<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1841-09-06'>Monday, September 6, 1841.</date>
            <place key='38.2500, -85.7500' teiForm='name'>Louisville, KY</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Some time before he leaves Kentucky, Mrs. Lucy G. Speed presents Lincoln
            with Oxford Bible. On October 3, 1861, Lincoln sent Mrs. Speed his photograph with
            inscription: "For Mrs. Lucy G. Speed, from whose pious hand I accepted the present of an
            Oxford Bible twenty years ago."<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1841-09-07'>Tuesday, September 7, 1841.</date>
            <place key='38.2500, -85.7500' teiForm='name'>Louisville, KY</place> and <place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place>
            to <place key='38.6167, -90.1833' teiForm='name'>St. Louis, MO</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln and Speed leave Louisville at noon on steamboat Lebanon for St.
               Louis.<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%3A280' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Mary
               Speed</xref>, 27 September 1841, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:259-61.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1841-09-08'>Wednesday, September 8, 1841.</date>
            <place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place>.</dateline>
         <p> "Nothing of interest happened during the passage," wrote Lincoln, "except
            the vexatious delays occasioned by the sand bars be thought interesting." He did,
            however, find interest in a dozen Negroes chained together "like so many fish upon a
            trot-line." On August 24, 1855 he wrote Joshua F. Speed: "That sight was a continual
            torment to me; and I see something like it every time I touch the Ohio."<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%3A280' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Mary
               Speed</xref>, 27 September 1841, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:259-61; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A339' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Joshua F.
                  Speed</xref>, 24 August 1855, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:320-23.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1841-09-08'>Wednesday, September 8, 1841.</date>
            <place key='40.4833, -88.9833' teiForm='name'>Bloomington, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [McLean County Circuit Court opened yesterday, and remains in session all
            week.]****Should there be 2 September 8th days?</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1841-09-11'>Saturday, September 11, 1841.</date>
            <place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Wedding of James C. Conkling to Mercy A. Levering takes place at home of
            Lawrason Levering. Miss Levering is close friend of Mary Todd, and Conkling and Lincoln
            are friends. At Rushville, celebrated case of <name type='case' key='L03870'>Wright et al. v. Adams</name> is called. Another solicitor acts for
            Lincoln as case is remanded to Sangamon County, judge of Fifth Judicial Circuit having
            been counsel in case.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1841-09-13'>Monday,
  September 13, 1841.</date> On <place key='' teiForm='name'>Steamboat
  <ital>Lebanon</ital>
            </place> and <place key='38.6167, -90.1833' teiForm='name'>St. Louis, MO</place>
         </dateline>
         <p> In his letter to Mary Speed September 27, 1841
  Lincoln writes: "reached St. Louis the next monday at 8 P.M."
  <bibl default='NO'>Missouri Republican, 14 September 1841;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln1;node=lincoln1%3A280' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Mary
  Speed</xref>, 27 September 1841, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:259-61.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1841-09-14'>Tuesday, September 14, 1841.</date>
            <place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place> to <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Two-day stage journey took passengers from St. Louis to Springfield. Fall
            courts opened at Tremont September 16, 1841. It is assumed that Lincoln was anxious to
            attend Tazewell Court where he had a good practice and therefore came to Springfield by
            stage rather than by boat up Illinois River.]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1841-09-15'>Wednesday, September 15, 1841.</date>
            <place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place> to <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Stage probably arrives late in afternoon.]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1841-09-16'>Thursday,
  September 16, 1841.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield,
  IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> In letter to Mary Speed September 27,
  1841, Lincoln says: "When we reached Springfield, I staid but one day when I
  started on this tedious circuit where I now am."
