<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1839-11-02'>Saturday, November 2, 1839.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> John T. Stuart leaves to take seat in Congress. Lincoln signalizes his
            partner's departure for Washington by entering in firm's fee book, "Commencement of
            Lincoln's Administration."<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Stuart &amp; Lincoln fee book</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> He does preliminary paper work in two Sangamon Circuit Court cases, writing
            and signing "Stuart &amp; Lincoln" to declaration in <name type='case' key='L03745'>Calvin Kendall v. Willis G. Moffett</name>, and declaration and
            praecipe in <name type='case' key='L03742'>Henry Kendall v. James F.
               Hardin &amp; John R. Reagor</name>.<bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik
               Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> He writes to William Doughty of Tremont, where he left his coat. He asks
            Doughty, keeper of Franklin Tavern, to buy length of coarse domestic (for which Lincoln
            will pay), wrap it around coat, tie in bundle with enclosed addressed card showing, "and
            hand the bundle to the Stage driver on his trip towards Springfield."<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%3A183' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to William
                  Doughty</xref>, 2 November 1839, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:154.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1839-11-04'>Monday,
  November 4, 1839.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield,
  IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes and files bill of
  complaint of Neff, Wanton &amp; Co., St. Louis merchants, against Josiah
  Francis, Athens storekeeper. They seek to collect note for $353.61.
  <bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> He
  also writes and files in Sangamon Circuit Court declaration in 
  <name type='case' key='L03618'>Iles v. White</name>, suit to
  collect note, declaration in <name type='case' key='L02955'>Jacob Carman &amp; Townsend Carman v. Glasscock et al.</name>,
  declaration in <name type='case' key='L04163'>Samuel O'Neal v.
  Josephus Gatten</name>, declaration in 
  <name type='case' key='L04772'>Foley Vaughn v. Wharton
  Ransdell</name>, and another declaration in 
  <name type='case' key='L04684'>George Trotter v. Robert C.
  Arnold &amp; Moses Fairchild</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='1839-11-05'>Tuesday, November 5, 1839.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln records his employment in fee book in <name type='case' key='L03479'>Hay v. Lasswell</name>, and <name type='case' key='L04914'>Hay v. Lasswell &amp; Mock</name>. Nathaniel Hay seeks damages for
            nondelivery of cord wood, and to recover stud horse and bridle, for which Lincoln writes
            and signs four legal instruments: declaration; praecipe; reply to answer; joinder in
               plea.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Stuart &amp; Lincoln fee book</title>; Herndon-Weik
               Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1839-11-06'>Wednesday, November 6, 1839.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln notes in firm fee book his employment in four cases, in preparing
            which he writes and signs six legal papers: three declarations; two praecipes; one bond
            for costs. [Two cases of <name type='case' key='L03969'>Wm. L. May v.
               Isaac P. Spear</name> are dismissed November 23, 1839 at plaintiff's cost. <name type='case' key='L03318'>Glasgow, Shaw &amp; Tatum v.
            Herndon</name>, in which he represents defendant, is settled out of court. He collects
            note for $316.67 for Joseph H. Dollis.]<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Stuart &amp; Lincoln fee book</title>; Herndon-Weik
               Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1839-11-07'>Thursday, November 7, 1839.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Logan Circuit Court convenes at Postville.]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1839-11-08'>Friday, November 8, 1839.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes article published in "Sangamo Journal" on history of state
            bank at Springfield. He replies to several critical articles in "Illinois State
            Register," saying bank is not solely Whig institution, but was advocated by many
            Democrats, including Gen. Ewing, Senator Will, Judge Theophilus Smith, Col. J. A.
            McClernand, and Col. J. Fry. He writes notice (published December 5, 1839) for
            complainant, David Bruner, in case of petition for partition of real estate in <name type='case' key='L01215'>Bruner v. Bruner et al.</name>, that
            affidavits of nonresidents in case must be filed before trial at May term of Tazewell
            Circuit Court.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Sangamo Journal</title>, 8 November 1839, 5 December
            1839.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1839-11-09'>Saturday, November 9, 1839.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln files declaration in U.S. Circuit Court in <name type='case' key='L02301'>Hooper, Martin, &amp; Smith v. Haines &amp;
            Son</name>, alleging failure of defendant to pay promissory note for $567.28, and debt
            of $12.63.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln takes for collection three notes of D. B. Hill to Kerr &amp;
            Co. totaling $2,045.78.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Stuart &amp; Lincoln fee book</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1839-11-11'>Monday, November 11, 1839.</date>
            <place key='40.0000, -89.8333' teiForm='name'>Petersburg, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln, representing plaintiffs, moves continuance of <name type='case' key='L00386'>Sears et al. v. Siemers et al.</name>, petition to make
            title to tract of land. Case is continued to June term of Menard Circuit Court.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1839-11-12'>Tuesday, November 12, 1839.</date>
            <place key='40.0000, -89.8333' teiForm='name'>Petersburg, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes praecipe in <name type='case' key='L00812'>Clark et al. v. Holland</name>, for plaintiffs, Henry Clark, James Baxter, and
            William Baxter, trespass and damages ($500).<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1839-11-14'>Thursday,
  November 14, 1839.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield,
  IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes Stuart that Douglas has
  given up contest to get Stuart's seat in Congress. He believes Noah W. Matheny
  will be elected to succeed C. R. Matheny, his father, as county clerk. Lincoln
  fears outcome of approaching legislative contest between T. J. Nance (Dem.) and
  John Bennett (Whig).<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%3A184' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to John T.
