January 24, 1842

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         <dateline> 
            <date value='1842-01-24'>Monday,
  January 24, 1842.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield,
  IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes out a statement
  concerning the bank accounts of his former law partnership with John T. Stuart
  and of his current practice with attorney Stephen T. Logan. After transferring
  funds from the Stuart-Lincoln account into the Lincoln-Logan account, Lincoln
  cannot reconcile an $11.29 positive balance. Regarding the surplus, Lincoln
  writes that he does not know "exactly to whom it belongs." Lincoln notes that
  he has "put [the money] in my pocket, holding myself responsible to whomever
  may hereafter prove to be the owner." <bibl default='NO'>Memorandum, 24 January 1842, Private Collection;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln1;node=lincoln1%3A289' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Memorandum Concerning Bank
  Account of Stuart &amp; Lincoln</xref>, 24 January 1842,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:267.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>