<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1842-08-01'>Monday, August 1, 1842.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln votes for Joseph Duncan for governor, S. T. Logan, J. N. Brown, W.
            Hickman, and W. Caldwell for representatives, W. F. Elkin for sheriff, and Jechoniah
            Langston for coroner.<bibl default='NO'>Election Returns.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1842-08-02'>Tuesday, August 2, 1842.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Someone, perhaps Lincoln, deposits $15 cash into Lincoln's account at a
    Springfield store/bank. <bibl default='NO'>Account of Abraham Lincoln (copy), 2
     August 1842, Irwin &amp; Corneau Account Book, 282, microfilm, IHi, Springfield, IL.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1842-08-04'>Thursday, August 4, 1842.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln draws up affidavit and praecipe and requests clerk of Sangamon
            Circuit Court to issue summons in <name type='case' key='L04091'>Norris
               v. Bunn</name>. Norris charges that Bunn has accused him of forging note in New
            Jersey which Bunn paid. Lincoln represents plaintiff in court March 21, 1843, and case
            is dismissed by agreement.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1842-08-06'>Saturday, August 6, 1842.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Logan &amp; Lincoln file the petition for bankruptcy of William L.
            Wilmans of Grayville, Illinois, in the U.S. District Court. Judge Pope sets <name type='case' key='L02438'>In re Wilmans</name> for an October 1, 1842,
            preliminary hearing.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln files declaration and enters himself security for costs in <name type='case' key='L01064'>Justice &amp; Justice v. Garth</name>,
            trespass case in Tazewell County.<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1842-08-12'>Friday,
  August 12, 1842.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield,
  IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> According to "Register," Lincoln learns
  that Joseph Duncan, Whig, has been defeated for governor. "The tears fairly
  came into Lincoln's eyes when the news arrived." Reporter adds: "We understand
  that Maj. [E. D.] Baker is anxious to sell his claims to a seat in the U.S.
  Senate, for a place in the U.S. House of Representatives. Lincoln won't trade
  with him."<bibl default='NO'>Register, 26 August 1842.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1842-08-15'>Monday, August 15, 1842.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes "Friend Walker" enclosing court order "allowing your
            assignee to sell your property on a credit . . . take their <uLine>bonds</uLine> and security . . . and in the final settlement . . . set off their
            dividends against those bonds."<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%3A309' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to [Isaac P.?]
                  Walker</xref>, 15 August 1842, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:291.</bibl>****</p>
         <p> Lincoln for complainant and S. Strong for defendants sign agreement
            allowing complainant's withdrawal of notes and mortgages sued on in <name type='case' key='L01602'>Ware v. Hobbs &amp; Jones</name>.<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy; Christian County File.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1842-08-19'>Friday, August 19, 1842.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [First "Rebecca letter" appears in Sangamo Journal, provoking Whig laughter
            at expense of James Shields, auditor.]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1842-08-23'>Tuesday, August 23, 1842.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln, John Williams, Robert Irwin, and Benjamin Talbott sign William F.
            Elkin's bond for $10,000. as sheriff of Sangamon County.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1842-08-25'>Thursday, August 25, 1842.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes, swears, and files affidavit and petition for writ of
            attachment, signed by his client William Dormady, in <name type='case' key='L03147'>Dormody v. Cavanaugh</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='1842-08-27'>Saturday, August 27, 1842.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes (or completes) 2,500-word essay in series of pseudonymous
            attacks on James Shields in "Sangamo Journal," signs himself "Rebecca &#8212;," and
            delivers it to newspaper.<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%3A310' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>The "Rebecca" Letter</xref>,
               27 August 1842, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>,
            1:291-97.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1842-08-29'>Monday, August 29, 1842.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Henry Clay is invited to visit Springfield in letter from executive
            committee of "Clay Club," of which Lincoln is member. Clay, September 6, 1842, declines
            with thanks.<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%3A311' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Henry
               Clay</xref>, 29 August 1842, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:297.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln writes bill of injunction, which his client Peter Van Bergen signs
            and swears before Judge Treat, in <name type='case' key='L04784'>VanBergen v. Witmer et al.</name>
            <bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress,
               Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>