Stuart & Lincoln withdraw $5 cash. Irwin Ledger.

[Livingston Circuit Court convenes at Pontiac.]

Stuart & Lincoln withdraw $5.00 cash from their account with a Springfield merchant. Account (copy), 12 October 1840, Irwin & Corneau, 185, microfilm, IHi, Springfield, IL.

[Eighteenth issue of The Old Soldier is published.Old Soldier (Springfield, IL), Issue 18, 12 October 1840.]

[DeWitt County Circuit Court convenes at Clinton.]

It appears from Lincoln's letter of October 31, 1840 that he is in Lawrenceville on this day.Abraham Lincoln to William G. Anderson, 31 October 1840, CW, 1:211.

Lincoln writes to local resident William G. Anderson, who seeks Lincoln's clarification regarding an apparent disagreement between the two men. Anderson explained, "I think you were the aggressor. Your words imported insult." Lincoln denies that he was the "aggressor." He writes, "I entertain no unkind feeling to you, and none of any sort upon the subject, except a sincere regret that I permitted myself to get into such an altercation." William G. Anderson to Abraham Lincoln, 30 October 1840, Tennessee Historical Society Collection, Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, TN; Abraham Lincoln to William G. Anderson, 31 October 1840, CW, 1:211.