February 25, 1842

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         <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> 
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