Lincoln writes to Secretary Preston, Navy, recommending Dr. John T. Parker, Mary Lincoln's uncle, for Kentucky "Hemp Agency." Abraham Lincoln to William B. Preston, 5 November 1849, CW, 2:66.

The Lincolns prepare to return home. Judge George Robertson is left in charge of Wickliffe case and it is agreed that Mrs. R. S. Todd, administratrix, shall bring suit to settle estate. William H. Townsend, Lincoln and His Wife's Home Town (Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill, 1929), 222.

[Special session of Illinois legislature adjourns.] About this date the Lincolns must have left for home. Orville H. Browning, in his Diary, describes eight-day trip from Lexington to Quincy, Illinois, in summer of 1850. The Lincolns doubtless spend about same time to get from Lexington to Springfield.

Lincoln writes to editor of Chicago "Journal": "I was absent, from before the commencement, till after the close of the late session of the legislature, and . . . the fact of such a speech having been delivered never came to my knowledge, till I saw a notice of your article, in the Illinois Journal. . . . Had the intention of any whig to deliver such a speech been known to me, I should . . . have endeavored to prevent it." Abraham Lincoln to the Editor of the Chicago Journal, 21 November 1849, CW, 2:68.

Lincoln purchases $1.50 worth of groceries. Bunn Journal.

Lincoln writes reply to answer in Eckel v. Warnick, and mails to J. S. Post, Decatur, with whom he is associated in case. Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

Lincoln buys wall lamp for $3.50. Bunn Journal.