<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1840-06-01'>Monday, June 1, 1840.</date>
            <place key='39.5333, -89.2833' teiForm='name'>Taylorville, IL</place>
         </dateline>
         <p> Dane County (Christian) Circuit Court holds oneday session. Defendants default in
     <name type='case' key='L01508'>Baker v. Addington et al.</name>, and James C.
    Conkling is appointed guardian <ital>ad litem</ital>. Court examines complainant's exhibits and
    appoints Levi W. Goodan commissioner to convey land described in complainant's bill. Lincoln
    filed bill April 2, 1840. Commissioner's report is approved June 2, 1842. <bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>Stuart &amp; Lincoln buy $1.75 worth of merchandise from a Springfield merchant.
     <bibl default='NO'>Account (copy), 1 June 1840, Irwin &amp; Corneau Account Book, 185, microfilm, IHi,
     Springfield, IL.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1840-06-02'>Tuesday,
  June 2, 1840.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Delegations from all over state begin arriving for Young Men's
  Whig convention. "The spectator who looked on and saw the long lines of wagons,
  canoes, etc., filled with men and the hundreds on horseback, might well have
  supposed that the whole sucker state had broken loose."
  <bibl default='NO'>IHi&#8212;Trans., 1914, 160.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1840-06-03'>Wednesday, June 3, 1840.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Convention organizes at Pavilion at 8 A.M. At 10 grand procession begins.
            First come soldiers of Revolution, War of 1812, then delegations from Missouri, Indiana,
            and Iowa, followed by delegations from 59 counties. Cook County takes lead with band and
            miniature brig 30 feet long.<bibl default='NO'>IHi&#8212;Trans.,
               1914, 160.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1840-06-04'>Thursday, June 4, 1840.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> After excitement of previous day&#8212;barbecue and afternoon and
            evening of continuous speaking&#8212;today's business meeting is tame, enlivened
            only by noisy departures of delegations.<bibl default='NO'>IHi&#8212;Trans., 1914, 160.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> "Humbug," says Democratic "Register," pointing out that Whigs convened on
            birthday of George III.<bibl default='NO'>Register, 5 June 1840.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1840-06-05'>Friday, June 5, 1840.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes and files in County Commissioner's Court Thomas Suddeth's
            affidavit re road.<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> He writes declaration in <name type='case' key='L04860'>Wagoner v. Porter</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='1840-06-06'>Saturday, June 6, 1840.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln replaces William Brown as attorney for defendant in error in
            Supreme Court case of <name type='case' key='L00865'>Thomas v. Broadwell
               et al.</name>, appeal from Morgan County, and renews Brown's motion to have case
            stricken from docket. Court grants motion.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1840-06-08'>Monday, June 8, 1840.</date>
            <place key='40.0000, -89.8333' teiForm='name'>Petersburg, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Menard Circuit Court opens two-day term. In <name type='case' key='L00386'>Sears et al. v. Siemers et al.</name>, land title petition, Lincoln for
    complainant moves that David H. Rutledge (brother of Ann Rutledge) be appointed guardian
     <ital>ad litem</ital> for Melvina and Levi Summers. In <name type='case' key='L00302'>Northern v. May</name>, appeal, Lincoln, defendant's attorney, wins jury
     verdict.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1840-06-09'>Tuesday, June 9, 1840.</date>
            <place key='40.0000, -89.8333' teiForm='name'>Petersburg, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> In <name type='case' key='L00386'>Sears et al. v. Siemers et
               al.</name>, judge orders land transferred in accordance with complainants' bill,
            complainants to pay costs. This case, commenced November 11, 1839, had been continued on
            Lincoln's motion to this term. Lincoln writes court decree and answer of David H.
            Rutledge, guardian.<bibl default='NO'>Record; Herndon-Weik Collection,
               Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1840-06-10'>Wednesday, June 10, 1840.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> On motion of Giles Spring, attorney for plaintiff in error in <name type='case' key='L02484'>Scammon v. Cline</name>, defendant is ruled
            to join in error. Lincoln appears for defendant in error, considered Lincoln's first
            appearance in Supreme Court; apparently, however, he was attorney in <name type='case' key='L00865'>Thomas v. Broadwell et al.</name> June 6, 1840.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1840-06-11'>Thursday,
  June 11, 1840.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> In U.S. Circuit Court Stuart &amp; Lincoln, attorneys for
  plaintiffs, file declaration in <name type='case' key='L02105'>Atwood et al. v. Links</name>. Plaintiffs, Pennsylvania firm,
  are suing to collect on note for $1,269.25. After hearing evidence, Judges
  McLean and Pope award plaintiff $1,643.76 damages. 