  <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%3A280' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Mary
  Speed</xref>, 27 September 1841, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:259-61.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1841-09-17'>Friday, September 17, 1841.</date>
            <place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place> to <place key='40.5167, -89.4833' teiForm='name'>Tremont, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Journey from Springfield to Tremont requires day. Court opened yesterday
            for six-day term. [In <name type='case' key='L01059'>Field v. Averill
               &amp; Lowell</name>, court awards plaintiff $364.50 and costs by default when
            Lincoln does not appear to defend.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1841-09-18'>Saturday, September 18, 1841.</date>
            <place key='40.5167, -89.4833' teiForm='name'>Tremont, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> "Do you remember," he writes Mary Speed September 27, 1841, "my going to
            the city while I was in Kentucky, to have a tooth extracted, and making a failure of it?
            Well, that same old tooth got to paining me so much, that about a week since I had it
            torn out, bringing with it a bit of the jaw-bone; . . . my mouth is now so sore that I
            can neither talk, nor eat."<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%3A280' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Mary
               Speed</xref>, 27 September 1841, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:259-61.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1841-09-20'>Monday, September 20, 1841.</date>
            <place key='40.5167, -89.4833' teiForm='name'>Tremont, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> In <name type='case'>Thorp v. Bole and Hinman</name>,
            defendant enters motion to quash sheriff's return. It is sustained by court and case
            continued. <name type='case'>Thorp v. Bole et al.</name> is continued. In
            both cases Logan &amp; Lincoln represent plaintiff and Jones and James
               defendants.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln writes answer of Gideon Hawley in <name type='case' key='L01112'>Mather, Lamb &amp; Co. v. Hawley et al.</name>
            <bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1841-09-21'>Tuesday, September 21, 1841.</date>
            <place key='40.5167, -89.4833' teiForm='name'>Tremont, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes and files amendments in <name type='case' key='L01202'>Chipman v. Higgins</name>, chancery case.<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1841-09-22'>Wednesday, September 22, 1841.</date>
            <place key='40.5167, -89.4833' teiForm='name'>Tremont, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln draws up and files plaintiff's demurrer to defendant's pleas in
               <name type='case' key='L01245'>Perkins v. Hall</name>. He signs name
            of Jesse B. Thomas to demurrer as attorney for defendant. He writes amendment to bill in
               <name type='case' key='L01188'>Wilson v. Alexander</name>.<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1841-09-23'>Thursday, September 23, 1841.</date>
            <place key='40.5167, -89.4833' teiForm='name'>Tremont, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln delivers and files special plea to set aside default (September 17,
            1841) in <name type='case' key='L01059'>Field v. Averill &amp;
            Lowell</name>. Judgment is sustained and defendants allowed appeal.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> [Woodford Circuit Court holds first session at Versailles. Logan &amp;
            Lincoln are represented by Logan, while Lincoln apparently goes to Clinton, arriving in
            time to file bill in chancery (real estate) in <name type='case' key='L00586'>Peter v. Martin 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='1841-09-24'>Friday, September 24, 1841.</date>
            <place key='40.5167, -89.4833' teiForm='name'>Tremont, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [<name type='case' key='L01825'>Sunderland v. Piggott</name>
            in Woodford Circuit Court is dismissed for want of jurisdiction in court below. Lincoln
            (in absentia) and Jones are for plaintiff and Thomas for defendant.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1841-09-26'>Sunday, September 26, 1841.</date>
            <place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place> to <place key='40.4833, -88.9833' teiForm='name'>Bloomington,
         IL</place>.</dateline>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1841-09-27'>Monday,
  September 27, 1841.</date> 
            <place key='40.4833, -88.9833' teiForm='name'>Bloomington,
  IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes Mary Speed long letter
  giving account of what has happened since he left Louisville September 7, 1841.
  "Tell your mother that I have not got her `present' [Oxford Bible] with me; but
  that I intend to read it regularly when I return home. . . . I shall be verry
  happy to receive a line from you, . . . address it to Charleston, Coles Co.
  Ills as I shall be there about the time to receive it."
  <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%3A280' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Mary
  Speed</xref>, 27 September 1841, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:259-61.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>