Cabinet meets. Welles, Diary.

Dr. Robert K. Stone, Lincoln family physician, to call at 9 A.M. tomorrow to talk about way to oblige his wife's family in Richmond. Abraham Lincoln to Robert K. Stone, 9 December 1864, CW, 8:161.

Lincoln attends theater accompanied by Senator Charles Sumner (Mass.) and a foreign minister. Because he went without a guard, Marshal Ward H. Lamon offers his resignation. George S. Bryan, The Great American Myth (New York: Carrick & Evans, 1940), 69; Ward H. Lamon to Abraham Lincoln, 10 December 1864, Lamon Papers, Huntington Library, San Marino, California.