February 14, 1843

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            <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>
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