<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1838-02-02'>Friday, February 2, 1838.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes, signs, and files with the Sangamon County Circuit Court
            declarations, praecipes, and bonds for costs for three cases, <name type='case' key='L02630'>Anderson, Bell &amp; Co. v. Patterson &amp;
               Patterson</name>, <name type='case' key='L02623'>Anderson, Bell
               &amp; Co. v. H. Garrett &amp; Co.</name>, and <name type='case' key='L02629'>Anderson, Bell &amp; Co. v. Gambrel</name>. Stuart and Lincoln
            enter themselves as security for costs for their clients, plaintiffs James Anderson Jr.,
            William Bell, and John W. Anderson in all three cases.<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy; Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1838-02-03'>Saturday, February 3, 1838.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes addendum to his "Conservative" letter of January 27, 1838.
            He again complains of nomination of Douglas for Congress "in these trying times . . .
            instead of some man of talent and acquaintance with the people, and possessing other
            suitable qualifications."<bibl default='NO'>IHi&#8212;<title>Journal</title>, XXIX, 136.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1838-02-06'>Tuesday, February 6, 1838.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes, signs, and files with the Sangamon County Circuit Court, a
            bill of complaint in the chancery case <name type='case' key='L03299'>Garrett v. Levering</name>.<bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik
               Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='New' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1838-02-08'>Thursday,
  February 8, 1838.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield,
  IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p>Lincoln writes a bond for costs in the
  case of <name type='case' key='L02874'>Cannan v. Kenney</name>. Stuart &amp;
  Lincoln's client Manley F. Cannan accuses defendant Mathew P. Kenney of using
  Cannan's horse without permission. <bibl default='NO'>Bond, 8 February 1838, <ital>Cannan v.
  Kenney</ital>, Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress, Washington,
  DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1838-02-09'>Friday, February 9, 1838.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln records in firm's fee book receipt of a note for $1,695.98 and
            mortgage given by Alexander Garrett to Edward Crow &amp; Co. [In a subsequent case,
               <name type='case' key='L03111'>Edward Crow &amp; Co. v.
            Garrett</name>, in the Sangamon County Circuit Court, on October 20, 1838, the court
            forecloses Garrett's mortgage and awards Edward Crow &amp; Co. a $1,952.49 judgment.
            On March 15, 1839, the land is sold to pay the judgment.]<bibl default='NO'>Record; <title>Stuart &amp; Lincoln fee
               book</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1838-02-10'>Saturday, February 10, 1838.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> ["Journal" contains column of letters (one signed W. L. May), expressing
            same strictures on Douglas' nomination for Congress found in Lincoln's two letters
            signed "A Conservative," which appeared January 27, 1838 and February 3, 1838. Lincoln
            is probably author of all except that signed by May.<bibl default='NO'>IHi&#8212;<title>Journal</title>, XXIX, 136.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1838-02-12'>Monday, February 12, 1838.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln votes for Francis Taylor for justice of peace. Marvellous Eastham,
            Democrat, is elected 236 to 198. Lincoln votes for Edward Stapelford who is elected
               constable.<bibl default='NO'>Election Returns.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1838-02-13'>Tuesday, February 13, 1838.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes and files with the Sangamon County Circuit Court a bill of
            complaint in the chancery case <name type='case' key='L04899'>Wilson v.
               Simpson et al.</name>
            <bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress,
               Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1838-02-16'>Friday,
  February 16, 1838.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield,
  IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes and files with the
  Sangamon County Circuit Court a bill of complaint in 
  <name type='case' key='L04362'>Payne v. Bryan</name>, a chancery
  suit to foreclose a chattel mortgage. Lincoln enters himself as security for
  court costs for his client, Thomas J. Payne.<bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC;
  Record.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1838-02-19'>Monday, February 19, 1838.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes and files with the Sangamon County Circuit Court a
            declaration in <name type='case' key='L04461'>Roll v. Anderson</name>.
            Stephen T. Logan represents the defendant John Anderson. Lincoln's client, John E. Roll,
            is seeking to recover damages for a black mare that escaped while on loan to
               Anderson.<bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of
               Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1838-02-20'>Tuesday, February 20, 1838.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln fills out a partially printed summons form in <name type='case' key='L03789'>Klein v. Webb</name>, which William Butler, the Sangamon
            County circuit court clerk, signs.<bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik
               Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Stuart &amp; Lincoln file a bill of complaint for Charles Hunter, the
            complainant in <name type='case' key='L03233'>Hunter v. Enos et al.</name>
            <bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1838-02-23'>Friday, February 23, 1838.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes and files declarations for several cases before the Sangamon
            County Circuit Court: <name type='case' key='L04625'>J. S. Stone
               &amp; Co. v. Hughes</name>, <name type='case' key='L03093'>Colbern
               v. Wallace</name>, <name type='case' key='L04040'>Mason and Mason v.
               Renshaw and Renshaw</name>, <name type='case' key='L03538'>Herndon v.
               Sudduth et al.</name>, and <name type='case' key='L02895'>Wright v.
               Brooks and Shackelford</name>. In first four cases plaintiff is seeking to collect on
            notes long overdue.<bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of
               Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln writes, for Sheriff Garret Elkin, an endorsement on the back of a
            summons in <name type='case' key='L03233'>Hunter v. Enos et al.</name>
            <bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1838-02-24'>Saturday, February 24, 1838.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> ["We are authorized to announce A. LINCOLN, as a candidate for the State
               Legislature."<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Sangamo Journal</title>, 24 February 1838.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>