President approves resolution providing for "Congressional Directory." Stat. L., XIII, 568.

Grants audience to Mrs. Hutter and committee from Philadelphia with recommendations relative to caring for orphans of soldiers and sailors. Hutter to Lincoln, 8 February 1865, Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

Interviews W. O. Bartlett, probably about appointment of James Gordon Bennett as minister to France. Bartlett to Lincoln, 14 February 1865, Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

Signs commission of W. O. Stoddard as marshal of eastern district of Arkansas. William O. Stoddard, Lincoln's Third Secretary: The Memoirs of William O. Stoddard, ed. by William O. Stoddard, Jr. (New York: Exposition Press, 1955), 216.