<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1838-09-03'>Monday, September 3, 1838.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln draws up list of seven notes due estate of George Spears, Sr.,
            deceased. Unpaid notes totaling $479 are due from residents of New Salem neighborhood.
            Among those known to Lincoln were T. J. Nance, Jacob Bale, and Levi Summers.<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%3A140' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Inventory of Notes Due Estate
                  of George Spears</xref>, 3 September 1838, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:121.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> [Greene County Circuit Court convenes at Carrollton.]</p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1838-09-06'>Thursday, September 6, 1838.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes order which James Wright signs: "Mr. Robert Allen: Please
            pay Stuart &amp; Lincoln five dollars and charge to [James Wright] Sept. 6th.
               1838."<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%3A141' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Draft Prepared for James
                  Wright</xref>, 6 September 1838, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:122.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline> 
            <date value='1838-09-10'>Monday,
  September 10, 1838.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield,
  IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes and files declaration for
  John Durley, plaintiff, in assumpsit suit of 
  <name type='case' key='L03175'>Durley v. Mitts &amp;
  Ball</name>. He asks $200 damages. He writes and signs declaration for Abner
  Ellis, plaintiff, in <name type='case' key='L03182'>Ellis v.
  Nave</name> (SC).<anchor corresp='n006' id='a006'/> 
            <bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress,
  Washington, DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <note place='unspecified' id='n006' anchored='yes' target='a006'>SC denotes Illinois Supreme Court cases.</note>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1838-09-13'>Thursday, September 13, 1838.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Josephus Hewett writes Gov. Duncan resigning as prosecuting attorney of
            first judicial circuit. At bottom of letter Lincoln, Hewett, Logan, Baker, Stuart,
            Treat, Ninian W. Edwards, and Cyrus Walker sign recommendation of Antrim Campbell for
               office.<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%3A142' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Petition for Appointment of
                  Antrim Campbell as Prosecuting Attorney</xref>, [13 September 1838], <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:122.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1838-09-15'>Saturday, September 15, 1838.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [In <name type='case'>Fellows v. Snyder et al.</name>, Macon
            County case, Lincoln writes praecipe, bond, and declaration.<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1838-09-17'>Monday, September 17, 1838.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Tazewell Circuit Court convenes at Tremont for four-day term. Judge Jesse
            B. Thomas, Jr. appoints Antrim Campbell prosecuting attorney pro tem.]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1838-09-18'>Tuesday, September 18, 1838.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes and files declaration and bill of complaint for George
            Trotter, plaintiff, in <name type='case' key='L04686'>Trotter v.
            Phelps</name>, suit to collect note, in Sangamon 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='1838-09-19'>Wednesday, September 19, 1838.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes and files praecipe in <name type='case' key='L03715'>Judy v. Manary &amp; Cassity</name> in Sangamon Circuit Court.
            Douglas represents defendants.<bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik Collection,
               Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> [In Macon County case of <name type='case'>Fellows v. Snyder
               et al.</name> he writes, signs, and files, evidently by mail, second
               declaration.<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1838-09-20'>Thursday, September 20, 1838.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes, signs, and files declaration for Silas Harlan, plaintiff,
            in Sangamon Circuit Court in <name type='case' key='L03447'>Harlan v.
               Moffett &amp; Moffett</name>, assumpsit. Lincoln writes and signs declaration in
               <name type='case' key='L03715'>Judy v. Manary &amp;
               Cassity</name>.<bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of
               Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln is listed as attorney in <name type='case' key='L01055'>Bell v. Mitchell</name> in Tazewell court but case is probably handled
            by Farnham, Frisby, &amp; D. Stewart, also retained.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1838-09-21'>Friday, September 21, 1838.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Bills of complaint in <name type='case' key='L03715'>Judy v.
               Manary &amp; Cassity</name>, and <name type='case'>Short v.
               Quinton et al.</name>, are filed by Lincoln. He writes declaration and praecipe in
               <name type='case'>Short v. Quinton and Morgan</name>, and praecipe in
               <name type='case' key='L04783'>Peter VanBergen v. Thomas M.
            Neale</name>, signing "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='1838-09-22'>Saturday, September 22, 1838.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes, signs, and files declaration in Sangamon Circuit Court, for
            plaintiff, in <name type='case' key='L04783'>VanBergen v. Neale</name>.
            [Neale and James D. Henry borrowed $59.40 at 50 per cent a year interest, at time of
            enlistment in Black Hawk War, April 1832. Henry became general and war hero. His death
            March 5, 1834 left Neale responsible for note.] He writes conditional title bond
            executed between Daniel Ragsdale and Joseph W. Hornsby.<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1838-09-24'>Monday,
  September 24, 1838.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield,
  IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes and files in Sangamon
  Circuit Court declaration and praecipe for Edward D. Baker, plaintiff, in 
  <name type='case' key='L02584'>Baker v. M. O. Reeves &amp;
  Co.</name> He signs names of Logan and Baker as attorneys for plaintiff.
  <bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress,
  Washington, DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> [McLean Circuit Court convenes for
  three-day term.]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1838-09-25'>Tuesday, September 25, 1838.</date>
            <place key='40.4833, -88.9833' teiForm='name'>Bloomington, IL</place>?</dateline>
         <p>
            <name type='case' key='L01682'>Rhodes &amp; Walter v. Dean et al.</name>,
    chancery bill to foreclose mortgage, is heard by court, and complainants' bill is granted
    against Mary Lyon, Frederick S. Dean, administrator, and Abraham Lincoln guardian <ital>ad
    litem</ital> for David C. Lyon and Merit D. Lyon, infant heirs of Merit Lyon, deceased. <bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1838-09-26'>Wednesday, September 26, 1838.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes, signs, and files with clerk of Sangamon Circuit Court
            replication of complainant, Nancy Orendorff, in <name type='case' key='L04168'>Orendorf et al. v. Stringfield et al.</name>
            <bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1838-09-27'>Thursday, September 27, 1838.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes and files declaration and bill of complaint in Sangamon
            Circuit Court in <name type='case'>Albert G. Williams v. John M. and
               George L. Cabiness</name>. Cabiness brothers gave their note to Nathaniel Owens for
            $100 current money of Kentucky. Owens held note for 15 years and assigned it to
            Williams, who is seeking to collect.<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1838-09-28'>Friday, September 28, 1838.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes and signs, for plaintiff, petition asking judgment in <name type='case' key='L03630'>Hurst v. Ragsdale</name>, Sangamon 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='1838-09-29'>Saturday, September 29, 1838.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Two thousand Whigs and Conservatives celebrate Stuart's election to
            Congress with barbecue at Porter's Grove. Speeches are made by Lincoln, Stuart, May,
            Hardin, Servant, Bond, Baker, and Henry. Lincoln's speech is "pithy in his own peculiar
            style and showed off some of the prominent features of Mr. Van Buren's administration."
            Alton Telegraph, October 10, 1838. Lincoln writes and signs declaration in <name type='case' key='L04636'>Thompson v. Osborn</name>.<bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>