<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1844-04-01'>Monday, April 1, 1844.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Court orders complainant's bill dismissed in <name type='case'>Todd v. Ware</name>, and defendant is to have costs expended. In <name type='case'>Stephen T. Logan v. Carter</name>, Logan gets judgment for
            $373.50. If judgment is not satisfied in 60 days, master-in-chancery is to sell
            property. <name type='case'>Robert Irwin v. Joshua F. Speed et
            al.</name>, partition suit, in which Logan &amp; Lincoln appear for complainant, is
            decided in their favor.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1844-04-02'>Tuesday, April 2, 1844.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Claim of Logan &amp; Lincoln for $12.50 against estate of Barton Moore
            for drawing up petition to sell real estate and writing deed is paid by Eli C.
               Blankenship.<bibl default='NO'>Probate Court Files.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1844-04-03'>Wednesday, April 3, 1844.</date> 
            <place key='40.5167, -89.4833' teiForm='name'>Tremont,
  IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Tazewell Circuit Court convenes. David
  Davis, Bloomington attorney who travelled Eighth Circuit in spring of 1844,
  wrote: "Politics rage now hereabouts. . . . The first day of every court is
  occupied with political speaking, usually by an Elector on each side of
  politics, each person generally taking some three or four hours. . . . Lincoln
  is the best stump speaker in the State."<bibl default='NO'>David
  Davis Papers, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, Springfield,
  IL.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1844-04-04'>Thursday, April 4, 1844.</date>
            <place key='40.5167, -89.4833' teiForm='name'>Tremont, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p>
            <name type='case'>Cromwell and McNaughton v. Hewitt and Davenport</name>
            is continued with alias summons against Davenport to county of Woodford. Leonard appears
            for plaintiff and Lincoln for defendant. Defendants default in <name type='case'>May v. Greene and Loose</name> and court declares patent issued to
            them null and void. Logan &amp; Lincoln appear for plaintiff.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1844-04-06'>Saturday, April 6, 1844.</date>
            <place key='40.5167, -89.4833' teiForm='name'>Tremont, IL</place> and <place key='40.6833, -89.5833' teiForm='name'>Peoria, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln leaves Circuit Court in afternoon, arriving in Peoria at sundown.
            Notice is given of his speech to Clay Club at court house at 7:30. In spite of severe
            rain, room is half filled to hear his two-hour address.<bibl default='NO'>Peoria Register, 19 April 1844.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> [<person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> draws $46.50 in
            housekeeping money, evidently mainly for house furnishings.<bibl default='NO'>Irwin Ledger.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1844-04-08'>Monday, April 8, 1844.</date>
            <place key='40.5167, -89.4833' teiForm='name'>Tremont, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes answer in <name type='case'>Moore v.
            Davis</name>; he writes and files Davis' affidavit.<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln, Baker, and Calhoun make two speeches each in Tazewell County
            before they move on to Woodford Circuit Court at Hanover.<bibl default='NO'>Register, 19 April 1844.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1844-04-10'>Wednesday, April 10, 1844.</date>
            <place key='40.5167, -89.4833' teiForm='name'>Tremont, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Order of court in <name type='case'>Thorp v.
            Doolittle</name>, written by Lincoln, is filed in Tremont.<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1844-04-11'>Thursday, April 11, 1844.</date>
            <place key='42.2500, -90.2667' teiForm='name'>Hanover, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Woodford Circuit Court opens two-day term. <name type='case'>Arnold and Blair v. Richardson</name> is dismissed by agreement at cost of Arnold.
            Jury finds for defendant in <name type='case'>Robinson v. Cassel</name>.
