President confers with F. P. Blair, Sr., about peace negotiations with President Davis. Endorsement Concerning Francis P. Blair, Sr., 28 January 1865, CW, 8:243.

Lincoln issues a pass allowing Mrs. L[a]llie Holliday of Kentucky, to visit her husband Major J. B. Holliday. Major Holliday is a prisoner at Johnson's Island, a Union prison located in Lake Erie, and a few miles from Sandusky, Ohio. Kentucky Unionist Congressman George H. Yeaman and others petitioned President Lincoln on Mrs. Holliday's behalf. Nicholas County, Kentucky Citizens to Abraham Lincoln, 23 January 1865, Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC; Pass for Mrs. J. B. Holliday, 28 January 1865, CW, 8:244.

Official engagements prohibit Lincoln from attending Mrs. Lincoln's afternoon reception. Washington Chronicle, 29 January 1865; Daily National Republican (Washington, DC), 28 January 1865, 3d ed., 2:6; Evening Star (Washington, DC), 28 January 1865, 2d ed., 2:4.