<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1841-11-01'>Monday, November 1, 1841.</date>
            <place key='39.5333, -89.2833' teiForm='name'>Taylorville, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln has five cases in Christian County Circuit Court, which meets in one-day
    session. Four cases are continued and one dismissed by agreement at cost of defendant. Lincoln
    appears for plaintiff in one case alone, with May in one case, and in others with Logan. <bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> [A debit of $2.93, carried over from the Lincoln &amp; Stuart account, is
    applied to Lincoln's solo account with a Springfield merchant. The merchant credits Lincoln's
    account with $62.50 for "Profit &amp; Loss", and Lincoln remits $2.93, settling the Lincoln
    &amp; Stuart account. <bibl default='NO'>Account (copy), 1 November 1841,
     Irwin &amp; Corneau Account Book, 185, 252, microfilm, IHi, Springfield, IL.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Filed at Petersburg is Lincoln's written affidavit and praecipe in <name type='case' key='L00297'>Purkapile v. Hornbuckle</name>, mailed or dispatched
    "by hand". <bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress,
     Washington, DC.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1841-11-02'>Tuesday, November 2, 1841.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Someone, perhaps Lincoln, purchases $1 worth of merchandise from a Springfield
    store and charges it to Abraham Lincoln's account.<bibl default='NO'>Account of
     Abraham Lincoln (copy), 2 November 1841, Irwin &amp; Corneau Account Book, 252, microfilm,
     IHi, Springfield, IL.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1841-11-03'>Wednesday, November 3, 1841.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln does paper work for Logan &amp; Lincoln. In <name type='case' key='L03516'>Herndon v. Cutter</name> he writes declaration and
            praecipe; in <name type='case' key='L01245'>Hall v. Perkins</name> he
            writes and certifies transcript.<bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik
               Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1841-11-04'>Thursday, November 4, 1841.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes in judgment docket; "Received $25. of this judgment being
            the amount assigned to me by the plaintiff" in <name type='case' key='L04401'>Ransdell v. Mills</name>. On March 29, 1841 he obtained judgment for
            $363.27 for plaintiff. [Logan County Circuit Court convenes.]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1841-11-05'>Friday, November 5, 1841.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes declaration in <name type='case' key='L02862'>Campbell v. Smith</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='1841-11-08'>Monday, November 8, 1841.</date>
            <place key='40.0000, -89.8333' teiForm='name'>Petersburg, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Menard Circuit Court opens three-day session. Logan and Lincoln represent
            plaintiff in <name type='case' key='L00297'>Purkapile v.
            Hornbuckle</name>, replevin suit concerning gelding. Case is continued. Lincoln obtains
            leave to amend transcript in <name type='case' key='L00180'>Trent v.
               Taylor</name>. In <name type='case' key='L00201'>Elmore v.
