<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1843-04-01'>Saturday, April 1, 1843.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Menard County Whig convention at Petersburg instructs its two delegates,
            Martin S. Morris and George U. Miles, to vote first for Lincoln and second for Hardin at
            district convention.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Sangamo Journal</title>, 13 April 1843.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1843-04-05'>Wednesday, April 5, 1843.</date>
            <place key='40.5167, -89.4833' teiForm='name'>Tremont, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> In Tazewell Circuit Court, <name type='case' key='L01068'>May v. Greene &amp; Loose</name> is continued. Logan &amp; Lincoln appear
            for W. L. May, former Whig leader in Springfield, now operating ferry at Peoria. Greene
            is brother of William G. Greene, clerk with Lincoln in Offutt store at New Salem. Suit
            involves ownership of strip of land along river patented by defendants and claimed by
            May as included in his prior patent.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1843-04-07'>Friday, April 7, 1843.</date>
            <place key='40.5167, -89.4833' teiForm='name'>Tremont, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes, and mails to Pekin, bill for $1,610 for John H. Harris, re
            pork packing business. Bill is filed in Probate Court in estate papers of Harlan
               Hatch.<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1843-04-10'>Monday, April 10, 1843.</date>
            <place key='40.5167, -89.4833' teiForm='name'>Tremont, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes and files defendant's affidavit in <name type='case' key='L01165'>Scott v. Davenport</name>.<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1843-04-12'>Wednesday, April 12, 1843.</date>
            <place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place> to <place key='39.8833, -90.6500' teiForm='name'>Versailles,
         IL</place>.</dateline>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1843-04-13'>Thursday, April 13, 1843.</date>
            <place key='39.8833, -90.6500' teiForm='name'>Versailles, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> On opening day of two-day term of Woodford Circuit Court, Lincoln appears for
    defendant and Gridley for plaintiff in <name type='case' key='L01743'>Boggs v.
     Rathbone</name>. Court orders judgment of court below affirmed for $20. <bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> At evening Whig meeting, delegate to district convention is instructed to vote
    for Hardin for Congress.<bibl default='NO'>Hardin to James Berdan, 15 April 1843,
     John J. Hardin Papers, Chicago History Museum, Chicago, IL.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1843-04-14'>Friday, April 14, 1843.</date>
            <place key='39.8833, -90.6500' teiForm='name'>Versailles, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p>
            <name type='case'>Tucker v. Williams</name> is dismissed by agreement.
            Lincoln appears for defendant. He draws up affidavit of defendant in <name type='case'>Wilkins v. Tucker</name>. He writes Martin S. Morris that he has heard
            E. D. Baker has been trying to get Menard delegates, instructed for Lincoln, to vote for
               him.<bibl default='NO'>Record; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln1;node=lincoln1%3A329' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Martin S.
                  Morris</xref>, 14 April 1843, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:321-22.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1843-04-15'>Saturday, April 15, 1843.</date>
            <place key='39.8833, -90.6500' teiForm='name'>Versailles, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> James C. Conkling, in letter to his wife from Bloomington on 18th, says he
            reached Bloomington Monday afternoon, April 17, 1843 and "found Lincoln desperately
            homesick and turning his head frequently towards the south." Evidently he remains away
            from Springfield over week end.<bibl default='NO'>ISLA&#8212;Conkling
               Mss.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1843-04-16'>Sunday, April 16, 1843.</date>
            <place key='39.8833, -90.6500' teiForm='name'>Versailles, IL</place> and <place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place> to
               <place key='40.4833, -88.9833' teiForm='name'>Bloomington, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Trip to Bloomington from Versailles, approximately 40 miles, is probably
            made Sunday.]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1843-04-17'>Monday,
  April 17, 1843.</date> 
            <place key='40.4833, -88.9833' teiForm='name'>Bloomington,
  IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln attends opening of six-day term
  of McLean Court. [Springfield elects Whig mayor and aldermen pledged to pay
  third installment of $16,666.66 due state on $50,000 promised in 1837 when
  capital was moved to Springfield.<bibl default='NO'>Alton
  Telegraph, 22 April 1843.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1843-04-18'>Tuesday, April 18, 1843.</date>
            <place key='40.4833, -88.9833' teiForm='name'>Bloomington, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> In <name type='case' key='L01165'>Scott v. Davenport</name>,
            Lincoln writes oath taken by three arbitrators, and writes affidavit of Bailey H.
            Coffey, justice of peace, that he has administered oath.<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1843-04-21'>Friday, April 21, 1843.</date>
            <place key='40.4833, -88.9833' teiForm='name'>Bloomington, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> In <name type='case' key='L01640'>Harkness et al. v.
            Davis</name>, court gives leave to file depositions, and case is continued.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1843-04-24'>Monday, April 24, 1843.</date>
            <place key='40.4833, -88.9833' teiForm='name'>Bloomington, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Livingston County Circuit Court holds one-day session.]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1843-04-27'>Thursday, April 27, 1843.</date>
            <place key='40.1500, -88.9500' teiForm='name'>Clinton, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> DeWitt Circuit Court opens two-day session. On motion of plaintiff, scire
            facias is awarded and case continued in <name type='case' key='L00506'>Lincoln v. Turner &amp; Turner</name>.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1843-04-28'>Friday, April 28, 1843.</date>
            <place key='40.1500, -88.9500' teiForm='name'>Clinton, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> On motion of Lincoln, complainant's attorney, <name type='case' key='L00586'>Peter v. Martin et al.</name> is continued.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>