<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1841-01-01'>Friday, January 1, 1841.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> On this "fatal first of Jan. '41," Lincoln passes through an emotional
            crisis, the exact nature of which is unknown. One story is that he failed to appear at
            his own wedding; but more probably he broke his engagement with <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mary Todd</person> . Whatever the occurrence, result was acute mental
               anguish.<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%3A298' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Joshua F.
                  Speed</xref>, 27 March 1842, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:282-83.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1841-01-02'>Saturday, January 2, 1841.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> On four votes taken on bill to regulate tavern and grocery licenses,
            Lincoln does not vote, his only activity being two votes for adjournment.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1841-01-04'>Monday, January 4, 1841.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Lincoln's name does not appear on eight votes.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House Journal</title>.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1841-01-05'>Tuesday, January 5, 1841.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Act incorporating town of Galesburg in Knox County is passed, 52-31,
            Lincoln voting aye. His name does not appear on three afternoon roll calls.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln writes and files bill for divorce of <name type='case' key='L04006'>Ann McDaniel v. Patrick McDaniel</name> in Sangamon Circuit Court,
            signing "Logan &amp; Lincoln for Complainant."<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1841-01-06'>Wednesday, January 6, 1841.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Act providing for safekeeping and delivery of public money is read third
            time and rejected 41-41, Lincoln voting nay.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1841-01-07'>Thursday, January 7, 1841.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Hardin moves to take up circuit court bill laid on table yesterday. Motion
            is agreed to 43-40, Lincoln voting aye.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1841-01-08'>Friday, January 8, 1841.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> To celebrate Jackson's victory at New Orleans, House dispenses with rules,
            63-19, Lincoln voting aye; and aye on vote of respect to Jackson's memory. On resolution
            that military fame of Andrew Jackson has been rivalled by his equally successful and
            distinguished services to nation as statesman and benefactor, Lincoln casts negative
               vote.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1841-01-09'>Saturday, January 9, 1841.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln votes with majority to table resolution to instruct Judiciary
            Committee to inquire into expediency of reporting stay law bill, to stay proceedings on
            judgments and executions.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1841-01-11'>Monday, January 11, 1841.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln opposes investigation of accounts of late Board of Public
               Works.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1841-01-12'>Tuesday, January 12, 1841.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln answers two of four roll calls.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1841-01-13'>Wednesday, January 13, 1841.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln is
  absent from legislature because of illness.</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1841-01-14'>Thursday, January 14, 1841.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln is absent from legislature because of illness.</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1841-01-15'>Friday, January 15, 1841.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln is absent from legislature because of illness.****Ask John if
            legislature would have met on Saturday 1/16/41. Should I put that Lincoln was still sick
            on Saturday and Sunday?</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1841-01-18'>Monday, January 18, 1841.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln is still absent from legislature. His condition is suggested by
    correspondent of John J. Hardin: "We have been very much distressed, on Mr. Lincoln's account;
    hearing he had two Cat fits, and a Duck fit since we left. Is it true? Do let me hear soon."
     <bibl default='NO'>Martin McKee to Hardin, 22 January 1841, John J. Hardin
     Papers, Chicago History Museum, Chicago, IL.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1841-01-19'>Tuesday, January 19, 1841.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln attends legislature for at least part of day, but he "is reduced
            and emanciated in appearance and seems scarcely to possess strength enough to speak
            above a whisper. His case at present is truly deplorable but what prospect there may be
            for ultimate relief I cannot pretend to say."<bibl default='NO'>Carl
               Sandburg and Paul M. Angle, Mary Lincoln, 179.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform' type='Revised'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1841-01-20'>Wednesday, January 20, 1841.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p>Lincoln
  writes to his law partner Congressman John T. Stuart regarding the appointment
  of a postmaster for Springfield, Illinois. Lincoln recommends Dr. Anson G.
  Henry, in part, out of his desire to keep Henry in Springfield. Lincoln writes,
  "I have, within the last few days, been making a most discreditable exhibition
  of myself in the way of hypochondriaism and thereby got an impression that Dr.
  Henry is necessary to my existence." Lincoln apologizes for not "writing more;
  I have not sufficient composure to write a long letter."
  <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%3A247' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to John T.
  Stuart</xref>, 20 January 1841, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:228-29.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1841-01-21'>Thursday, January 21, 1841.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Long fight to change Supreme Court from Whig to Democratic begins. Lincoln
            opposes addition of five new judges. Senate bill to increase payment of bounty on wolf
            scalps is postponed indefinitely, Lincoln voting aye.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1841-01-22'>Friday, January 22, 1841.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln votes on morning roll call. In evening he attends meeting of
            friends at Butler's where he submits question of Stuart's re-election to Congress and
            finds all in favor.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House Journal</title>; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln1;node=lincoln1%3A248' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to John T.
                  Stuart</xref>, 23 January 1841, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:229-30.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform' type='Revision'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1841-01-23'>Saturday,
  January 23, 1841.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield,
  IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes to his law partner
  Congressman John T. Stuart and discusses Stuart's possible bid for re-election.
  In the second half of the letter, Lincoln reveals that he is suffereing an
  intense bout of depression as he writes, "I am now the most miserable man
  living. If what I feel were equally distributed to the whole human family,
  there would not be one cheerful face on the earth. Whether I shall ever be
  better I can not tell; I awfully forebode I shall not. To remain as I am is
  impossible; I must die or be better, it appears to me." 
  <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%3A248' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to John T.
  Stuart</xref>, 23 January 1841, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:229-30.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1841-01-25'>Monday, January 25, 1841.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> House some days ago amended Senate reapportionment bill. Trumbull moves
            that House recede from its amendments; motion is lost, 32-54, Lincoln voting nay.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1841-01-26'>Tuesday,
  January 26, 1841.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield,
  IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> House devotes most of morning to
  resolutions, amendments, and roll calls on ways and means of collecting third
  installment [$16,666.66] due state from Springfield citizens on $50,000 pledge
  toward erection of state house. Lincoln favors payment.
  <bibl default='NO'> 
               <title>House
  Journal</title>.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln writes and signs
  declaration in <name type='case' key='L04511'>Rowland, Smith
  &amp; Co. v. Francis 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='1841-01-27'>Wednesday, January 27, 1841.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> On Lincoln's motion, Senate bill for "act making an appropriation for work
            done on the State House," is read third time and passed. He introduces bill for "act
            authorizing certain debtors of the State to discharge their indebtedness in Illinois
            Internal Improvement scrip." Under this bill, passed later in session, Springfield pays
            debt. Lincoln speaks in favor of Hardin's resolution of January 26, 1841 that House
            adjourn sine die February 22, 1841.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1841-01-28'>Thursday, January 28, 1841.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln votes for amendment to act relative to payment of auditor's
            warrants, and later against passage of bill. He opposes amendment to move adjournment
            date from February 22, 1841 February 23, 1841 February 24, 1841 February 25, 1841
            February 26, 1841 February 27, 1841 February 28, 1841 March 1, 1841.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1841-01-29'>Friday, January 29, 1841.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln presents petition of Sangamon citizens to authorize Richard C.
            Norred to erect milldam across Sangamon River. On his motion it is referred to select
            committee of which he is appointed chairman and Francis of Sangamon and White of Logan
            members. On two roll calls he opposes bill reorganizing judiciary.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1841-01-30'>Saturday, January 30, 1841.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln favors act granting timber belonging to internal improvement system
            to county of Vermilion for building bridge on abutments erected for Northern Cross
            Railroad over Big Vermilion River at Danville. Bill is tabled.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>