            Bale</name>, Lincoln as attorney for plaintiff asks court to issue attachment against
            Mentor Graham for contempt in failing to attend as witness.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1841-11-09'>Tuesday, November 9, 1841.</date>
            <place key='40.0000, -89.8333' teiForm='name'>Petersburg, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p>
            <name type='case' key='L00180'>Trent v. Taylor</name>, case involving
            right of property, is tried by jury. Jury awards property to complainant, Lincoln's
               client.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln annotates bond of Jacob Bale in <name type='case'>Bale v. Elmore</name>, appeal from justice court.<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1841-11-10'>Wednesday, November 10, 1841.</date> 
            <place key='40.0000, -89.8333' teiForm='name'>Petersburg, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Trespass
  case, <name type='case' key='L00214'>Potter v. Bell</name>, is
  referred to three arbitrators whose award parties agree to accept. Arbitrators
  find that cause of dispute was "brown mare" which Bell stole from Potter, but
  which Potter has recovered. Potter is awarded one cent damages, Bell to pay
  costs. Urquhart and Rutledge represent plaintiff, Lincoln and Bachman
  defendant. Lincoln wins his two other cases.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> He writes receipt for
  $174.42 on back of execution in <name type='case' key='L04480'>Short &amp; Short v. Blankenship &amp; Miller</name>, as
  plaintiff's attorney. "Lincoln solicitor for Replyant" writes replication in 
  <name type='case'>Estep v. Wagoner et al.</name> 
            <bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1841-11-12'>Friday, November 12, 1841.</date>
            <place key='40.0000, -89.8333' teiForm='name'>Petersburg, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Sangamo Journal announces that Lincoln declines being candidate for
            governor.]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1841-11-13'>Saturday, November 13, 1841.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Someone, perhaps Lincoln, purchases 38&#162; worth of merchandise from a
    Springfield store and charges it to Abraham Lincoln's account.<bibl default='NO'>Account of Abraham Lincoln (copy), 13 November 1841, Irwin &amp; Corneau Account Book,
     252, microfilm, IHi, Springfield, IL.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1841-11-15'>Monday, November 15, 1841.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Sangamon Circuit Court begins three-week term. Logan &amp; Lincoln
            appear for complainant, Susan Wallace, in <name type='case' key='L04880'>Wallace v. Wallace</name>, divorce case referred to master in chancery for his
               report.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln writes declaration for Logan &amp; Lincoln in <name type='case' key='L03858'>Lewis v. Goodan</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='1841-11-16'>Tuesday, November 16, 1841.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> In <name type='case' key='L03208'>Edmunds v. Simpson</name>,
            plaintiff is ruled to show cause why security for costs should not be given. Lincoln
            represents plaintiff. Defendant enters motion for injunction in <name type='case' key='L04092'>Norris v. Simpson</name>; in <name type='case' key='L04729'>Whitney v. Taylor et al.</name>, defendants, by Lamborn
            their attorney, enter motion to dissolve injunction. Logan &amp; Lincoln represents
            plaintiff in both cases. Robbins is associated with them in last-mentioned case.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1841-11-17'>Wednesday, November 17, 1841.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Logan &amp; Lincoln have 11 cases in court. Six they win by default,
            obtaining total damages of $2,386.72 for their clients. Two cases are continued and one
            dismissed. On Lincoln's motion, defendant in <name type='case' key='L02862'>Campbell v. Smith</name> is ruled to plead tomorrow.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln draws from auditor $156.90 due to Jesse K. Dubois for making
            abstract of lands entered at Palestine, Ill. from September 1, 1836 to January 1,
               1841.<bibl default='NO'>Auditor's Warrant.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1841-11-18'>Thursday, November 18, 1841.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Logan &amp; Lincoln obtain judgment by default in four cases: <name type='case' key='L02666'>Bennett v. Hart</name>; <name type='case' key='L02862'>Campbell v. Smith</name>; <name type='case' key='L03858'>Lewis v. Goodan</name>; and <name type='case' key='L04681'>Trailor &amp; Myer v. Saunders</name>. In <name type='case' key='L04799'>Warne v. Thayer et al.</name>, defendant withdraws plea
            and Lincoln's client is awarded $450.08; <name type='case' key='L03727'>Kane v. May &amp; Eastham</name> is continued. <name type='case' key='L03928'>Maines v. Braucher</name> is argued before jury by Lincoln for
               plaintiff.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1841-11-19'>Friday, November 19, 1841.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p>
            <name type='case' key='L03140'>Throckmorton &amp; Everett v.
            Dockum</name>, ejectment suit, is tried. Court finds defendant guilty of withholding
            possession of premises and awards estate in fee simple. Logan &amp; Lincoln also win
               <name type='case' key='L03928'>Maines v. Braucher</name> when jury
            awards plaintiff damages of $186. Master in chancery reports allegations true in
            petition of <name type='case' key='L04880'>Wallace v. Wallace</name>.
