<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1841-08-02'>Monday, August 2, 1841.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln is 13th voter at poll number one in Springfield precinct. He votes
            for Stuart for Congress, Samuel Wykoff for county commissioner, Isaac S. Britton for
            school commissioner, and against formation of new county of Allen out of Macoupin,
            Morgan, and Sangamon.<bibl default='NO'>Election Returns.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1841-08-03'>Tuesday, August 3, 1841.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> In Sangamon Circuit Court, <name type='case' key='L03966'>May v. VanBergen</name> is dismissed, each party paying half of costs. <name type='case' key='L03738'>Logan v. Whitney</name> is dismissed by
            agreement at defendant's cost. Jury awards plaintiff $222.50 and damages in <name type='case' key='L03477'>Hay v. Bryan</name> in which defendant
            defaulted July 28, 1841. Logan &amp; Lincoln represent plaintiff in all three
               suits.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1841-08-04'>Wednesday, August 4, 1841.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Circuit Court devotes most of day to <name type='case' key='L03380'>Francis &amp; Sanford v. January &amp; Dunlap</name>. Jury is
            called and case tried by Strong for plaintiff and Logan &amp; Lincoln for defendant.
            Jury retires and next morning brings in verdict of $2,556.72 for plaintiff. Lincoln
            writes answer of Philip S. Kreigh filed in <name type='case' key='L03477'>Hay v. Bryan</name>.<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy; Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1841-08-05'>Thursday,
  August 5, 1841.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield,
  IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln has 18 cases alone and with
  Logan in Circuit Court. Nine are continued and six dismissed. In 
  <name type='case' key='L03979'>McComas v. Baker</name>, Lincoln
  confesses indebtedness of his friend Edward D. Baker for $158.65. 
  <name type='case' key='L04480'>Short &amp; Short v. Blankenship
  &amp; Miller</name> is won when defendant defaults. Defendant withdraws his
  demurrer in <name type='case' key='L04883'>Wilkinson v. Taylor,
  Breese &amp; Co.</name>, assumpsit suit in which Logan &amp; Lincoln appear for
  plaintiff.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p>
  Lincoln writes part of W. F. Elkin's report in <name type='case'>Wright v. Hewett and Baker</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='1841-08-06'>Friday, August 6, 1841.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> In Sangamon Circuit Court, continuance of <name type='case' key='L02849'>Burns et al. v. Ford et al.</name> is set aside, and report of
            commissioner appointed at previous term is approved. Lincoln is for complainant and
            Shields for defendants. On Lincoln's motion, defendants in <name type='case' key='L04861'>Wagoner v. Porter et al.</name> are ruled to file their
            answer on 30 days and case is continued.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln writes court order in <name type='case' key='L02849'>Burns et al. v. Ford et al.</name>, and drafts part of jury instructions in <name type='case' key='L02960'>Mallory v. Elkin</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='1841-08-07'>Saturday, August 7, 1841.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Argument for new trial of <name type='case' key='L03380'>Francis &amp; Sanford v. January &amp; Dunlap</name>, decided August 4,
            1841, is heard in Circuit Court. Court orders Philip S. Kreigh who owes Nicholas Bryan
            $40.47 to pay this to Nathaniel Hay and to credit Bryan with this amount on $222.50
            judgment awarded in <name type='case' key='L03477'>Hay v. Bryan</name>
            August 3, 1841. Lincoln writes court decree.<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='1841-08-09'>Monday, August 9, 1841.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> This is last day of summer term of Circuit Court. New trial is granted in
               <name type='case' key='L03380'>Francis &amp; Sanford v. January
               &amp; Dunlap</name>. By agreement, <name type='case' key='L04883'>Wilkinson v. Taylor, Breese &amp; Co.</name> is tried by court. Plaintiff,
            Lincoln's client, is awarded $297.56. By consent of Stuart and Lincoln for plaintiff and
            Douglas and Campbell for defendant, <name type='case' key='L04912'>McNair
               v. Adams</name> is changed to Cass County Circuit Court.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1841-08-10'>Tuesday, August 10, 1841.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln makes affidavit to circuit clerk that Alexander Fulton and Hannah Fulton,
    two defendants in <name type='case' key='L02606'>Barret v. Fulton et al.</name>,
    reside out of state. He makes similar affidavit in regard to Thomas H. Gentry in divorce suit of
     <name type='case' key='L03346'>Gentry v. Gentry</name>.<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>Lincoln buys 75&#162; worth of merchandise from a Springfield merchant.<bibl default='NO'>Account (copy), 10 August 1841, Irwin &amp; Corneau Account
     Book, 252, microfilm, IHi, Springfield, IL.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1841-08-11'>Wednesday, August 11, 1841.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln draws up part of nomination and report of appraisers in <name type='case' key='L04165'>Oliver v. Taylor</name>. At spring term of
            Sangamon Circuit Court he got judgment for plaintiff for $108.90. Town lot involved,
            block from public square, is valued at $25 front foot. He draws up similar papers in
               <name type='case' key='L04892'>Woods, Stacker &amp; Co. v.
               Taylor</name>.<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1841-08-12'>Thursday, August 12, 1841.</date>
            <place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place> to <place key='38.2500, -85.7500' teiForm='name'>Louisville, KY</place>?</dateline>
         <p> [On what date Lincoln starts on his trip to visit Joshua F. Speed at
            Louisville has not been determined. His business in summer term of Sangamon Circuit
            Court is complete and he probably sets out at once.]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1841-08-18'>Wednesday, August 18, 1841.</date> 
            <place key='38.2500, -85.7500' teiForm='name'>Louisville, KY</place>?</dateline>
         <p> [If Lincoln
  left Springfield August 11, 1841, he probably arrives in Louisville today.]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='New' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1841-08-23'>Monday, August 23,
  1841.</date> 
            <place key='' teiForm='name'>[Springfield, IL]</place>.</dateline>
         <p>Someone purchases $0.56 worth of merchandise from a Springfield
  store and charges it to Abraham Lincoln's account. <bibl default='NO'>Account of Abraham
  Lincoln (copy), 23 August 1841, Irwin &amp; Corneau Account Book, 252,
  microfilm, IHi, Springfield, IL.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1841-08-25'>Wednesday, August 25, 1841.</date>
            <place key='38.2500, -85.7500' teiForm='name'>Louisville, KY</place>.</dateline>
         <p> In letter to Speed January 3, 1842, Lincoln says: "After you and I had once
            been at her residence, [Speed's fianc&#233;e] did you not go and take me all the way
            to Lexington and back, for no other purpose but to get to see her again?"<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%3A288' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Joshua F.
                  Speed</xref>, [3? January 1842], <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:265-66.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1841-08-30'>Monday, August 30, 1841.</date>
            <place key='38.2500, -85.7500' teiForm='name'>Louisville, KY</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [At Tremont, Stephen T. Logan files petition in <name type='case' key='L01129'>Tharpe v. Hinman &amp; Hinman</name>, and files
            mortgage deed on which client, Tharpe, seeks to foreclose.<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>