<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1845-09-01'>Monday, September 1, 1845.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [In Charleston, Lincoln's declaration and praecipe in <name type='case'>Eccles v. True et al.</name>, signed "Lincoln &amp; Dunbar," is
               filed.<bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress,
               Washington, DC.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1845-09-02'>Tuesday, September 2, 1845.</date>
            <place key='40.5167, -89.4833' teiForm='name'>Tremont, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln is appointed guardian <ital>ad litem</ital> in <name type='case'>Bailey v. Bailey et al.</name>, bill for relief.<bibl default='NO'>Judge's Docket.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1845-09-03'>Wednesday, September 3, 1845.</date>
            <place key='40.5167, -89.4833' teiForm='name'>Tremont, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Tazewell Circuit Court opens seven-day term. Defendant in <name type='case'>Dobbs v. Dobbs</name> enters motion to overrule order to pay
            complainant $50 to continue suit. After hearing argument, court sustains motion. Leonard
            and Lincoln appear for complainant and Briggs for defendant.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1845-09-04'>Thursday, September 4, 1845.</date>
            <place key='40.5167, -89.4833' teiForm='name'>Tremont, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> On motion of Lincoln, attorney for appellant, <name type='case'>Harris v. Dean</name> is dismissed at cost of appellant.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1845-09-05'>Friday, September 5, 1845.</date>
            <place key='40.5167, -89.4833' teiForm='name'>Tremont, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p>
            <name type='case'>Dobbs v. Dobbs</name> is argued before jury, which
            fails to agree. <name type='case'>Stuart v. Bailey</name> is dismissed
            for want of prosecution. Lincoln is attorney for plaintiff.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1845-09-06'>Saturday, September 6, 1845.</date>
            <place key='40.5167, -89.4833' teiForm='name'>Tremont, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Lincoln's trip around Eighth Judicial Circuit this fall gives him opportunity to
    obtain pledges of support in his campaign for Congress next summer.<bibl default='NO'>P. H. Thompson to John J. Hardin, 12 January 1846, John J. Hardin Papers,
     Chicago History Museum, Chicago, IL.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1845-09-09'>Tuesday, September 9, 1845.</date>
            <place key='40.5167, -89.4833' teiForm='name'>Tremont, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Defendant in divorce case of <name type='case'>Dobbs v.
               Dobbs</name> moves court to dissolve injunction granted on supplemental bill. Motion
            is denied and court appoints David Mark receiver of real estate. Leonard and Lincoln
            appear for complainant and Briggs for defendant.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln writes order of court in <name type='case'>Lamb
               &amp; Co. v. Hawley</name>.<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1845-09-10'>Wednesday, September 10, 1845.</date>
            <place key='40.5167, -89.4833' teiForm='name'>Tremont, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [<person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> sends hired man
            to Irwin's store with note. He returns $5 worth of merchandise to store, buys $1.28 in
            new merchandise, plus &#8542; yard white flannel (66&#162;), and pockets
            37&#162; for himself.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Irwin Ledger and Journal</title>.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1845-09-11'>Thursday,
  September 11, 1845.</date> 
            <place key='40.5167, -89.4833' teiForm='name'>Tremont,
  IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Woodford Circuit Court convenes at
  Metamora for three-day term.]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1845-09-13'>Saturday, September 13, 1845.</date>
            <place key='40.5167, -89.4833' teiForm='name'>Tremont, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Lincoln probably visits Hennepin and other towns in Marshall and Putnam
            County at this time. In letter to Williamson Durley of Hennepin from Springfield October
            3, 1845, he says: "When I saw you at home, it was agreed that I should write to you and
            your brother Madison. . . . I was glad to hear you say that you intend to attempt to
            bring about, at the next election in Putnam, a union of the whigs proper."<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%3A373' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Williamson
                  Durley</xref>, 3 October 1845, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:347-48.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1845-09-15'>Monday, September 15, 1845.</date>
            <place key='40.5167, -89.4833' teiForm='name'>Tremont, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [McLean County Circuit Court opens six-day session at Bloomington.] On or
            about this day, Lincoln signs, with 51 others, mostly lawyers and citizens of
            Bloomington, petition to Gov. Ford asking reprieve for person whose name court does not
            know, who is sentenced to serve one year for larceny by McLean Circuit Court at this
               session.<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%3A372' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Petition for Pardon of a
                  Person Unknown</xref>, [15?] September 1845, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:346-47.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1845-09-22'>Monday, September 22, 1845.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln draws $20 from auditor for Chief Justice William Wilson and $30 for
            William A. Denning as state's attorney of Third Circuit.<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln deposits $5, his half of fee from "Miller."<bibl default='NO'>Irwin Ledger.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> [Livingston County Circuit Court meets in Pontiac for one-day term.]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1845-09-23'>Tuesday, September 23, 1845.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln buys curry comb (25&#162;).<bibl default='NO'>Irwin Ledger.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1845-09-25'>Thursday, September 25, 1845.</date>
            <place key='40.1500, -88.9500' teiForm='name'>Clinton, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> DeWitt Circuit Court convenes for two-day term. Lincoln appears for
            plaintiffs <name type='case'>Watson and Lloyd, administrators v. Holsey
               et al.</name> Defendant defaults and court awards plaintiff $95, amount of note, and
            $25.94 damages. Lincoln appears for plaintiff in <name type='case'>McDowall v. Duncan et al.</name>, continued on his motion.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1845-09-27'>Saturday, September 27, 1845.</date>
            <place key='40.1500, -88.9500' teiForm='name'>Clinton, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Gibson William Harris stated in "My Recollections of Abraham Lincoln" that
            "in September, 1845, through the kindness of our then State Senator, Mr. Charles
            Constable, it was arranged I should enter the law office of Lincoln &amp;
               Herndon."<bibl default='NO'>Farm and Fireside, 1 December
            1904.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1845-09-29'>Monday, September 29, 1845.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln &amp; Herndon file praecipe and declaration in <name type='case'>Rockwell et al. v. Bradford</name> in U.S. Circuit Court.
            They seek to collect $669.76 on two notes and $500 damages.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> [Piatt Circuit Court convenes at Monticello.]</p>
      </div2>