<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1840-10-05'>Monday, October 5, 1840.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Stuart &amp; Lincoln withdraw $5 cash.<bibl default='NO'>Irwin Ledger.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1840-10-12'>Monday, October 12, 1840.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Livingston Circuit Court convenes at Pontiac.]</p>
         <p>Stuart &amp; Lincoln withdraw $5.00 cash from their account with a Springfield merchant.
     <bibl default='NO'>Account (copy), 12 October 1840, Irwin &amp; Corneau, 185, microfilm, IHi,
     Springfield, IL.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1840-10-15'>Thursday, October 15, 1840.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [DeWitt County Circuit Court convenes at Clinton.]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1840-10-16'>Friday, October 16, 1840.</date>
            <place key='40.1500, -88.9500' teiForm='name'>Clinton, IL</place>?</dateline>
         <p> The judge continues <name type='case' key='L00547'>Ex parte Fruit
     and Walker</name>, a petition to sell real estate case in which Lincoln is guardian <ital>ad
     litem</ital> of the infant heirs of John McGee. <bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1840-10-19'>Monday, October 19, 1840.</date>
            <place key='40.1500, -88.9500' teiForm='name'>Clinton, IL</place>?</dateline>
         <p> [Macon Circuit Court opens three-day term at Decatur.]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1840-10-20'>Tuesday, October 20, 1840.</date>
            <place key='40.1500, -88.9500' teiForm='name'>Clinton, IL</place>?</dateline>
         <p> [Lincoln and Isaac P. Walker, Democrat, debate in "mid-autumn" in Albion,
            Illinois. On morning of debate, Lincoln borrows copy of Byron's poems from log school
               house.<bibl default='NO'>Gibson W. Harris, "My Recollections of
               Abraham Lincoln," <title>Farm &amp; Fireside</title>, 1 December
               1904.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1840-10-21'>Wednesday, October 21, 1840.</date>
            <place key='40.1500, -88.9500' teiForm='name'>Clinton, IL</place>?</dateline>
         <p> [Lincoln spends night at home of William Verden in southeast corner of
            Wayne County, some five miles west of Albion. This visit is probably made day after his
            address at Albion. Verden and Lincoln reminisce on their experiences, former in War of
            1812, latter in Black Hawk War.<bibl default='NO'>IHi&#8212;<title>Journal</title>, VIII, 518.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1840-10-23'>Friday, October 23, 1840.</date>
            <place key='40.1500, -88.9500' teiForm='name'>Clinton, IL</place>?</dateline>
         <p> ["The "Register" publishes a letter from one of our southern counties in
            which it is stated that John A. McClernand is using up A. Lincoln in his addresses to
            the people. This is too simple a lie to tell here. Even the Locos are ashamed of it.
            Abraham Lincoln used up by John A. McClernand, Bah!"<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Sangamo Journal</title>, 23 October 1840.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1840-10-26'>Monday, October 26, 1840.</date>
            <place key='40.1500, -88.9500' teiForm='name'>Clinton, IL</place>?</dateline>
         <p> [Christian County Circuit Court convenes for three-day term.]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1840-10-29'>Thursday, October 29, 1840.</date>
            <place key='40.1500, -88.9500' teiForm='name'>Clinton, IL</place>?</dateline>
         <p> [Logan Circuit Court is scheduled to open at Postville. Records, dockets
            and files of this court were destroyed by fire in 1857. Consequently little information
            is available on Lincoln's practice in Logan County prior to this date.]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1840-10-30'>Friday, October 30, 1840.</date>
            <place key='38.7167, -87.6667' teiForm='name'>Lawrenceville, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> It appears from Lincoln's letter of October 31, 1840 that he is in
            Lawrenceville on this day.<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%3A225' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to William G.
                  Anderson</xref>, 31 October 1840, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:211.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1840-10-31'>Saturday, October 31, 1840.</date>
            <place key='38.7167, -87.6667' teiForm='name'>Lawrenceville, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> In reply to note received day before from W. G. Anderson, Lincoln denies he
            is aggressor in difficulty between them. His statements, he says, were made as fair
            set-off to those of Anderson, and he entertains no unkind feelings, and regrets
               altercation.<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%3A225' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to William G.
                  Anderson</xref>, 31 October 1840, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:211.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>