            Lincoln appears for plaintiff in first case and defendant in second. In <name type='case'>Boggs v. Overton</name>, trespass, Davis and Colton appear
            for plaintiff and Lincoln for defendant.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> He writes and files pleas for Overton, rejoinder, and affidavit.<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1844-04-12'>Friday, April 12, 1844.</date>
            <place key='42.2500, -90.2667' teiForm='name'>Hanover, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln wins <name type='case'>Boggs v. Overton</name> when
            jury finds for defendant. He appears for defendants in <name type='case'>Pillsbury and Alexander v. Baker and Sunderland</name>. Case is continued at cost of
               defendants.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1844-04-13'>Saturday, April 13, 1844.</date>
            <place key='40.6833, -89.5833' teiForm='name'>Peoria, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> In broadside issued in Peoria April 9, 1844, Democrats announce that John
            Calhoun is sorry he was not present to reply to Lincoln's speech April 6, 1844. Lincoln
            on receiving copy of broadside resolves to reply to Calhoun's speech this evening at
            court house. Learning that Lincoln is present, Calhoun speaks until 11:30. Whigs call
            for Lincoln and he replies.<bibl default='NO'>Peoria Register, 19 April
               1844.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1844-04-14'>Sunday, April 14, 1844.</date>
            <place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place> to <place key='40.4833, -88.9833' teiForm='name'>Bloomington,
         IL</place>?</dateline>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1844-04-15'>Monday,
  April 15, 1844.</date> 
            <place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place> to 
  <place key='40.4833, -88.9833' teiForm='name'>Bloomington, IL</place>?</dateline>
         <p>
  [McLean County Circuit Court opens three-day term. Lincoln's account is charged
  $5.25 for merchandise.<bibl default='NO'>Irwin
  Ledger.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1844-04-16'>Tuesday, April 16, 1844.</date>
            <place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place> to <place key='40.4833, -88.9833' teiForm='name'>Bloomington, IL</place>?</dateline>
         <p> [Lincoln's account is charged $3.75 "for balance on lamps." Mrs. Lincoln is
            buying furnishings for new home.<bibl default='NO'>Irwin
         Ledger.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1844-04-22'>Monday, April 22, 1844.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p>Logan &amp; Lincoln, representing plaintiffs in James Fassett &amp; Co. v.
    Blackwell, file summons against defendant in U.S. District Court. They ask $5,000 damages for
    their clients. Lincoln signs for Logan &amp; Lincoln in judgment docket, indicating that
    judgment of $341 in <name type='case'>Lane and Webb v. Edwards</name> is paid in
    full. ["Lincoln and Calhoun have returned from Tazewell. Our people are in the best spirits
    there. So far as we learnt, Lincoln never left Calhoun on any one occasion, that he did not make
    him hang down his under lip."<bibl default='NO'>Record. S. Francis to J. J.
     Hardin, John J. Hardin Papers, Chicago History Museum, Chicago, IL.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1844-04-23'>Tuesday, April 23, 1844.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln &amp; Logan and wives convey lot on Adams Street between Fourth
            and Fifth Streets to Charles Dresser for $300. This is part payment on Lincoln's home at
            Eighth and Jackson.<bibl default='NO'>ISLA&#8212;Papers, 1925,
            34.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1844-04-24'>Wednesday, April 24, 1844.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes Rowland, Smith &amp; Co. concerning collections from
            Francis, Allen &amp; Stone. Refusing to handle their real estate business, he
            recommends "Isaac S. Britton, a trust-worthy man, &amp; one whom the Lord made on
            purpose for such bussiness."<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%3A354' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Rowland,
                  Smith &amp; Company</xref>, 24 April 1844, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:335.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1844-04-25'>Thursday, April 25, 1844.</date>
            <place key='40.1500, -88.9500' teiForm='name'>Clinton, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Judge Treat opens two-day session of DeWitt Circuit Court. Lincoln's suit
            to collect on note for $200 given him in defending Spencer Turner for murder in 1840 is
            continued by consent. On Lincoln's motion, <name type='case'>McDowall v.
               Duncan et al.</name> is continued with leave to commissioners to execute order made
            September 29, 1843. In <name type='case'>Peters v. Martin</name>, for
            complainant, Lincoln moves continuance with leave for commissioner to execute prior
               decree.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1844-04-26'>Friday, April 26, 1844.</date>
            <place key='40.1500, -88.9500' teiForm='name'>Clinton, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [<person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> is dressing up
            yard as well as house. Lincoln's account is charged 50&#162; for "balance on
            account" and $1 for spade.<bibl default='NO'>Irwin Ledger.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1844-04-28'>Sunday, April 28, 1844.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> On back of bill for divorce, Lincoln pens note to H. M. Vandeveer, clerk of
            Christian Circuit Court. Complainant, Andrew Jackson Wilson, charges his wife with
            adultery, man named Taylor named corespondent. Lincoln asks that "Taylor's christian
            name" be filled in, bill filed, and subpoena issued.<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%3A355' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Horatio M.
                  Vandeveer</xref>, 28 April 1844, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:336.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1844-04-29'>Monday, April 29, 1844.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Champaign Circuit Court convenes for two-day term at Urbana.]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1844-04-30'>Tuesday, April 30, 1844.</date>
            <place key='40.1000, -88.2000' teiForm='name'>Urbana, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln appears for complainant and Fell for defendant in <name type='case'>State Bank v. Mitchell et al.</name> After argument, report and sale
            of property are disapproved. Commissioners are ordered to pay back to William P. Withers
            purchase money and execute earlier decree. Withers presents his bill of exceptions, and
            case is continued.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>