President sends message to Robert: "I send your draft to-day. How are you now? Answer by telegraph at once." Abraham Lincoln to Robert Todd Lincoln, 11 January 1864, CW, 7:121.

Confers with former Gov. Dennison (Ohio) and Postmaster Gen. Blair relative to third-party movement in favor of Sec. Chase or Gen. Fremont. William E. Smith, The Francis Preston Blair Family in Politics, 2 vols. (New York: Macmillan, 1933), 2:253.

Receives tickets from First Presbyterian Church for lecture by John B. Gough. O'Mahon to Lincoln, 11 January 1864, Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

[Irwin deposits in Springfield Marine Bank $956.25, principal and interest on Gen. John Cook note. Pratt, Personal Finances, 165.]

Lincoln endorses memorandum of Sen. Wade (Ohio) regarding his son, Henry P. Wade: "Senator Wade must be obliged in this matter before long—a West-Point case." Memorandum: Appointment of Henry P. Wade, 11 January 1864, CW, 7:121.