<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1843-02-01'>Wednesday, February 1, 1843.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln files certificate of White County Circuit Court clerk in <name type='case' key='L00489'>Gatewood &amp; Co. v. McGehee</name> (SC)
            and moves writ of error be dismissed for want of prosecution. Motion is allowed.
            Argument is concluded by N. D. Strong in <name type='case' key='L02079'>Fitch et al. v. Pinckard et al.</name>, and case submitted. Judgment is affirmed
            February 9, 1843.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1843-02-03'>Friday, February 3, 1843.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p>
            <name type='case' key='L01733'>Holdridge v. Bayley</name> (SC), appeal
            from LaSalle County, is argued by Lincoln for plaintiff and Peters for defendant. Case
            is submitted.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1843-02-04'>Saturday, February 4, 1843.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p>
            <name type='case' key='L02456'>Payne &amp; Alexander v. Frazier
               &amp; Frazier</name> (SC), appeal from Vermilion, is submitted to court by
            Ficklin for plaintiff and Lincoln for defendant, without argument. On February 7, 1843,
            judgment is reversed and case remanded to lower court. In <name type='case' key='L03219'>State Bank of Illinois v. Condell, Jones &amp; Co.</name> (SC), J.
            B. Thomas files plaintiff's bill and asks court to grant injunction.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1843-02-07'>Tuesday, February 7, 1843.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> On motion of Lincoln, attorney for appellee in <name type='case' key='L01619'>Pentecost &amp; Pickering v. Maghee et al.</name>
            (SC), appellants are ruled to assign errors by February 11, 1843.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln writes declaration in <name type='case' key='L04850'>Wallace v. Francis &amp; Sanford</name>, promissory note action for
               $166.48.<bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of
               Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1843-02-08'>Wednesday, February 8, 1843.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Argument is begun in <name type='case' key='L02088'>Edwards
               et al. v. Helm</name> (SC), suit to foreclose mortgage, from Madison County, by N. D.
            Strong for plaintiff. Lincoln and Junius Hall also represent plaintiff and William
            Martin and B. S. Edwards defendant.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> [Semple, Douglas, and Linder speak on Oregon question in evening at state
               house.<bibl default='NO'>Alton Telegraph, 18 February
         1843.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1843-02-09'>Thursday, February 9, 1843.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Strong continues argument in <name type='case' key='L02088'>Edwards et al. v. Helm</name>.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> [Meeting on Oregon question continues this evening. Hardin, Baker, and
            Matheny express opposition to annexation of Oregon.<bibl default='NO'>Alton Telegraph, 18 February 1843.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1843-02-10'>Friday,
  February 10, 1843.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield,
  IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Martin and B. S. Edwards, attorneys for
  defendant, continue argument in <name type='case' key='L02088'>Edwards et al. v. Helm</name>.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1843-02-11'>Saturday, February 11, 1843.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln concludes argument begun Wednesday in <name type='case' key='L02088'>Edwards et al. v. Helm</name>, and case is submitted.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> (Decree of lower court is reversed and case remanded February 27, 1843. 5
            Ill. 142.) Lincoln writes affidavit for William L. May, for case of <name type='case' key='L01068'>May v. Greene &amp; Loose</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='1843-02-13'>Monday, February 13, 1843.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p>
            <name type='case' key='L04803'>Watkins v. White</name> (SC), replevin
            action, appeal from Sangamon, is submitted to court by Lincoln for appellant and Bledsoe
            for appellee without argument. (Judgment reversed February 25, 1843. 4 Ill. 549.) J. B.
            Thomas argues his application for injunction in <name type='case' key='L03219'>State Bank of Illinois v. Condell, Jones &amp; Co.</name> (SC).
            Application is resisted by Lincoln and Bledsoe.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln files May's affidavit, in <name type='case' key='L01068'>May v. Greene &amp; Loose</name>, and writes bill in
               chancery.<bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of
               Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform' type='Revised'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1843-02-14'>Tuesday,
  February 14, 1843.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield,
  IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p>In letters to two fellow Whigs, Lincoln
  expresses a desire to run for Congress. Lincoln asks his "personal friend"
  Richard S. Thomas, of Virginia, Illinois, to correct the "mistaken" notion of
  "any one" under the impression "that Lincoln don't want to go to Congress."
