<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform' type='Revised'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1837-08-03'>Thursday,
  August 3, 1837.</date> 
            <place key='39.9500, -89.7167' teiForm='name'>Athens, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p>Illinois State Representative Lincoln is in Athens, Illinois,
  where the town's citizens fete the County's legislators. A newspaper reports,
  "At one o'clock about one hundred and fifty gentlemen sat down to an excellent
  dinner," after which individuals offer toasts, including two for Lincoln: "He
  has fulfilled the expectations of his friends and disappointed the hopes of his
  enemies." Another calls him "One of nature's nobility." Lincoln responds,
  "Sangamon county will ever be true to her best interests and never more so than
  in reciprocating the good feelings of the citizens of Athens and neighborhood."
  <bibl default='NO'> 
               <title>Sangamo
  Journal</title>, 12 August 1837, 2:5;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln1;node=lincoln1%3A120' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>A Toast Volunteered at a
  Public Dinner at Athens, Illinois</xref>, 3 August 1837,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:88.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1837-08-05'>Saturday, August 5, 1837.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes John Bennett that special act incorporating Petersburg
            passed legislature. He does not know whether provision for relocating road from New
            Salem to Petersburg passed. His handbill detailing history of controversy between
            Anderson heirs and James Adams appears.<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%3A122' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to John
                  Bennett</xref>, 5 August 1837, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:93-94; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln1;node=lincoln1%3A121' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Handbill: The Case of the
                  Heirs of Joseph Anderson vs. James Adams</xref>, 5 August 1837, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:89-93.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1837-08-07'>Monday, August 7, 1837.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Contest for probate justice of peace, which has kept Springfield in turmoil
            for two months, ends with election of James Adams over Dr. Anson G. Henry by 1,025 to
               792.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Sangamo Journal</title>, 12 August 1837.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln votes for Henry, for Matheny for county clerk, and John Constant
            for treasurer. Matheny and Constant are elected.<bibl default='NO'>Election Returns.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1837-08-15'>Tuesday, August 15, 1837.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln, Robert Allen, William Butler, and Archer G. Herndon sign Charles
            R. Matheny's bond for $1,000 as clerk of county commissioners' court.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Record Book D</title>, 354-55.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1837-08-16'>Wednesday, August 16, 1837.</date>
            <place key='39.9788, -89.8420' teiForm='name'>New Salem, IL</place> and <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield,
            IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln returns from visit to Mary Owens at New Salem and writes on
            marriage. He urges her not to feel obliged to accept him, and releases her from
            obligation. "I am willing, and even anxious to bind you faster, if I can be convinced
            that it will, in any considerable degree, add to your happiness."<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%3A123' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Mary S.
                  Owens</xref>, 16 August 1837, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:94-95.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1837-08-19'>Saturday, August 19, 1837.</date>
            <place key='39.9788, -89.8420' teiForm='name'>New Salem, IL</place> and <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield,
            IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Adams replies to Lincoln's handbill of August 5, 1837.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Sangamo Journal</title>, 19 August 1837.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1837-08-22'>Tuesday, August 22, 1837.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes, signs, and files an affidavit certifying that Nancy and
            Peyton Chrisman, two defendants in the chancery case <name type='case' key='L04048'>Miller v. Chrisman et al.</name>, are not residents of Illinois. He
            writes and files a praecipe ordering the court clerk to publish a notice of the pendancy
            of the case in a newspaper for the benefit of the out-of-state defendants. In the same
            praecipe, Lincoln also orders the clerk to summon two other defendants, St. Clair and
            Jacob Chrisman, who live in Peoria County.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline> 
            <date value='1837-08-28'>Monday,
  August 28, 1837.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield,
  IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes answer of Thomas
  Cassaday, defendant in chancery suit brought by Joseph C. Foster. Cassaday
  refuses to deed tract to Foster, contrary to verbal agreement, on ground that
  both Foster and his agent trifled with him when he was in mood to make
  exchange. Six-page answer is sworn before William Butler.
  <bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>