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Directions for legal research relating to a case between Robert Allen and the "Post-Office Department." Examine records to determine if Allen was "a contractor for the transportation of the mail on any route or routes, other than route No. 2701." Determine if there is any "receipt, paper, or entry purporting to be signed by Robert Allen, showing that there has ever been a final settlement between said Allen and said Department." Requests copies of documents, contracts, and papers relating to Allen's authority in the Springfield post office and its debts to him since January 1, 1841. Donated by Peggy Harrington, from the collection of Kevin Harrington, 2014.

Legal document relating to the case of Bale v. Wright & Hickox. Abraham Bale accuses Asa D. Wright and Virgil Hickox of owing $1,000 for wheat. "...the said defendants (although often requested so to do) have not as yet paid to the said plaintiff the said sum of money or any part thereof." Includes a copy of the account in question, from February 7, 1850. Requests for the Menard County Circuit Court clerk to issue a summons for Wright and Hickox. Filed February 19, 1850. Donated by Peggy Harrington, from the collection of Kevin Harrington, 2014.

Legal document to postpone malpractice case Fleming v. Crothers and Rogers (the famed "Chicken Bone Case") until Eli K. Rogers is well enough to attend the trial. With revisions in the hand of Abraham Lincoln. Donated by Robert E. Heltzel in honor of Michael L. Hardy, Donald J. Dawson, Jr., and Joseph D. Lonardo, 2018.

"I will be with you on the 27th I suppose I can reach in time, leaving Chicago the same morning."

Asking Dahlgren's thoughts about "Mr. Blunt's new gun," and whether the government should purchase some of them.

"I have received for the Secretary of War [Simon Cameron] the explanations which do justice to the whole matter General Scott has also written to Col. Sherman." Reiterates Lincoln's statement that "the 69th will prove . . . as brave and loyal men." Lincoln expresses pleasure at the loyalty and valor of the New York 69th Regiment. Lincoln and Seward: "We think the safety of the Country and the honor of the service require the 69th to review contents in their camp and defend the fortifications . . . We shall . . . bear full testimony to the gallantry . . . of the 69th."

Recommends Captain Moritz Pinner for the position of Quartermaster on his staff. Pinner is "a former officer in the Prussian Service to that position." Assures the President that he would be the right man for the job. Lincoln obliges Kearny's request that Pinner be appointed Quartermaster for his staff.

Lincoln has heard that "the doings of an Investigating Committee, gives you some uneasiness. You may be entirely relieved on this point." He points out that "As their investigation brings them acquaintances with facts, they are rapidly coming to think of the whole case as all sensible men would."