            Divorce granted.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1841-11-20'>Saturday, November 20, 1841.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> On motion of Lincoln, attorney for plaintiff, <name type='case' key='L03208'>Edmunds v. Simpson</name> is dismissed.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln writes receipt, which his client Mains signs, for $36 for fees in
               <name type='case' key='L03928'>Maines v. Braucher</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='1841-11-22'>Monday,
  November 22, 1841.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield,
  IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Logan &amp; Lincoln get judgments by
  confession for $476.26 in <name type='case' key='L04452'>Thomas
  C. Rockwell &amp; Co. v. E. C. Blankenship &amp; Co. </name>, and $337.30 in 
  <name type='case' key='L02768'>Brookie v. Boardman et al.</name>
            <bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Sangamon
  County Whig convention meets and committee of Lincoln, S. Francis, and William
  Porter drafts resolution endorsing Duncan for governor and Harlan for
  lieutenant-governor. Lincoln is one of five delegates appointed to state
  convention.<bibl default='NO'> 
               <title>Sangamo
  Journal</title>, 26 November 1841.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1841-11-23'>Tuesday, November 23, 1841.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Judge Treat overrules Lamborn's motion, made on 16th and argued Monday, to
            dissolve injunction in <name type='case' key='L04729'>Whitney v. Taylor
               et al.</name>
            <bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1841-11-24'>Wednesday, November 24, 1841.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Logan &amp; Lincoln win by default cases of <name type='case' key='L03898'>Logan v. Grubb</name>, and <name type='case' key='L04898'>Wilson &amp; Brother v. Grubb</name>. <name type='case'>Waldo v. Maters et al.</name> is continued on plaintiff's motion. In
               <name type='case' key='L02659'>James Bell &amp; Co. v.
            Nesbitt</name>, jury awards plaintiff $60 damages. Logan and Lincoln represent
            plaintiffs in all four cases.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1841-11-25'>Thursday, November 25, 1841.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes and files replication to defendant's plea in <name type='case' key='L03516'>Herndon v. Cutter</name>.<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='1841-11-26'>Friday, November 26, 1841.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Logan &amp; Lincoln for plaintiff and Strong and Doremus for defendant
            try <name type='case' key='L04092'>Norris v. Simpson</name> before jury.
            Jury awards defendant $62 and costs. Court sustains Lincoln's demurrer to defendant's
            pleas in <name type='case' key='L04554'>Spear v. Newton &amp;
               Lewis</name>.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln writes pleas in <name type='case' key='L02515'>Abbott v. Primm &amp; Lindsay</name>.<bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1841-11-27'>Saturday, November 27, 1841.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes affidavit in <name type='case' key='L04092'>Norris
     v. Simpson</name>, and has it certified by Marvellous Eastham, clerk of Sangamon Circuit Court.
     <bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress, Washington,
    DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln buys 19&#162; worth of merchandise from a Springfield merchant.<bibl default='NO'>Account (copy), 27 November 1841, Irwin &amp; Corneau Account
     Book, 252, microfilm, IHi, Springfield, IL.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1841-11-29'>Monday, November 29, 1841.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> On Lincoln's motion, defendant is ruled to answer Tuesday in chancery suit of
     <name type='case' key='L04056'>Miller v. Freeman &amp; Freeman</name>.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>Lincoln deposits $40 cash into his account with a Springfield merchant.<bibl default='NO'>Account (copy), 29 November 1841, Irwin &amp; Corneau Account
     Book, 252, microfilm, IHi, Springfield, IL.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1841-11-30'>Tuesday, November 30, 1841.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p>
            <name type='case' key='L04554'>Spear v. Newton &amp; Lewis</name> is
            tried by court. Court awards plaintiff $75 and grants appeal to Supreme Court. Three
            cases are continued. Appeal to Supreme Court is granted in <name type='case' key='L03928'>Maines v. Braucher</name>. Lincoln represents plaintiff in
            each case.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>