<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1845-12-01'>Monday, December 1, 1845.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Alton and Springfield Railroad convention assembles in U.S. District Court.
            Judge Treat is elected president. Lincoln is present with 12 other Sangamon delegates.
            Morgan County has four delegates, headed by Hardin and Lamborn, and five have come from
            Madison County.<bibl default='NO'>Alton Telegraph, 20 December
            1845.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1845-12-02'>Tuesday, December 2, 1845.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> On motion of Lincoln &amp; Herndon, attorneys for plaintiff, <name type='case'>Rockwell et al. v. Bradford</name> is continued in U.S.
            Circuit Court.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Railroad convention hears report of committee appointed to call on Gov.
            Ford to ascertain status of Northern Cross Railroad. After discussion they adjourn until
               Thursday.<bibl default='NO'>Alton Telegraph, 20 December 1845.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1845-12-03'>Wednesday, December 3, 1845.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes and signs assignment of errors in <name type='case'>Rysinger and Nye v. Cheney (SC)</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='1845-12-04'>Thursday, December 4, 1845.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Logan reports to Railroad convention plan for concentrating efforts of
            Sangamon, Morgan, and Madison Counties for purchase of Northern Cross Railroad and
            construction of Alton and Springfield. Lincoln's name is not mentioned in proceedings,
            but he probably attends.<bibl default='NO'>Alton Telegraph, 20 December
               1845.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1845-12-05'>Friday,
  December 5, 1845.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield,
  IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Either at June or Dec. term of U.S.
  Court, Lincoln is associate of Grant Goodrich in three cases in which Grace
  Lawson (Lawrence) is defendant. Cases involve fraud and misrepresentation in
  sale of land. Butterfield, Collins, and Baker are attorneys for defendant.
  "Lincoln in closing the case" wrote Goodrich, "made the best jury argument I
  ever heard him make."<bibl default='NO'>Hertz,
  <title corresp='books_Hertz2'>Hidden Lincoln</title>,
  330.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1845-12-06'>Saturday, December 6, 1845.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> "To succeed, I must have 17 votes in convention," writes Lincoln to B. F.
            James. ". . . If you and other friends can secure Dr. Boal's entire senatorial district,
            that is, Tazewell 4, Woodford 1, and Marshall 1, it just covers the case. . . . In doing
            this, let nothing be said against Hardin. . . . Let the pith of the whole argument be
            `Turn about is fair play.' "<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%3A379' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Benjamin F.
                  James</xref>, 6 December 1845, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:351-52.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln writes and signs assignment of errors in <name type='case'>Murphy v. Summerville (SC)</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='1845-12-08'>Monday, December 8, 1845.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Supreme Court convenes, but lacks quorum and adjourns. Docket is not as
            large as usual.]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1845-12-09'>Tuesday, December 9, 1845.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Justice Caton arrives, but Supreme Court lacks quorum and adjourns.]
            Lincoln writes and signs assignment of error in <name type='case'>Fell v.
               Price and Edwards</name>, and <name type='case'>Simpson v. Ranlett
               (SC)</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='1845-12-10'>Wednesday, December 10, 1845.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln, attorney for appellees in <name type='case'>McCall
               v. Lesher et al. (SC)</name>, moves to dismiss appeal. <name type='case'>Griggs et al. v. Gear</name>, and <name type='case'>Weld v. Gear</name>, similar cases from Jo Daviess County, come on appeal and writ
            of error. Hardin, attorney for appellees, asks that appeal be dismissed for error in
            execution of appeal bond. Lincoln, for appellants, asks writ of certiorari.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1845-12-11'>Thursday, December 11, 1845.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Supreme Court orders defendants to join in error in <name type='case'>Ellis v. Locke</name>, and <name type='case'>Ross et
               al. v. Nesbit</name>. Lincoln appears for appellant in first and defendant in second.
            Plaintiff is ordered to assign errors and file abstracts in <name type='case'>Simpson v. Ranlett</name>. Lincoln and Dickey represent appellant and
            Peters appellee.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1845-12-13'>Saturday, December 13, 1845.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Chickering's motion for leave to file supplemental record is granted in
               <name type='case'>Griggs et al. v. Gear</name>. In <name type='case'>Weld v. Gear</name>, appellee is ordered to join in error by December
            29, 1845. Rule against defendant made July 8, 1842 in<name type='case'>People ex rel. Duncan v. Thorn</name> is dismissed for want of prosecution. Lincoln
            appears for appellant in first two cases and for defendant in latter.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln writes and files certificate of publication in <name type='case'>Wren v. Moss et al. (SC)</name>.<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
            <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> buys more clothing material
               ($8).<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Irwin Ledger and Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1845-12-15'>Monday, December 15, 1845.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln for appellees moves that appeal be dismissed in <name type='case'>McCall v. Lesher et al. (SC)</name>. After argument, motion is denied.
