<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1837-12-06'>Wednesday, December 6, 1837.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Stuart &amp; Lincoln are notified by Samuel H. Treat, attorney for
            complainant in <name type='case' key='L03471'>Foster v. Cassidy</name>,
            that John Calhoun's deposition will be taken December 22, 1837, in Thomas Moffett's
               office.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1837-12-07'>Thursday, December 7, 1837.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes William A. Minshall of Rushville that Stuart will run for
            Congress again. Let "our friends in your parts know. . . . Write me all you <uLine>know</uLine> and all you <uLine>think</uLine>, in regard to
            our prospects. . . . We have adopted it as part of our policy here, to never speak of
            Douglass at all. Is'nt that the best mode of treating so small a matter?"<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln1;node=lincoln1%3A129' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to William A.
                  Minshall</xref>, 7 December 1837, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:107.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1837-12-11'>Monday,
  December 11, 1837.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield,
  IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Illinois Supreme Court convenes at
  Vandalia. Court is in session until December 25, 1837.]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1837-12-14'>Thursday, December 14, 1837.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Sangamon Circuit Court meets in special one-day session to take up case of
            John S. Davis, larceny. Judge Jesse B. Thomas, Jr., presides.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1837-12-20'>Wednesday, December 20, 1837.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes and files a commissioner's report in <name type='case' key='L03591'>Houghton v. Hart et al.</name> Lincoln represented the
            complainant, Elijah Houghton, in this chancery case in which Houghton was seeking to
            obtain a deed.<bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of
               Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1837-12-21'>Thursday, December 21, 1837.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Judge S. H. Treat signs above report.<bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1837-12-22'>Friday, December 22, 1837.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Stuart or Lincoln probably are in Thomas Moffett's office during the
            deposition of John Calhoun in <name type='case' key='L03471'>Foster v.
               Cassidy</name>. The complainant deposed Calhoun and Stuart &amp; Lincoln repesent
            the defendant.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>