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Monday, November 1, 1841.+-

Taylorville, IL.

Lincoln has five cases in Christian County Circuit Court, which meets in one-day session. Four cases are continued and one dismissed by agreement at cost of defendant. Lincoln appears for plaintiff in one case alone, with May in one case, and in others with Logan. Record.

[A debit of $2.93, carried over from the Lincoln & Stuart account, is applied to Lincoln's solo account with a Springfield merchant. The merchant credits Lincoln's account with $62.50 for "Profit & Loss", and Lincoln remits $2.93, settling the Lincoln & Stuart account. Account (copy), 1 November 1841, Irwin & Corneau Account Book, 185, 252, microfilm, IHi, Springfield, IL.

Filed at Petersburg is Lincoln's written affidavit and praecipe in Purkapile v. Hornbuckle, mailed or dispatched "by hand". Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.]