February 16, 1848

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            <date value='1848-02-16'>Wednesday, February 16, 1848.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.</dateline>
         <p> "Your letter, asking me to procure passports, has been received," writes
            Lincoln to H. O. Merriman of Peoria or A. L. Merriman of Pekin: "I have just been to Mr.
            Buchanan [secretary of state], who turned me over to an understrapper. . . . He gave me
            a printed circular showing exactly what is to be done, which I transmit to you."<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln1;node=lincoln1%3A459' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Halsey O.
                  or Amos L. Merriman</xref>, 16 February 1848, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:452.</bibl>
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         <p> He attends House where loan bill is under consideration.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Journal</title>.</bibl>
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         <p> Managers of "Birth Night Ball" meet at City Hall.<bibl default='NO'>National Intelligencer, 16 February 1848.</bibl>
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