Lays before Senate treaty with bands of Chippewa Indians. Abraham Lincoln to the Senate, [8] January 1864, CW, 7:116-17.

Interviews Sen. Grimes (Iowa) about military recommendations. Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton, 8 January 1864, CW, 7:117.

Cabinet meets, with Secs. Welles and Usher only members present. Welles, Diary.

Sec. Seward presents members of National Academy of Science to President. Washington Chronicle, 9 January 1864.

Mrs. Lincoln announces her Saturday afternoon receptions will begin January 9, 1864. Washington Chronicle, 8 January 1864.

President writes Mrs. Esther Stockton, widow of Rev. Joseph Stockton, of Pittsburgh: "Learning that you who have passed the eighty-fourth year of life, have given to the soldiers, some three hundred pairs of stockings, knitted by yourself, I wish to offer you my thanks." Abraham Lincoln to Mrs. Esther Stockton, 8 [January] 1864, CW, 7:117.