Lincoln is impatient with Martin for not sending him necessary records in Sangamon & Alton cases. "You had distinctly promised me that you would send them up whenever I should want them," he complains. "Now, send them at once, if you shall not have done so already." Abraham Lincoln to William Martin, 29 August 1851, CW, 2:110.

Lincoln & Herndon's only case in court is dismissed at opponent's cost. Record.