February 05, 1862

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            <date value='1862-02-05'>Wednesday, February 5, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
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President recognizes Herman Michels as consul for Kingdom of Saxony 
for California.
<bibl default='NO'>National Intelligencer, 11 February 1862.</bibl>
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[Irwin deposits $680, payment on notes of N. W. Edwards, in 
Springfield Marine Bank.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 165.</bibl>]
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         <p>
President receives January salary warrant for $2,083.33.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 182.</bibl>
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            <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> gives White House ball, feature heretofore untried in 
social customs of First Lady. Issues invitations to 600-700 people. 
"A very respectable if not a brilliant success. The East Room was 
filled with well dressed guests looking very beautiful and the 
[midnight] supper was magnificent."
<bibl default='NO'>Nicolay to Bates, 2 February 1862, 11 February 1862, John G. Nicolay Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
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"Most superb affair of its kind ever seen here."
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 6 February 1862.</bibl>
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