Cabinet meets. President reads draft of Annual Message to Congress. Welles, Diary.

Replies to inquiry of Gov. Curtin (Pa.): "I have no knowledge, information, or belief, that three States, or any state, offer to resume allegiance." Abraham Lincoln to Andrew G. Curtin, 25 November 1864, CW, 8:121.

[John Hay, for Lincoln, thanks George B. Smith for present of piece of beef. CW, 8:569.]