  Lincoln also makes his ambition known to Alden Hull, "to whom I may, without
  fear, communicate a fact which I wish my particular friends...to know." Lincoln
  considers Hull, of Tazewell County, to be "a good whig, and an honorable 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%3A321' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Alden
  Hull</xref>, 14 February 1843, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:306-7;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln1;node=lincoln1%3A322' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Richard
  S. Thomas</xref>, 14 February 1843,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:307.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1843-02-15'>Wednesday, February 15, 1843.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p>
            <name type='case' key='L00828'>Greathouse &amp; Chesnut v.
            Smith</name>, action of debt from Macoupin County, is submitted to court by Brayman for
            appellant and Lincoln for appellee without argument.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> (On February 18, 1843 judgment of trial court is affirmed. 4 Ill. 541.)</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1843-02-16'>Thursday, February 16, 1843.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p>
            <name type='case'>Frisby et al. v. Ballance et al.</name> (SC), ejectment
            suit involving title to land in Peoria County, is submitted to court on written
            arguments. Lincoln is attorney for plaintiffs in error, and Justin Butterfield appears
            for defendants in error.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1843-02-17'>Friday, February 17, 1843.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Supreme Court refuses to take jurisdiction of plaintiff's application for
            injunction in <name type='case' key='L03219'>State Bank of Illinois v.
               Condell, Jones &amp; Co.</name>
            <bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1843-02-18'>Saturday, February 18, 1843.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln, as attorney for William P. Speed, writes and signs praecipe and
            bond for costs in <name type='case' key='L02730'>Speed v. Boice</name>.
            He writes agreement filed in <name type='case'>State Bank v. Elkin et
            al.</name>, signing for codefendant and their attorneys, "Baker &amp; Bledsoe
            &amp; Logan &amp; Lincoln."<bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik
               Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC; Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1843-02-20'>Monday,
  February 20, 1843.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield,
  IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes affidavit of Thomas
  Rudder in <name type='case' key='L04512'>Rudder v.
  Rudder</name>, who swears it before John Calhoun, clerk of Sangamon Circuit
  Court.<bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of
  Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> [Gen. William F. Thornton
  gives party at Globe Tavern, Lincoln's residence, for legislators and friends,
  moving reporter to write: "There was a sound of revelry by night, and
  Springfield's capital had gathered then, Her beauty and her chivalry, and
  bright&#8212;The lamps shone oe'r fair women and brave men&#8212;"
  <bibl default='NO'>Peoria Democratic Press, 1 March
  1843.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1843-02-22'>Wednesday, February 22, 1843.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Washington's birthday is celebrated in Hall of Representatives. Masons,
            Legislative Temperance Society of 60 members, and Springfield Cadets attend. Addresses
            are given by Hon. A. Jonas, Past M.W.G.M. of Illinois Grand Lodge, and John Dougherty of
               Jonesboro.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Sangamo Journal</title>.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1843-02-24'>Friday, February 24, 1843.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Supreme Court reverses judgment of trial court in <name type='case' key='L01733'>Holdridge v. Bayley</name>, argued February 1, 1843.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1843-02-25'>Saturday, February 25, 1843.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Scammon moves rehearing in <name type='case' key='L01733'>Holdridge v. Bayley</name> (SC); motion denied on 27th.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1843-02-27'>Monday, February 27, 1843.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p>
            <name type='case' key='L02445'>Dorman et ux. v. Lane</name> (SC) is
            argued by Lincoln for plaintiff and Trumbull for defendant. Case was started by
            defendant in error, as administrator, in Gallatin Circuit Court for sale of real estate
            to satisfy debts against decedent's estate.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1843-02-28'>Tuesday, February 28, 1843.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln concludes argument in <name type='case' key='L02445'>Dorman et ux. v. Lane</name>.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>