<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1837-06-02'>Friday, June 2, 1837.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln mails letter to third auditor.<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1837-06-03'>Saturday,
  June 3, 1837.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln records in firm's free book, "Deposition to be taken on
  3rd June" in <name type='case' key='L04793'>Dingman v.
  Dearing</name>. Stuart &amp; Lincoln represent the appellant, Jemima Dingman,
  administrator of Abraham Dingman's estate, Walker &amp; Hewett and Baker &amp;
  Logan represent the appellee.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Fee Book</title>.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1837-06-05'>Monday, June 5, 1837.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Gov. Duncan issues proclamation calling legislature into special session
            July 10 to consider suspension of specie payments by state bank at Springfield. <title>Sangamo Journal</title>, June 10, 1837. Supreme Court meets from June
            5, 1837, June 6, 1837, June 7, 1837 and adjourns to July 13, 1837.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1837-06-06'>Tuesday, June 6, 1837.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln certifies that map of John Bennett's addition to Petersburg is
            correct as surveyed by him in spring of 1836.<bibl default='NO'>Record L,
               198.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1837-06-09'>Friday, June 9, 1837.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> In <name type='case' key='L03178'>A. Y. Ellis &amp; Co.
               v. Smith</name>, an attachment case in the Sangamon County Circuit Court, Lincoln
            writes and files a praecipe and the affidavit of Joshua Speed, one of the plaintiffs.
            Lincoln also files a praecipe and the affidavit of William Herndon in <name type='case' key='L03544'>Herndon v. Smith</name>, an attachment case in the
            Sangamon County Circuit Court.<bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik Collection,
               Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1837-06-14'>Wednesday, June 14, 1837.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln closes accounts as New Salem postmaster. William Carpenter,
            Springfield postmaster, records: "For cash rec'd of A. Lincoln late P. M. New Salem
               $248.63."<bibl default='NO'>Thomas, <title corresp='Thomas2'>Lincoln's New Salem</title>, 68.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln writes his first "Sampson's Ghost" letter.<anchor corresp='n005' id='a005'/> He asks James Adams, who has attacked state house
            commissioners, to remember his own house stand on "disputed ground."<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Sangamo Journal</title>, 17 June 1837.</bibl>
         </p>
         <note place='unspecified' id='n005' anchored='yes' target='a005'>
            <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:434 lists "Sampson's Ghost"
            and similar letters as suspect.</note>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1837-06-15'>Thursday, June 15, 1837.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln files with circuit clerk of Sangamon County a notice written by
            Stuart. Lincoln writes a bill of complaint for Elijah Houghton in <name type='case' key='L03591'>Houghton v. Hart et al.</name>, a specific performance
               case.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Record Book A</title>; Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of
               Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1837-06-17'>Saturday, June 17, 1837.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes, swears, and files the affidavit of Abner Y. Ellis, the
            plaintiff in <name type='case' key='L03177'>Ellis v. Smith</name>, an
            attachment case in the Sangamon County Circuit Court.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Record Book A</title>; Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of
               Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1837-06-19'>Monday, June 19, 1837.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Daniel Webster is escorted into town from Berlin, 15 miles west of
            Springfield, by Capt. E. H. Merryman's Artillery. Webster attends barbecue given at
            Porter's Grove on west side of town and delivers stirring address to large crowd.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Sangamo Journal</title>, 24 June 1837.</bibl> Morgan Circuit
            Court opens two-week session at Jacksonville.]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1837-06-21'>Wednesday, June 21, 1837.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln's second "Sampson's Ghost" letter is written from "Fork Prairie."
            He defends Dr. A. G. Henry and asks Adams how he procured his home lots. "Sampson" says
            he always wrote his own name and any instrument not written with his own hand, which
            affects his interest, is forgery.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Sangamo Journal</title>, 24 June 1837.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1837-06-22'>Thursday,
  June 22, 1837.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Stuart &amp; Lincoln and Logan &amp; Baker file suit on behalf
  of Joel Wright, administrator of Joseph Anderson's estate, widow Mary Anderson
  and her son, Richard, against James Adams. In 
  <name type='case' key='L03870'>Wright et al. v. Adams</name> the
  complainants seek to recover possession of ten acres located north of
  Springfield. They allege that Adams procured title to the land by fraud.
  <bibl default='NO'>Beveridge,
  <title corresp='Beveridge'>Abraham Lincoln</title>,
  1:214.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln files a declaration in 
  <name type='case' key='L04740'>H. B. Truett &amp; Co. v.
  Ransdell</name>, an assumpsit case. In 
  <name type='case' key='L04048'>Miller v. Chrisman et al.</name>,
  Lincoln writes a chancery bill for conveyance of land, and he signs the
  document "Stuart &amp; Lincoln."<bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik
  Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1837-06-24'>Saturday, June 24, 1837.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Meeting is held in court room to investigate accusations against
            commissioners in charge of erecting new state house. John T. Stuart is chairman and
            Robert Allen, Democrat, secretary. Lincoln introduces resolution to appoint bipartisan
            committee of investigation. [Committee gives commissioners clean bill of health.]<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Sangamo Journal</title>, 1 July 1837.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1837-06-26'>Monday, June 26, 1837.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> ["Illinois Republican" (Springfield) of July 5, 1837 says that "Sampson's
            Ghost did not appear in the `Journal' last week but was seen passing from Springfield to
            Vandalia and from Vandalia to Springfield during last week." "Republican" believed Dr.
            Henry author of "Ghost" letters. Lincoln's authorship is revealed August 7, 1837.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Sangamo Journal</title>, 8 July 1837, 12 August
         1837.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>