<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1842-02-01'>Tuesday, February 1, 1842.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln mails to clerk of Circuit Court of Menard County declaration,
            praecipe, note, and bond for costs in <name type='case' key='L00208'>Plummer &amp; Wilson v. Hoey &amp; Hoey</name>. Plaintiff is seeking to
            collect note for $138.87 given by defendants in Baltimore March 10, 1837.<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> He files petition for divorce of Solomon Goodman against Nancy Goodman and
            asks that summons be issued to defendant.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Sangamo Journal</title>, 4 February 1842.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1842-02-02'>Wednesday, February 2, 1842.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln files petition for divorce of Ann McDaniel against Patrick McDaniel
            and asks summons returnable to March term of Sangamon Circuit Court.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Sangamo Journal</title>, 4 February 1842.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1842-02-03'>Thursday,
  February 3, 1842.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield,
  IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes Speed that Speed's
  anxiety about his fiancee's health "will forever banish those horid doubts" of
  his affection for her. He hopes that her improving health will make Speed
  forget "the sorrows of the past, in the enjoyments of the present. . . . I have
  been quite clear of hypo since you left,&#8212;even better than I was along in
  the fall."<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%3A290' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Joshua
  F. Speed</xref>, 3 February 1842,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:267-68.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1842-02-08'>Tuesday, February 8, 1842.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Before fellow Washington Temperance Society members, Lincoln delivers short
            eulogy on Benjamin Ferguson who died February 3, 1842. He laments that Ferguson was not
            longer spared to carry on temperance work. "In very truth he was, the noblest work of
            God&#8212;an honest man."<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%3A291' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Eulogy on Benjamin
               Ferguson</xref>, 8 February 1842, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:268-69.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1842-02-10'>Thursday, February 10, 1842.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Logan &amp; Lincoln give notice to defendant that writ to attachment
            has been sued out in Sangamon Circuit Court in <name type='case' key='L02647'>Beebe v. Dunn</name>. Several lots in Athens, Illinois are described
            in attachment.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Sangamo Journal</title>, 10 February 1842.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1842-02-11'>Friday, February 11, 1842.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes part of declaration in <name type='case' key='L03146'>Dormody v. Bradford</name>, and declaration in <name type='case' key='L04660'>Thurman v. Taylor</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='1842-02-13'>Sunday, February 13, 1842.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes to Speed: "When this shall reach you, you will have been
            Fanny's husband several days. . . . I am now fully convinced, that you love her as
            ardently as you are capable of loving. . . . If you went through the ceremony <uLine>calmly</uLine> . . . you are safe, beyond question, and in two or three
            months, to say the most, will be the happiest of men."<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%3A292' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Joshua F.
                  Speed</xref>, 13 February 1842, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:269-70.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> [Bowling Green, Lincoln's close friend of New Salem years, dies.]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1842-02-15'>Tuesday, February 15, 1842.</date>
            <place key='39.9788, -89.8420' teiForm='name'>New Salem, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Bowling Green's funeral is probably held today. Lincoln attends, and at Mrs.
    Green's request, tries to say something at grave. Accounts of what he says are conflicting, some
    stating that his remarks are beautiful, others saying he is choked with emotion. <bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Sangamo Journal</title>, 18 February 1842.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln deposits $27.50 cash into his account with a Springfield merchant. <bibl default='NO'>Account (copy), 15 February 1842, Irwin &amp; Corneau Account
     Book, 252, microfilm, IHi, Springfield, IL.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> [Joshua F. Speed and Fanny Henning are married near Louisville. <bibl default='NO'>Joshua F. Speed, <title>Reminiscences of Abraham
      Lincoln and Notes of a Visit to California: Two Lectures</title> (Louisville, KY: J. P.
     Morton, 1884), 5.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1842-02-16'>Wednesday, February 16, 1842.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln instructs G. B. Shelledy, lawyer of Paris, Illinois, how to prepare
            papers in cases Shelledy wants Logan &amp; Lincoln to handle in U.S. Circuit Court.
            Lincoln agrees to attend to them for $10 each when there is no opposition.<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%3A293' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Garland B.
                  Shelledy</xref>, 16 February 1842, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:270-71.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1842-02-17'>Thursday, February 17, 1842.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p>Someone, perhaps Lincoln, purchases $37.81 worth of merchandise from a Springfield
    store and charges it to Abraham Lincoln's account.<bibl default='NO'>Account of
     Abraham Lincoln (copy), 17 February 1842, Irwin &amp; Corneau Account Book, 252, microfilm,
     IHi, Springfield, IL.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1842-02-21'>Monday, February 21, 1842.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Sangamo Journal announces that Judge Pope's "Bankrupt Court" opens in
            Springfield to hear cases under new bankrupt law.]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1842-02-22'>Tuesday,
  February 22, 1842.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield,
  IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> At noon, in the Second Presbyterian
  Church, Lincoln addresses the Washington Temperance Society and declares that
  the recent progress of the temperance movement is due to the efforts of the
  "reformed drunkard" and not to the "warfare" of "denunciation" waged by
  "preachers, lawyers, and hired agents." <bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Sangamo Journal</title> (Springfield, IL), 25 February
  1842, 2:7, 26 March 1842, 1:4-7;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln1;node=lincoln1%3A294' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Temperance Address</xref>,
  22 February 1842, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>,
  1:271-79.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p>A Springfield merchant, who owns a
  store/bank where Lincoln trades, debits Abraham Lincoln's account $1.50 for
  "Profit &amp; Loss." <bibl default='NO'>Account of Abraham
  Lincoln (copy), 22 February 1842, Irwin &amp; Corneau Account Book, 252,
  microfilm, IHi, Springfield, IL.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1842-02-24'>Thursday, February 24, 1842.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes promissory note for retainer in the bankruptcy case <name type='case' key='L02392'>In re Gambrel</name>. James Gambrel signs the
            note, promising to pay "twenty dollars in good fire wood."<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%3A295' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Promissory Note of James
                  Gambrel</xref>, 24 February 1842, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:279.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform' type='Revised'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1842-02-25'>Friday,
  February 25, 1842.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield,
  IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes two letters to his friend
  Joshua F. Speed, who recently moved to Kentucky, where he married Fanny
  Henning. Perhaps Speed had second thoughts about marriage, but Lincoln assures
  him that he has chosen the right mate. To think otherwise would be, in
  Lincoln's estimation, "ridiculous." In the second letter he intended for both
  Joshua and Fanny to read, Lincoln admits to being a little "jealous" and he
  "regret[s] to learn that you have resolved to not return to Illinois. I shall
  be verry lonesome without you."<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%3A296' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Joshua
  F. Speed</xref>, 25 February 1842,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:280-81;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln1;node=lincoln1%3A297' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Joshua
  F. Speed</xref>, 25 February 1842,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:281.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln writes praecipe and bond in 
  <name type='case' key='L01543'>Langley v. Goode</name>. He
  agrees to pay costs in case, gets John W. Wheat to sign bond, and mails to
  Jesse Langley at Taylorville February 28, 1842.
  <bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1842-02-28'>Monday, February 28, 1842.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln draws indenture between Francis Webster and William Butler
            transferring land in Springfield.<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln withdraws $50 of the $60.41 deposited January 24, 1842 and lends it
            to Noah Rickard with Noah Matheny as surety.<bibl default='NO'>Privately
               Owned.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> [Federal Court opens in Springfield. Newspaper terms it "Bankruptcy
               Court."<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Sangamo Journal</title>, 25 February 1842.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>