  Stuart</xref>, 14 November 1839, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:154.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1839-11-16'>Saturday, November 16, 1839.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Election is held to fill unexpired term of Charles R. Matheny, county
            clerk. Lincoln votes for Noah W. Matheny, who is elected over Edmund Taylor, 966 to
               653.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Journal</title>, 23 November 1839.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln writes answer of Jesse Ditson filed in <name type='case' key='L02599'>State Bank of Illinois v. Quinton et al.</name>
            <bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> "Register" fires two shots at Lincoln and Whig associates. Commenting on
            Lincoln's bank article of November 8, 1839, opposition paper says: "The longest of the
               <uLine>long-nine</uLine>" says state bank is "<uLine>our</uLine> dog and we may whip it." Also complained of is "dictation" of "Springfield
            Junto" in selecting candidate for special election to fill House vacancy. "Would Mr.
            Lincoln be likely to urge a candidate upon the people, unless he were well assured that
            he would, if elected, go the whole hog with the Springfield Junto members?"<bibl default='NO'>Register, 16 November 1839.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1839-11-18'>Monday, November 18, 1839.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Sangamon Circuit Court opens three-week session. Judge Treat
         presides.]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1839-11-19'>Tuesday, November 19, 1839.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Week of political debate begins. Cyrus Walker leads off for Whigs and
            Douglas replies. Lincoln closes debate.<bibl default='NO'>Register, 23
               November 1839.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> terms it plot of "two pluck one," and accuses Lincoln of an assumed
            clownishness he is advised to correct. He files replication in <name type='case' key='L02565'>Atwood &amp; Jones v. Douglas &amp;
               Wright</name>.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1839-11-20'>Wednesday, November 20, 1839.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Debate continues with Douglas discussing national bank. Lincoln replies,
            beginning, says Register (November 23, 1839), with embarrassment and continuing without
            making the slightest impression. "Mr. L. of Wednesday night was not the L. of Tuesday."
            Lincoln writes and signs joinder in demurrer in <name type='case' key='L04772'>Foley Vaughn v. Wharton Ransdell</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='1839-11-21'>Thursday, November 21, 1839.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln wins two cases of <name type='case' key='L03332'>Gest &amp; Mills v. Henkle</name> by default; files joinder to defendant's
            demurrer in <name type='case' key='L04772'>Vaughn v. Ransdell</name>,
            dismisses <name type='case' key='L03323'>Goodacre v. Smith</name> at
            plaintiff's cost, withdraws replication filed Tuesday in <name type='case' key='L02565'>Atwood &amp; Jones v. Douglas &amp; Wright</name>. <name type='case' key='L04143'>Newsom v. Newton</name> is submitted to three
               arbitrators.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1839-11-22'>Friday, November 22, 1839.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln's demurrer, filed yesterday in <name type='case' key='L04772'>Vaughn v. Ransdell</name>, is sustained in part, and leave given to
            amend declaration, and case is continued. He files demurrer in <name type='case' key='L02565'>Atwood &amp; Jones v. Douglas &amp;
               Wright</name>.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> He writes and signs declaration for plaintiff, John Foutch, in <name type='case' key='L03264'>Foutch v. Thomas 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='1839-11-23'>Saturday,
  November 23, 1839.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield,
  IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln has 11 cases called, in five of
  which he gets judgment. He writes and signs, for William D. Herndon, defendant,
  pleas in <name type='case' key='L03318'>Glasgow, Shaw, &amp;
  Tatum v. Herndon</name>. He writes court order in 
  <name type='case' key='L04615'>West v. Stevens &amp;
  Stevens</name>. John Calhoun for Democrats, and E. D. Baker for Whigs, continue
  debate. A. P. Field declares he has always opposed internal improvement system.
  Lincoln's failure to comment on this statement annoys "Register."
