Cabinet considers report of secretary of treasury. N.Y. Times, 6 December 1861.

Lincoln interviews David L. Phillips, marshal of southern Illinois, regarding arrests of secessionists. Abraham Lincoln to Simon Cameron, 6 December 1861, CW, 5:59.

Receives Capt. Kennedy's Artillery Company from Auburn, N.Y., accompanied by Sec. Seward. N.Y. Times, 7 December 1861.

Interviews Capt. Francis G. Young of late Col. Baker's California regiment and gives him letter to Gen. McClellan. Young to Lincoln, 7 December 1861, Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC; Abraham Lincoln to George B. McClellan, 6 December 1861, CW, 5:60.

Library of Congress lends copy of "Musäus, Volksmärchen" to White House. [Johann Karl August Musäus, Volksmärchen der Deutschen, Leipzig, 1842.] Borrowers' Ledger 1861-63, 114, Archives of the Library of Congress, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.