<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1842-10-01'>Saturday, October 1, 1842.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Logan &amp; Lincoln have 13 bankrupt petitions in the U.S. District
            Court. Several are not heard until Monday.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1842-10-03'>Monday, October 3, 1842.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Duelling spirit aroused by Lincoln-Shields affair brings challenge from
            Shields to William Butler. Butler accepts and selects rifles at 100 yards in Robert
            Allen's pasture Tuesday morning. To this Whiteside, Shields' second, will not agree and
            it is called off.<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%3A316' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Joshua F.
                  Speed</xref>, 5 October 1842, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:302-3.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1842-10-04'>Tuesday, October 4, 1842.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Gen. Whiteside sends quasi-challenge to Dr. Merryman to meet him at
            Planters House, St. Louis, Friday. Merryman appoints Lincoln his second. Lincoln acts as
            messenger. Affairs resolves itself into quibbles about notes. High excitement prevails
            in Springfield.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Sangamo Journal</title>, 14 October 1842; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln1;node=lincoln1%3A315' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Statements Concerning the
                  Whiteside-Merryman Affair</xref>, [4] October 1842, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:302; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln1;node=lincoln1%3A316' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Joshua F.
                  Speed</xref>, 5 October 1842, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:302-3.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1842-10-05'>Wednesday, October 5, 1842.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes Speed news of "the duelling business" and inquires how Speed
            feels about his marriage: "That you are happier now than you were the day you married
            her I well know. . . . But I want to ask a closer question&#8212;`Are you now, in
               <uLine>feeling</uLine> as well as <uLine>judgement</uLine>,
            glad you are married as you are?' . . . Please answer it quickly as I feel impatient to
               know."<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%3A316' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Joshua F.
                  Speed</xref>, 5 October 1842, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:302-3.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1842-10-06'>Thursday, October 6, 1842.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln, for defendants, signs notice in <name type='case' key='L02806'>Bryan &amp; Bryan v. Wash et al.</name>
            <bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> [DeWitt Circuit Court convenes for two-day term.]</p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1842-10-07'>Friday, October 7, 1842.</date>
            <place key='40.1500, -88.9500' teiForm='name'>Clinton, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> On his motion, Lincoln is awarded summons to William Turner in <name type='case' key='L00506'>Lincoln v. Turner &amp; Turner</name> and
            case is continued.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1842-10-10'>Monday,
  October 10, 1842.</date> 
            <place key='40.1000, -88.2000' teiForm='name'>Urbana, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Champaign Circuit Court meets today and tomorrow. Lincoln
  represents plaintiff in <name type='case' key='L01450'>State
  Bank of Illinois v. Mitchell et al.</name> Defendant defaults and court orders
  mortgage foreclosed. Defendant is ordered to pay $1,499. In default thereof,
  property is to be appraised and sold.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1842-10-17'>Monday, October 17, 1842.</date>
            <place key='40.1167, -87.6167' teiForm='name'>Danville, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p>
            <name type='case' key='L02061'>Wilson v. Frazier</name>, sheriff, is
            dismissed when Lincoln, for defendant, reports that plaintiff has died. In two other
            cases, <name type='case' key='L01884'>Cunningham v. Fithian &amp;
               Juneau</name> and <name type='case' key='L01972'>McDonald v. Fithian
               &amp; Juneau</name>, Lincoln moves and court orders that complainants plead in
            two days.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1842-10-18'>Tuesday, October 18, 1842.</date>
            <place key='40.1167, -87.6167' teiForm='name'>Danville, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln's report of death of John M. Wilson proves premature, and case is
            reinstated. On Lincoln's motion, court orders that plaintiff give additional security
            for costs and plead in two days or have case dismissed.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1842-10-19'>Wednesday, October 19, 1842.</date>
            <place key='40.1167, -87.6167' teiForm='name'>Danville, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Counsel argues in <name type='case' key='L02061'>Wilson v.
               Frazier</name>, sheriff. Court sets aside order of Tuesday.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1842-10-23'>Sunday, October 23, 1842.</date>
            <place key='40.1167, -87.6167' teiForm='name'>Danville, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Rev. T. O. Prescott of Cincinnati delivers lecture at Christian Church on
            "Second Coming of the Lord." This may have been occasion for Lincoln's story: "It is my
            private opinion that, if the Lord has been in Springfield once, he will never come the
            second time."<bibl default='NO'>Register, 21 October 1842.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1842-10-24'>Monday, October 24, 1842.</date>
            <place key='40.1167, -87.6167' teiForm='name'>Danville, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Shelby County Circuit Court convenes for three-day term at
         Shelbyville.]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1842-10-25'>Tuesday, October 25, 1842.</date>
            <place key='39.4833, -88.1667' teiForm='name'>Charleston, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Coles County Circuit Court convenes at Charleston for five-day term. <name type='case' key='L00740'>Pearson &amp; Anderson v. Monroe
               &amp; Eastin</name>, debt case, argued May 27, 1842, is dismissed at defendant's
               cost.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1842-10-29'>Saturday, October 29, 1842.</date>
            <place key='39.4833, -88.1667' teiForm='name'>Charleston, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Linder and Walker, attorneys for defendant in <name type='case' key='L00731'>Turney v. Craig</name>, file plea. Jury is called and case
            argued by Ficklin and Lincoln for plaintiff, Benjamin D. Turney. Jury finds defendant
            guilty and assesses damages of $300 and costs.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>