  <bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Stuart
  &amp; Lincoln withdraw $20 cash from their account with a Springfield merchant.
  <bibl default='NO'>Account (copy), 11 June 1840, Irwin &amp;
  Corneau, 185, microfilm, IHi, Springfield, IL.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1840-06-12'>Friday, June 12, 1840.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Summer term of U.S. District and Circuit courts end.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Sangamo Journal</title>, 19 June 1840.</bibl>]</p>
         <p> Lincoln writes power of attorney to S. T. Logan for signature of Garrett
            Elkin and John Constant, re <name type='case' key='L04335'>Peter v. Elkin
               &amp; Constant</name>. Filed July 14, 1840.<bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1840-06-13'>Saturday, June 13, 1840.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Lincoln is busy as member of Whig state central committee preparing
            address to people to silence clamour against Harrison on abolition and slavery. This is
            published in "The Old Soldier" and as pamphlet.<bibl default='NO'>ISLA&#8212;A. G. Henry to J. C. Howell, 13 June 1840, Photocopy;
               ISLA&#8212;File.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1840-06-15'>Monday, June 15, 1840.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Tenth issue of "The Old Soldier" is published.<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1840-06-16'>Tuesday, June 16, 1840.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes Jonathan G. Randall of Rushville of loss suffered by
            Randall's son Richard in Springfield. "The rascally Whigs, through a mistake, took his
            trunk containing all his clothes off to Chicago, and his heart is almost broken. Make
            him up some new ones just as you know he needs and make his heart glad."<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%3A223' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Jonathan G.
                  Randall</xref>, 16 June 1840, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:210.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1840-06-17'>Wednesday, June 17, 1840.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln draws agreement between Reuben Radford and James F. Reed regarding
            division of $1000 involved in lawsuit of <name type='case' key='L04447'>Roberts for use of McConnel, Ormsbee &amp; Co. v. Radford</name>. Lincoln
            receives $50 attorney fees from John Hogan, former commissioner of Board of Public
               Works.<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1840-06-18'>Thursday, June 18, 1840.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln makes his first argument in Supreme Court when he appears for
            defendant in <name type='case' key='L02484'>Scammon v. Cline</name>.
            Lincoln argues that appeal from justice of peace should have been taken to circuit court
            of Jo Daviess County instead of Boone County, as held by latter court. He loses case
            when Supreme Court on February 24, 1841 reverses decision of Boone Circuit Court.<bibl default='NO'>Record; 3 Ill. 456.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1840-06-19'>Friday, June 19, 1840.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes and signs assignment of errors in <name type='case' key='L01251'>James &amp; Leonard v. Hughill</name>.<bibl default='NO'>File.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1840-06-22'>Monday, June 22, 1840.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln draws draft for $35.93 on Simeon B. Williams of St. Louis, payable
            in ten days "at the counting room of H. N. Davis &amp; Co., at St. Louis." He
            endorses it to Robert Irwin &amp; Co., Springfield.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Copy Book</title>, Robert Irwin &amp; Co., owned by
               Springfield Marine Bank.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1840-06-24'>Wednesday, June 24, 1840.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Stuart, in name of Stuart &amp; Lincoln, asks clerk of Sangamon
            Circuit Court to issue summons in <name type='case' key='L04488'>Thomas
               Simpson v. Samuel L. Hesser</name>, suit to collect debt of $200 and damages of
               $150.<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1840-06-27'>Saturday,
  June 27, 1840.</date> 
            <place key='39.4000, -88.7833' teiForm='name'>Shelbyville, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> "We had a very able address delivered us by General [W. L. D.]
  Ewing; he was followed by Lincoln, but Mr. Lincoln had but a thin audience."
  <bibl default='NO'>Register, 10 July 1840.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1840-06-30'>Tuesday, June 30, 1840.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Stuart &amp; Lincoln buy $15.93 worth of merchandise from a Springfield
    merchant and they deposit $35.93 cash into their account with the merchant. <bibl default='NO'>Account (copy), 30 June 1840, Irwin &amp; Corneau Account Book, 185,
     microfilm, IHi, Springfield, IL.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>