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         <dateline>
            <date value='1841-03-01'>Monday, March 1, 1841.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Legislature adjourns without roll call. Supreme Court closes winter term.
            Court did not sit from Feb. 11 to 22 because of reorganization bill.]</p>
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         <dateline>
            <date value='1841-03-03'>Wednesday, March 3, 1841.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln as attorney for Jesse K. Dubois of Lawrenceville deeds to Virgil
            Hickox lot No. 13 in block 15 in Elijah Iles addition to Springfield, for $100.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Deed Record, Book R</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> In <name type='case' key='L04892'>Woods, Stacker &amp;
               Co. v. Taylor</name>, Sangamon County Court case, Lincoln writes praecipe, bond for
            costs, and fills in narration form, signing "Logan &amp; Lincoln."<bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1841-03-04'>Thursday, March 4, 1841.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln does preliminary paper work on three Sangamon Circuit Court cases
            (as on March 3, 1841): <name type='case' key='L02984'>Chamberlin v. Allen
               &amp; Stone</name>; <name type='case' key='L03972'>Maxwell v.
               Allen &amp; Stone</name>; <name type='case' key='L04572'>Stafford
               v. Whitney &amp; Whitney</name>.<bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik
               Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1841-03-05'>Friday, March 5, 1841.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes narration and praecipe in <name type='case' key='L04087'>Neff, Wanton &amp; Co. v. Allen &amp; Stone</name>, signing
            "Logan &amp; Lincoln." He also writes bond for costs, and S. T. Logan signs.<bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress, Washington,
               DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> [John T. Stuart writes to Daniel Webster, secretary of state, recommending
            Lincoln to be charg&#233; d' affaires at Bogota. "Stuart was evidently trying to
            secure a change of climate for his law partner, Lincoln, who, after the fiasco of his
            broken-off marriage to<person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mary Todd</person> was in a
            mood of profound depression."<bibl default='NO'>Claude M. Fuess, <title>Daniel Webster</title>, 2 vols. (Boston: Little, Brown, 1930),
               2:94.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1841-03-06'>Saturday, March 6, 1841.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln completes petition for partition in <name type='case' key='L02849'>Burns et al. v. Ford 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='1841-03-07'>Sunday,
  March 7, 1841.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Conkling in letter to Mercy Levering says: "And L. (Lincoln)
  poor, hapless, simple swain who loved most true but was not loved again&#8212;I
  suppose he will now endeavor to drown his cares among the intricacies and
  perplexities of the law. No more will the merry peal of laughter ascend high in
  the air, to greet his listening and delighted ears."
  <bibl default='NO'>Sandburg and Angle, 180.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1841-03-08'>Monday, March 8, 1841.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes and files, for Mary Shelby, complainant, bill for divorce
            and summons in <name type='case' key='L04525'>Shelby v. Shelby</name>,
            Sangamon Circuit Court.<bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik Collection,
               Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1841-03-09'>Tuesday, March 9, 1841.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes and files bill in chancery case of <name type='case' key='L03071'>William B. Crane v. Samuel Grubb</name> in Sangamon
            Circuit Court (separate case from that of November 26, 1840).<bibl default='NO'>CSmH&#8212;Original.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> He writes narration in <name type='case' key='L04883'>Wilkinson v. Taylor, Breese &amp; Co.</name>, adds two amendments, and signs
            "Logan &amp; Lincoln."<bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik Collection,
               Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1841-03-10'>Wednesday, March 10, 1841.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes narration, and signs "Logan &amp; Lincoln," in another
            Sangamon Circuit Court case, <name type='case' key='L04780'>VanBergen v.
               Ball &amp; Long</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='1841-03-23'>Tuesday, March 23, 1841.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Sangamon County Circuit Court opens two-week term. In <name type='case' key='L04659'>Throckmorton &amp; Everett v. Francis et al.</name>,
            Stuart &amp; Lincoln obtain $674 debt and damages for plaintiff. Lincoln dismisses
            at plaintiff's cost <name type='case' key='L02660'>James Bell &amp;
               Co. v. Mitchell</name>. <name type='case' key='L04926'>Webb v.
            Parrin</name> is dismissed at defendant's cost. Logan &amp; Lincoln for plaintiff
            appear for first time together.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln annotates papers in <name type='case' key='L04780'>VanBergen v. Ball &amp; Long</name> (collecting on promissory note of March 16,
            1833 for $26).<bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of
               Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1841-03-24'>Wednesday, March 24, 1841.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> In <name type='case' key='L04251'>People v. Johnson
               &amp; Johnson</name>, damage suit for obstructing water course, jury brings in
            verdict of not guilty. Logan &amp; Lincoln appear for defendant. Lincoln appears for
            defendant in <name type='case' key='L03162'>Duncan v. Parsons</name>.
            Case is tried, and lower court judgment affirmed for $3.64.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1841-03-25'>Thursday, March 25, 1841.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln represents plaintiff in two assumpsit suits. In <name type='case' key='L02786'>Brown v. Thomas &amp; Crowder</name>, and <name type='case' key='L04154'>Neff, Wanton &amp; Co. v. Francis</name>,
            defendants default and damages of $335.95 and $397.44 are awarded. <name type='case' key='L02549'>Allen v. Lindsay et al.</name> is dismissed by agreement,
            which Lincoln writes, acting for plaintiff.<bibl default='NO'>Record;
               Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1841-03-26'>Friday, March 26, 1841.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln has ten cases in Circuit Court. <name type='case' key='L03247'>W. &amp; C. Fellows v. Allen &amp; Stone</name>, <name type='case' key='L04572'>Stafford v. Whitney &amp; Whitney</name>,
            and <name type='case' key='L04511'>Rowland, Smith &amp; Co. v.
               Francis et al.</name>, he wins by default. Logan &amp; Lincoln also get three
            judgments by default. <name type='case' key='L03972'>Maxwell v. Allen
               &amp; Stone</name>, and <name type='case' key='L04087'>Neff,
               Wanton &amp; Co. v. Allen &amp; Stone</name> are dismissed at defendant's
            cost, Logan &amp; Lincoln for plaintiffs.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln writes and revises declaration in <name type='case' key='L03247'>W. &amp; C. Fellows v. Allen &amp; Stone</name>, and two
            papers (joinder in demurrer and joinder in plea) in <name type='case' key='L04883'>Wilkinson v. Taylor, Breese &amp; Co.</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='1841-03-29'>Monday,
  March 29, 1841.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield,
  IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln has seven cases in Circuit
  Court. In <name type='case' key='L03966'>May v. VanBergen</name>
  he obtains leave to amend declaration. Three jury trials are won by Logan &amp;
  Lincoln in <name type='case' key='L03480'>Hay v. Hickox</name>, 
  <name type='case' key='L03547'>Hill v. Rague</name>, and 
  <name type='case' key='L04401'>Ransdell v. Mills</name>. In 
  <name type='case' key='L04892'>Woods, Stacker &amp; Co. v.
  Taylor</name>, tried by court, they get judgment for $272.01 and costs. In two
  chancery cases, Lincoln gets order to partition land in one case, and day of
  sale appointed in other.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> He writes court order in 
  <name type='case' key='L03477'>Hay v. Bryan</name>, and writes
  affidavit of Sarah Brown, guardian, explaining why she failed to sell property
  as ordered by court.<bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik Collection,
  Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>