               <name type='case'>Regnier v. Cabot et al. (SC)</name> is argued before
            court by Robbins for appellant and Harris and Logan for appellees.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1845-12-16'>Tuesday,
  December 16, 1845.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield,
  IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> 
            <name type='case'>McCall
  v. Lesher et al.</name> is argued by Logan for appellant and Lincoln for
  appellees. <name type='case'>Donaldson v. Reynolds and
  Walker</name> is continued in U.S. Circuit Court. Lincoln represents
  defendants.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> 
            <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> buys
  1&#189; pounds cotton batting.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Irwin Ledger and Journal</title>.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1845-12-17'>Wednesday, December 17, 1845.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Argument in <name type='case'>McCall v. Lesher et al.</name>
            is continued by Lincoln and Logan and case submitted to court.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln writes assignment of errors, signing Logan &amp; Lincoln,
               in<name type='case'>Wilson, administrator v. Alexander
               (SC)</name>.<bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of
               Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
            <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> purchases three yards brown
            Holland, and a yard "Green Barage," each costing 75&#162;.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Irwin Ledger and Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1845-12-18'>Thursday, December 18, 1845.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln and Powell appear for plaintiff in <name type='case'>Wren v. Moss et al. (SC)</name>, and argue motion made for rule on defendants to
            join in error. Motion is resisted by Merriman. Court considers. Judgment of lower court
            is affirmed in <name type='case'>Regnier v. Cabot et al.</name> Justice
            Purple delivers court opinion.<bibl default='NO'>Record; 7 Ill.
            34.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1845-12-19'>Friday, December 19, 1845.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Motion argued by Lincoln and Powell yesterday in <name type='case'>Wren v. Moss et al.</name> that defendants be ruled to join in error,
            is allowed.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln writes and signs reply to assignment in errors in <name type='case'>Wright v. Bennett (SC)</name>, case on custody of illegitimate
               child.<bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress,
               Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1845-12-20'>Saturday, December 20, 1845.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p>
            <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> spends $5.43 on clothing
            material, charging to account, and buys $6.80 groceries.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Irwin Ledger and Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1845-12-22'>Monday, December 22, 1845.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p>
            <name type='case'>Cunningham v. Fithian et al. (SC)</name>, appeal from
            Vermilion, is argued by J. B. Thomas and J. J. Brown for appellant and Lincoln and Logan
            for appellees.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
            <name type='case'>Magone v. Little et al. (SC)</name>, error from Jo
            Daviess, was submitted early in term by Campbell and Lincoln, for plaintiff in error.
            Opinion is given by Justice Scates, reversing lower court.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Sangamo Journal</title>, 15 January 1846.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1845-12-23'>Tuesday, December 23, 1845.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln continues argument in <name type='case'>Cunningham
               v. Fithian et al.</name>
            <bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1845-12-24'>Wednesday, December 24, 1845.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Argument in <name type='case'>Cunningham v. Fithian et
            al.</name> is continued by J. J. Brown for appellant.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
            <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> takes home remnant linen
            ($1.31) and 6&#162; worth of buttons.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Irwin Ledger and Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1845-12-26'>Friday, December 26, 1845.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p>
            <name type='case'>Eldridge v. Rowe (SC)</name> is argued by Peters for
            appellant and Lincoln for appellee. Logan for appellee in <name type='case'>Ellis v. Locke (SC)</name> moves default (December 17, 1845) be set
            aside and order of reversal for nonjoinder in error be vacated and case dismissed. J. J.
            Brown concludes argument in <name type='case'>Cunningham v. Fithian et
               al.</name>
            <bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1845-12-27'>Saturday, December 27, 1845.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p>
            <name type='case'>Hall v. Irwin et al. (SC)</name>, is argued by Minshall
            for plaintiff and Lincoln and Thomas for defendants.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1845-12-29'>Monday,
  December 29, 1845.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield,
  IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln appears alone for appellant in 
  <name type='case'>Ellis v. Locke (SC)</name>; in three other
  cases he is associated with McConnel, Trumbull, and Powell.
  <bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1845-12-30'>Tuesday, December 30, 1845.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes to Samuel D. Marshall about <name type='case'>Dorman et ux. v. Lane</name> which he handled in Supreme Court for Marshall. He
            outlines his next procedure and concludes, "Dont speak of this, lest they hear it, and
            take the alarm."<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%3A380' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Samuel D.
                  Marshall</xref>, 30 December 1845, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:352.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1845-12-31'>Wednesday, December 31, 1845.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Defendant in <name type='case'>Chauncey v. Jackson</name> is
            ordered by Supreme Court to join in error by January 2, 1845. Butterfield appears for
            plaintiff and Lincoln for defendant.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln pays into his bank account $11.99 cash, and $50 note made to him by
            Nathaniel Hay.<bibl default='NO'>Irwin Ledger.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>