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<date value='1862-02-02'>Sunday, February 2, 1862.</date>
<place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
DC</place>. </dateline>
<p> Sen. Sumner (Mass.) introduces Ralph Waldo Emerson,
poet and philosopher, to President, who reviews case of slave trader Capt.
Gordon during interview. <bibl default='NO'>Ralph Waldo Emerson, <title>The Journals of
Ralph Waldo Emerson</title>, 10 vols., edited by Edward Waldo Emerson and Waldo
Emerson Forbes (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1909-1914),
9:375-76.</bibl>
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<p> In conversation with Cong. Conway (Kans.) Lincoln
states that Gen. Lane was appointed with understanding that he serve under Gen.
Hunter. <bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 3 February 1862.</bibl>
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