Lincoln writes to Thomas Corwin and John J. Crittenden, attorney general, recommending John Addison for clerkship. Abraham Lincoln to John J. Crittenden and Thomas Corwin, 2 September 1850, CW, 2:93.

He writes answer of Mary Lyons in Jared P. Irwin v. Mary Lyons and Lewis Graves, Sangamon Circuit Court case. Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

["Circuit Court,—Sickness in the family of Judge Davis, at Bloomington," says Illinois Journal, "has been the cause of the adjournment of the Circuit Court of Sangamon county, until November next."]