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Yours inclosing receipt of ``Burnet House'' is received; and I sincerely thank you for your attention to this business. Let it stand
as it is for the present, with the distinct understanding that you are not to ultimately lose the money.
Give my love to Cousin Annie. Yours very truly
A. LINCOLN
[1] ALS, CSmH. Dickson's letter of June 9, replying to Lincoln's of June 7, supra, enclosed a receipt made out in Lincoln's name, and related the following: ``It seems that Messrs. Corwine & Eggleston [Richard M. Corwine and Benjamin Eggleston, members of the Ohio State Republican Committee] ordered an extra parlor and bed room . . . dined or supped with you and they ordered the liquor and cigars for the musicians, the extra suppers were for some of them. . . . Now the best course is to have it paid at once without a word so I have paid it, . . . . but dont you send me any money whatever. At a proper time and quietly some of my particular friends, republicans will share the matter with me. For the honor of our city dont send me the money. I would not have it said that we have invited you here & then made you pay the expenses not only of yourself but of the committee too. . . . '' (DLC-RTL).