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         <dateline>
            <date value='1838-04-01'>Sunday, April 1, 1838.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes to Mrs. O. H. Browning of Quincy, relating details of his
            courtship of Mary Owens. He describes his determination to propose and have matters
            settled&#8212;her refusal three times, which mortified him in "a hundred different
            ways. . . . But let it all go. I'll try and out live it."<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%3A134' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Mrs.
                  Orville H. Browning</xref>, 1 April 1838, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:117-19.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1838-04-02'>Monday, April 2, 1838.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln files a bond for costs signed by Joseph Smith and J. P. Anderson in
               <name type='case' key='L02874'>Cannon v. Kenney</name> in the Sangamon
            County Circuit Court. Stuart &amp; Lincoln represent the plaintif in the case which
            involves the possession of a sorrel horse worth $65.<bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline> 
            <date value='1838-04-03'>Tuesday,
  April 3, 1838.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes and evidently mails to Tremont James Bell's bond
  for costs in <name type='case' key='L01105'>Kennedy &amp; Julian
  v. Hawley</name>, a case in the Tazewell County Circuit Court.
  <bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1838-04-04'>Wednesday, April 4, 1838.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [The Tazewell County Circuit Court Clerk files the bond in Lincoln's hand,
            in <name type='case' key='L01105'>Kennedy &amp; Julian v.
               Hawley</name>.<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Stuart and Douglas attend the spring court sessions of the first judicial
            circuit. They debate this week during meeting of the Greene County Circuit Court at
            Carrollton. R. W. English, Usher F. Linder, Edward D. Baker, and Stephen T. Logan are
            among the other attorneys attending court.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Sangamo Journal</title>, 21 April 1838.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1838-04-06'>Friday, April 6, 1838.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Calhoun Circuit Court convenes at Gilead.]</p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1838-04-09'>Monday, April 9, 1838.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [The Macoupin County Circuit Court begins a five-day term at Carlinville.
            In the absence of the prosecuting attorney, Judge Jesse B. Thomas, Jr. appoints Usher F.
            Linder prosecuting attorney pro tem.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1838-04-13'>Friday, April 13, 1838.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes and signs a notice to take depositions for <name type='case' key='L04912'>McNair v. Adams</name>, a case before the
            Sangamon County Circuit Court. The notice includes questions to be put to witnesses in
            the state of New York.<bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik Collection, Library
               of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1838-04-16'>Monday, April 16, 1838.</date>
            <place key='40.5167, -89.4833' teiForm='name'>Tremont, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> The Tazewell County Circuit Court convenes at Tremont. The <title>Sangamo Journal</title> of April 28, 1838, comments: "Our business
            last week called us to Tremont during the sitting of the circuit court, Judge Thomas
            presiding. There were about 220 cases on the docket&#8212;all of which were disposed
            of in 4&#189; days."<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Sangamo Journal</title>, 28 April 1838.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1838-04-17'>Tuesday, April 17, 1838.</date>
            <place key='40.5167, -89.4833' teiForm='name'>Tremont, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln, the plaintiff's attorney in <name type='case' key='L01234'>Kellogg v. Crain</name>, requests a change of venue to the Peoria
            County Circuit Court because the judge has participated as an attorney in the case.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1838-04-18'>Wednesday, April 18, 1838.</date>
            <place key='40.5167, -89.4833' teiForm='name'>Tremont, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> The court grants Lincoln's change of venue request in <name type='case' key='L01234'>Kellogg v. Crain</name>.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1838-04-20'>Friday, April 20, 1838.</date>
            <place key='40.5167, -89.4833' teiForm='name'>Tremont, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes a contingent fee agreement and promissory note for their
            client James M. Crain in <name type='case' key='L01217'>Crain v. Crain et
               al.</name>, a conveyance case before the Tazewell County Circuit Court. Crain signs
            both the agreement and the note. The fee agreement pays Stuart &amp; Lincoln a $500
            fee, if they obtain Crain's full claim in the case, or $300 if they obtain a partial
            claim. The promissory note was for $25, payable by Crain to Stuart &amp; Lincoln in
            six months.<bibl default='NO'>Privately owned.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln also writes and files with the court Crain's replication in the
               case.<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1838-04-21'>Saturday, April 21, 1838.</date>
            <place key='40.5167, -89.4833' teiForm='name'>Tremont, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes and files the administrator's report for Benjamin Kellogg
            Jr., the administrator of Lewis F. Crain, deceased, in <name type='case' key='L04424'>Ex parte Kellogg</name>, a case to sell real estate. The judge issued
            a final decree during the fall 1837 term of the Tazewell County Circuit Court.<bibl default='NO'>Record; Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>