  <bibl default='NO'>Record; Photocopy; Register, 30 November
  1839.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Nor does Register (November 23, 1839) care
  for Lincoln's public remarks on its criticism of Junto dictation. "He [Lincoln]
  asserted that <uLine>he did not advise etc. the running of John
  Bennett</uLine> for the Legislature, but was in favour of Bowling Green; and
  that the editors of the Register had <uLine>lied</uLine> in making
  such a statement. Mr. Lincoln said further that we had<uLine>no
  authority</uLine> for making the statement; and that having no authority, even
  if we had published the truth, we were still<uLine>liars</uLine>.
  Such was the language of the man selected by the Whig Party to be an elector of
  the high office of President of the United States."</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1839-11-25'>Monday, November 25, 1839.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Special election to fill vacancy caused by John Calhoun's resignation from
            legislature is held. Vote is close in district which includes Sangamon, Logan, Menard,
            and Dane counties. Thomas J. Nance wins by 36 votes.<bibl default='NO'>Theodore C. Pease, ed., <title>Illinois Election Returns,
               1818-1848</title>, vol. 18 of <title>Collections of the Illinois
                  State Historical Library</title> (Springfield: Illinois State Historical Library,
               1923), 328; Register, 30 November 1839; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln1;node=lincoln1%3A184' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to John T.
                  Stuart</xref>, 14 November 1839, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:154.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1839-11-26'>Tuesday, November 26, 1839.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln gets judgment for $440.14 in <name type='case' key='L03749'>John &amp; Augustus Kerr &amp; Co. v. Constant &amp;
               Francis</name>. Court awards him $7 for survey and report in <name type='case' key='L02888'>Butler v. Tilford et al.</name> [T. M. Neale made
               survey.]<bibl default='NO'>Record; <title>Deed Book
               F</title>, 80; Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1839-11-27'>Wednesday, November 27, 1839.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p>
            <name type='case' key='L02955'>Carman &amp; Carman v. Glasscock et
               al.</name>, trespass case involving loss of boatload of corn on fish-trap dam on
            Sangamon River, is continued on Lincoln's motion. He argues assumpsit suit of <name type='case' key='L03479'>Hay v. Lasswell</name> before jury. Lasswell
            has failed to deliver 100 cords of wood to Hay's brickyard. Unable to agree, jury is
            discharged. He writes all papers of these two cases&#8212;affidavit, declaration,
            memorandum, and, for good measure, writes administrator's report in <name type='case' key='L03020'>Patterson et al. v. Casey 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='1839-11-28'>Thursday, November 28, 1839.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln gets judgment in two cases, <name type='case' key='L03745'>Kendall v. Moffett</name> for $157.90, and <name type='case' key='L02565'>Atwood &amp; Jones v. Douglas &amp; Wright</name>
            for $568.22. <name type='case' key='L04623'>Stockton v. Tolly</name>,
            suit for damages to cook stove, is dismissed at plaintiff's cost. Lincoln appears for
            defendant. He files answer as guardian in <name type='case' key='L03121'>Levica Davenport, adm. of Marshall Davenport v. William Davenport et al.</name>
            <bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> In <name type='case' key='L03458'>Rhoda Hart v. John Sackett
               et al.</name>, he writes answer of Antrim Campbell, guardian, and decree of court
            approving sale of land.<bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik Collection,
               Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1839-11-29'>Friday, November 29, 1839.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Article in Sangamo Journal on Douglas' pretensions to Stuart's seat in
            Congress is probably from Lincoln's pen. He files report for complainant, John W.
            Patterson, in <name type='case' key='L03020'>Patterson et al. v. Casey et
               al.</name>, and case is continued, along with <name type='case' key='L04685'>Trotter v. Arnold &amp; Fairchild</name>.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln writes answer of J. A. Brown filed in <name type='case' key='L02599'>State Bank of Illinois v. Quinton et al.</name>
            <bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Chicago American of November 29, 1839 notices Lincoln's labors on
         stump.</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1839-11-30'>Saturday,
  November 30, 1839.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield,
  IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln has two cases called. He moves
  to dismiss <name type='case' key='L03896'>Lockwood v.
  Wernwag</name> and agrees to three months stay of execution in 
  <name type='case' key='L03745'>Kendall v. Moffett</name>. He
  writes bill of exceptions for Nathaniel Hay, plaintiff, in 
  <name type='case' key='L04914'>Hay v. Lasswell &amp;
  Mock</name>. He earns $5 for services as commissioner in 
  <name type='case' key='L03616'>Huston v. Bogue</name>, on making
  report. [On March 25, 1840, Lincoln took 
  <name type='case' key='L03745'>Kendall v. Moffett</name>
  execution to Schuyler County, but nothing was realized for want of bidders.
  <bibl default='NO'>Docket D.</bibl>]
  <bibl default='NO'>Record; Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of
  Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>