What I want now is to send you the money, to be used accordingly, if
any one comes on to start the case, or to be retained by you if no one
does.
There is nothing of consequence new here. Congress is to organize
to-morrow. Last night we held a Whig caucus for the House, and nominated
Winthrop of Massachusetts for speaker, Sargent of Pennsylvania for
sergeant-at-arms, Homer of New Jersey door-keeper, and McCormick of
District of Columbia postmaster. The Whig majority in the House is so
small that, together with some little dissatisfaction, [it] leaves it
doubtful whether we will elect them all.
This paper is too thick to fold, which is the reason I send only a
half-sheet.
Yours as ever, A. LINCOLN.
TO WILLIAM H. HERNDON.
WASHINGTON, December 13, 1847
DEAR WILLIAM:--Your letter, advising me of the receipt of our fee in the
bank case, is just received, and I don't expect to hear another as good a
piece of news from Springfield while I am away. I am under no obligations
to the bank; and I therefore wish you to buy bank certificates, and pay
my debt there, so as to pay it with the least money possible. I would as
soon you should buy them of Mr. Ridgely, or any other person at the bank,
as of any one else, provided you can get them as cheaply.
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