Annotation
[1] ADfS, DLC-RTL. See Lincoln to Chase, June 25, supra. Kellogg's note of June 29 is as follows:
``The reply of Mr. Chase to me on reading your note and hearing my proposition was `It can not be done Sir' an iceburg would be as a furnace compared to your Sec of the Treasury.
``Mr. Lincoln---I very much desire that Mr. A[mos] C Babcock be permitted to take to and sell ordinary articles of commerce at Helena, Arkansas---not `contraband of war' and to buy of loyal men cotton & other productions---at that place and Fryers Point Miss. & transport northward. If in your judgment there is nothing wrong in this I do think the administration should grant me this much
``I do not know of any consideration that would induce me again to ask a favour of Mr Chase. If I can not get this of the Commander in Chief---of the armies---I can not get it at all I dislike to trouble you but will ask you to consider the matter. . . .
``If this can not be done, will the govt. permit certain persons loyal men who have raised and own cotton who may be named to ship themselves their cotton to St Louis or other points. This would answer my purpose'' (DLC-RTL).
A later but undated note, also in pencil, is as follows: ``I sent you a note by Mr Nicolay. Will you say whether any thing can be done, if I can not see you please write your answer on a card so that I can get it from your attendant at 4 oclock. . . .'' (Ibid.).