Hugo, Vol. 13" from Library of Congress. Borrowers' Ledger 1861-63, 114, Archives of the Library of Congress, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.