"Little of importance at Cabinet meeting." Welles, Diary.

Purchases of cotton and trade regulations topics are discussed in cabinet. Donald, Chase Diaries, 165.

Lincoln recommends watchman at White House: "Thomas Stackpole, bearer of this, I have known rather intimately since my coming to the White-House, and I believe him to be a worthy and competent business man." Abraham Lincoln to John E. Wool, 30 September 1862, CW, 5:447.