<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1843-05-01'>Monday, May 1, 1843.</date>
            <place key='40.5667, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Pekin, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Whig convention of seventh congressional district meets. Lincoln, one of
            eight delegates from Sangamon, takes active part. As delegation chairman, he withdraws
            E. D. Baker's name as candidate when it appears certain Hardin is to be nominee. Lincoln
            moves that delegates, as individuals, favor Baker as candidate for Congress in
               1844.<bibl default='NO'>Lacon Illinois Gazette, 6 May 1843.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> He meets Dr. Robert Boal of Lacon at convention.<bibl default='NO'>IHi&#8212;Trans., 1904, 378-83.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1843-05-02'>Tuesday, May 2, 1843.</date>
            <place key='40.5667, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Pekin, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Champaign County Circuit Court met yesterday, and closes its spring term
            today at Urbana.]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1843-05-04'>Thursday, May 4, 1843.</date>
            <place key='40.5667, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Pekin, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Piatt Circuit Court convenes at Monticello.]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1843-05-05'>Friday, May 5, 1843.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> In U.S. Circuit Court, Logan &amp; Lincoln, representing plaintiff in
               <name type='case' key='L02163'>Larkin v. Doyle</name>, file their
            declaration and ask summons.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1843-05-08'>Monday, May 8, 1843.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln buys $2 in merchandise.<bibl default='NO'>Irwin
               Ledger.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> [Macon County Circuit Court holds one-day session at Decatur.]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform' type='Revised'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1843-05-11'>Thursday,
  May 11, 1843.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes to John J. Hardin, the Whig Party's nominee for
  Illinois's 7th Congressional District. Hardin, of Jacksonville, won the
  nomination over Lincoln's friend Edward D. Baker. Lincoln assures Hardin that
  Sangamon County's Whigs back Hardin's candidacy. As proof, Lincoln refers to a
  "proposal" that he submitted to a Springfield newspaper. It reads, "the
  majority of votes in SANGAMON COUNTY for Hardin shall DOUBLE the number of his
  majority in MORGAN COUNTY. The losing County shall give a free BARBACUE to the
  whigs of the other county&#8212;the said Barbacue to be provided at some place
  most convenient for the accomodation of the whigs of the two Counties. Whigs of
  Morgan, will you go it?"<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%3A332' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to John J.
  Hardin</xref>, 11 May 1843, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:322-23; <title>Sangamo Journal</title>
  (Springfield, IL), 11 May 1843, 2:2, 2:5.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> [Moultrie
  Circuit Court convenes at Sullivan.]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1843-05-13'>Saturday, May 13, 1843.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes bill in chancery in <name type='case' key='L04514'>Runyon v. Dresser</name>, asking real estate conveyance.<bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress, Washington,
               DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1843-05-15'>Monday,
  May 15, 1843.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Coles County Circuit Court convenes, and Shelby Circuit Court
  opens for four-day term.]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1843-05-16'>Tuesday, May 16, 1843.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln pays for suit. Five yards of material cost $32.50; "trimmings" come
            to $3.87. He pays Benjamin R. Biddle, tailor, $9. Total cost: $45.37. He also buys
            $48.87 worth of merchandise.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Irwin Ledger and Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1843-05-18'>Thursday, May 18, 1843.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> In gossipy letter to Speed, Lincoln assures him that all will be harmony
            among Whigs in electing Hardin to Congress. He invites Speed to come to Springfield. A
            room at Globe Tavern, where Lincolns are residing, will be arranged for him.<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%3A333' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Joshua F.
                  Speed</xref>, 18 May 1843, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:323-25.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1843-05-19'>Friday, May 19, 1843.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln pays $1.50 for "Leghorn" (straw) hat.<bibl default='NO'>Irwin Ledger.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1843-05-20'>Saturday, May 20, 1843.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Col. R. M. Johnson, Vice-President 1837-1841, arrives in Springfield
            Friday evening. Following parade, reception is held in Representatives Hall. Democratic
            Association presents hickory cane. On Sunday he attends Methodist church in morning and
            Baptist church in afternoon.<bibl default='NO'>Register, 26 May 1843;
                  IHi&#8212;<title>Journal</title>, XIII, 192-209.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1843-05-22'>Monday, May 22, 1843.</date>
            <place key='39.5333, -89.2833' teiForm='name'>Taylorville, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Logan &amp; Lincoln have three cases dismissed and one continued at
            one-day term of Christian Circuit Court. Rountree and Lincoln have one case continued.
            In <name type='case' key='L01577'>People v. Langley et al.</name>, two
            indictments for riot, state's attorney drops one and gets jury verdict in other. Court
            fines Langley $20 and each of three other defendants $5. Rountree and Lincoln appear for
               defendants.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1843-05-24'>Wednesday, May 24, 1843.</date>
            <place key='39.5333, -89.2833' teiForm='name'>Taylorville, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [John H. Murphy, attorney in <name type='case' key='L01453'>Strong et al. v. Thomas et al.</name>, swears affidavit of nonresidence of Marshall
            Lander, one of defendants, before T. R. Webber, clerk of Champaign County Circuit Court
            in Urbana. Lincoln wrote affidavit for Murphy, and evidently mailed it.<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1843-05-25'>Thursday, May 25, 1843.</date>
            <place key='39.5333, -89.2833' teiForm='name'>Taylorville, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Logan Circuit Court convenes.]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1843-05-29'>Monday, May 29, 1843.</date>
            <place key='39.5333, -89.2833' teiForm='name'>Taylorville, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln pays $2 for "Sattin Stock" (neckwear).<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Irwin Ledger and Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1843-05-31'>Wednesday, May 31, 1843.</date>
            <place key='39.5333, -89.2833' teiForm='name'>Taylorville, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln buys toothbrush (25&#162;) and third-yard of serge
            (50&#162;) for his tailor Biddle, who is evidently making alterations.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Irwin Ledger and Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>