<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1838-08-03'>Friday,
  August 3, 1838.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield,
  IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Campaign of Stuart and Douglas, for
  Congress, becomes violent. A few days before election they debate in
  Springfield. Douglas uses language offensive to Stuart. Latter grabs Douglas
  and contemptuously carries him. Douglas, retaliating, bites Stuart's right
  thumb.<bibl default='NO'>IHi&#8212;Trans., 1902,
  110.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1838-08-06'>Monday, August 6, 1838.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln is re-elected to legislature, leading field of 17 candidates. He
            votes for Cyrus Edwards for governor, and for William H. Davidson against Joseph
            Anderson for lieutenant-governor. Neither wins, but his vote helps Stuart defeat Douglas
            by 36 votes in total of 36,495.<bibl default='NO'>Election
            Returns.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1838-08-13'>Monday, August 13, 1838.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes praecipe for Albert G. Williams, plaintiff, and files notice
            with clerk of Sangamon Circuit Court to issue summons, and enters himself security for
            costs, in suit of <name type='case' key='L04869'>Williams v. Cabiness
               &amp; Cabiness</name>.<bibl default='NO'>IHi&#8212;Original.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> [Greene Circuit Court is in session.]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1838-08-14'>Tuesday, August 14, 1838.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes and signs bill of divorce and general replication and
            joinder in <name type='case' key='L04460'>Samuel Rogers v. Polly Offill
               Rogers</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='1838-08-16'>Thursday, August 16, 1838.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes and files in Sangamon Circuit Court bill for divorce in
               <name type='case' key='L03467'>Foster v. Foster</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='1838-08-20'>Monday,
  August 20, 1838.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield,
  IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p>Lincoln writes a note acknowledging
  receipt of the $20 fee that William Hickman paid to Stuart &amp; Lincoln for
  representing him in the case of <name type='case' key='L03045'>Hickman v.
  Braucher</name>. Hickman sought to recover a debt that defendant Isaac R.
  Braucher owed to the estate of George Churchill. Lincoln signs the note "Stuart
  &amp; Lincoln." <bibl default='NO'>Receipt (copy), 20 August 1838, <ital>Hickman v.
  Braucher</ital>, copy files, IHi, Springfield, IL. </bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1838-08-22'>Wednesday, August 22, 1838.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Stuart and Lincoln sign marginal release of mortgages given by Henry B.
            Truett for $500 March 21, 1838.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Deed Book M</title>, 413.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1838-08-27'>Monday, August 27, 1838.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Special one-day term of Sangamon Circuit Court is held to take up case of
            Berry Monahan, larceny. Grand jury fails to indict him. Judge Jesse B. Thomas, Jr.
               presides.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1838-08-28'>Tuesday, August 28, 1838.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> ["I, Charles R. Matheny clerk of the County Commissioners Court in and for
            said County do hereby certify that Abraham Lincoln was duly elected Representative to
            the General Assembly of the State of Illinois from the County of Sangamon at the general
            election in August A.D. 1838 as appears from the returns filed in my office. C. R.
            Matheny Clerk C.C.C."<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1838-08-31'>Friday, August 31, 1838.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Calhoun Circuit Court convenes at Gilead.]</p>
      </div2>