<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1843-10-02'>Monday, October 2, 1843.</date>
            <place key='40.1000, -88.2000' teiForm='name'>Urbana, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Champaign Circuit Court convenes for three-day term. In <name type='case' key='L01423'>People v. Spurgeon et al.</name>, assault, Lincoln enters
            plea of not guilty and argues case before jury, which finds Eli, Nancy, and Mary
            Spurgeon not guilty and Joseph and Nathan Spurgeon guilty.<bibl default='NO'>Record; Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1843-10-03'>Tuesday, October 3, 1843.</date>
            <place key='40.1000, -88.2000' teiForm='name'>Urbana, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln argues his motion for new trial in <name type='case' key='L01423'>People v. Spurgeon et al.</name> Lincoln is attorney for Joseph and
            Nathan Spurgeon. Court overrules motion as to Joseph, and sustains it as to Nathan.
            Joseph is fined $20 and costs. Lincoln appears for plaintiff in <name type='case' key='L01450'>State Bank of Illinois v. Mitchell et al.</name>, and
            moves court set aside sale of real estate.<bibl default='NO'>Record;
               Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1843-10-05'>Thursday, October 5, 1843.</date>
            <place key='40.1000, -88.2000' teiForm='name'>Urbana, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Piatt Circuit Court convenes at Monticello.]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1843-10-06'>Friday, October 6, 1843.</date>
            <place key='39.7333, -90.2167' teiForm='name'>Jacksonville, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Morgan County Whigs pay election bet to Sangamon and other Whigs at
            barbecue in Jacksonville. Sangamon gave Hardin twice as great a majority as Morgan in
            congressional election. They thus won proposal made by Lincoln to Hardin May 11, 1843.
            Speeches are made by Lincoln, Baker, and Matheny of Sangamon, Hardin and Yates of
            Morgan, Hay of Pike, and Blackwell of Schuyler.<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%3A341' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Speech at Whig Barbecue at
                  Jacksonville, Illinois</xref>, 6 October 1843, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:329-30.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> "Register" reports: "Yesterday came off the long expected Coon jubilee; and
            if there ever was a failure, I think that will be conceded to have been one. . . .
            [Baker] was succeeded in the evening by himself and another valiant man [Lincoln], who
            once attempted to frighten an Irishman with a broadsword, and who, when he found that
            impracticable, procured his friends to manage `an amicable adjustment'."<bibl default='NO'>Register, 20 October 1843.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> A Chicago Democratic paper takes another tack. "Many `reformed drunkards,'
            Washingtonians, were present, and it being a party affair, all got gloriously drunk
            together. . . . It was unquestionably the most disgraceful affair that ever happened in
            our state."<bibl default='NO'>Chicago Democrat, in Register, 3 November
               1843.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1843-10-09'>Monday, October 9, 1843.</date>
            <place key='39.7333, -90.2167' teiForm='name'>Jacksonville, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Macon County Circuit Court convenes for one-day term.]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1843-10-11'>Wednesday, October 11, 1843.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln receipts on warrant register in auditor's office for $75, salary of
            A. Kitchell, state's attorney for Fourth Judicial Circuit for quarter ending September
            30, 1843. He probably delivers money to Kitchell at Charleston.</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1843-10-12'>Thursday, October 12, 1843.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln pays Obed Lewis $1.25 for carriage repairs.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Obed Lewis Account Books</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> [Moultrie Circuit Court convenes at Sullivan.]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1843-10-16'>Monday,
  October 16, 1843.</date> 
            <place key='39.4833, -88.1667' teiForm='name'>Charleston,
  IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Coles County Circuit Court begins fall
  term. <name type='case' key='L00699'>Bagley v. Vanmeter</name>,
  slander, is tried before jury by Lincoln and Linder. Jury awards plaintiff $80
  damages. By agreement, Lincoln is to have $30 of judgment as fee, Linder $20.
  <bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress,
  Washington, DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> [<person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person>'s hired girl buys pair of shoes for $1 at
  Robert Irwin's store.<bibl default='NO'>Irwin Ledger.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Shelby Circuit Court convenes for three-day term.]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1843-10-18'>Wednesday, October 18, 1843.</date>
            <place key='39.4833, -88.1667' teiForm='name'>Charleston, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln, for complainant in <name type='case' key='L00510'>Taylor v. Wright</name>, Menard County case, writes bill to foreclose mortgage and
            evidently mails it to Petersburg.<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1843-10-19'>Thursday, October 19, 1843.</date>
            <place key='39.4833, -88.1667' teiForm='name'>Charleston, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Springfield Whigs hold "love feast" in evening over party success in recent
    elections in Georgia. <bibl default='NO'>Simeon Francis to John J. Hardin, 19
     October 1843, John J. Hardin Papers, Chicago History Museum, Chicago, IL.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1843-10-20'>Friday, October 20, 1843.</date>
            <place key='39.4833, -88.1667' teiForm='name'>Charleston, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p>
            <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> buys dress material and pair
            of hose for $2.31.<bibl default='NO'>Irwin Ledger.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1843-10-21'>Saturday, October 21, 1843.</date>
            <place key='40.1167, -87.6167' teiForm='name'>Danville, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln wins <name type='case' key='L01972'>McDonald v.
               Fithian &amp; Juneau</name> when court dismisses complainant's bill and awards
            defendant $18.40 and costs. In <name type='case' key='L01884'>Cunningham
               v. Fithian &amp; Juneau</name>, court awards defendant, Lincoln's client, $25.54,
            each party paying costs, with appeal to Supreme Court granted.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> [<person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> buys $3.94
            worth of merchandise.<bibl default='NO'>Irwin Ledger.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1843-10-23'>Monday, October 23, 1843.</date>
            <place key='39.5333, -89.2833' teiForm='name'>Taylorville, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Christian Circuit Court meets. <name type='case' key='L01611'>Young v. Archer &amp; Kilbourn</name> and <name type='case' key='L01546'>Lindsley v. Kilbourn et al.</name> are continued. <name type='case'>Chandler v. Williams</name> is tried by court, and
            plaintiff is awarded $176.19&#189; and costs. Logan &amp; Lincoln appear for
            defendant in first two cases and for plaintiff in latter. Rountree and Lincoln appear
            for plaintiff in <name type='case' key='L01528'>Gilbert v.
            Ralston</name>, which is continued.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> [<person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> buys domestic
            (cloth) and spool of cotton thread for 50&#162;.<bibl default='NO'>Irwin Ledger.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1843-10-24'>Tuesday, October 24, 1843.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Logan &amp; Lincoln acknowledge receipt in full of judgment obtained
            December 10, 1842 in <name type='case' key='L02237'>Wilson et al. v.
               Palmer &amp; Leverick</name> in U.S. Circuit Court.<bibl default='NO'>Execution Docket, 196.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> [In Petersburg, Lincoln's petition and summons written for plaintiff in
               <name type='case' key='L00334'>Miles v. Webb &amp; Rogers</name>
            is filed.<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1843-10-26'>Thursday, October 26, 1843.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Logan County Circuit Court convenes at Postville.]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1843-10-27'>Friday, October 27, 1843.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [In Charleston, assignment of money is made in <name type='case' key='L00699'>Bagley v. Vanmeter</name> under court order written by
               Lincoln.<bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of
               Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1843-10-30'>Monday, October 30, 1843.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln's account is debited 13&#162; for pair of mitts.<bibl default='NO'>Irwin Ledger.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>