<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1846-10-01'>Thursday, October 1, 1846.</date>
            <place key='40.1500, -88.9500' teiForm='name'>Clinton, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> DeWitt Circuit Court convenes for two-day term. In <name type='case'>Bushnell v. Knapp</name>, bill is filed showing original claimant has
            left state.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1846-10-02'>Friday, October 2, 1846.</date>
            <place key='40.1500, -88.9500' teiForm='name'>Clinton, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes and files bill in <name type='case'>Bushnell
               et al. v. Knapp et al.</name> He writes and files, for defendant, pleas in<name type='case'>Slatten v. Branson</name>.<bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC;
               Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1846-10-05'>Monday, October 5, 1846.</date>
            <place key='40.1500, -88.9500' teiForm='name'>Clinton, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Piatt Circuit Court convenes at Monticello.]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1846-10-07'>Wednesday, October 7, 1846.</date>
            <place key='40.1500, -88.9500' teiForm='name'>Clinton, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Champaign Circuit Court convenes at Urbana for two days.]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1846-10-12'>Monday, October 12, 1846.</date>
            <place key='40.1167, -87.6167' teiForm='name'>Danville, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes and signs plea for summons in <name type='case'>Fithian v. Cunningham</name>. Case continued.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1846-10-14'>Wednesday, October 14, 1846.</date>
            <place key='39.4833, -88.1667' teiForm='name'>Charleston, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Coles Circuit Court convenes. Lincoln writes to William Brown October 22,
            1846: "I have just returned from Coles."<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%3A407' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to William
                  Brown</xref>, 22 October 1846, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:389.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> He represents defendant in <name type='case'>People v.
               Lester</name>.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1846-10-17'>Saturday, October 17, 1846.</date>
            <place key='39.4833, -88.1667' teiForm='name'>Charleston, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln appears for plaintiff in <name type='case'>Pearson
               and Anderson v. Monroe</name>.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1846-10-21'>Wednesday, October 21, 1846.</date>
            <place key='39.4833, -88.1667' teiForm='name'>Charleston, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln probably starts for Springfield.</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1846-10-22'>Thursday, October 22, 1846.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes to Speed suggesting they renew their correspondence. "Being
            elected to Congress . . . has not pleased me as much as I expected." He announces birth
            of Edward Baker Lincoln and describes Robert's characteristics. He also writes to
            William Brown.<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%3A408' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Joshua F.
                  Speed</xref>, 22 October 1846, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:389-91; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln1;node=lincoln1%3A407' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to William
                  Brown</xref>, 22 October 1846, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:389.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1846-10-26'>Monday, October 26, 1846.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Moultrie Circuit Court convenes at Sullivan.]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1846-10-28'>Wednesday, October 28, 1846.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln's account is debited $1.66 for clothing materials.<bibl default='NO'>Irwin Ledger.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1846-10-29'>Thursday,
  October 29, 1846.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield,
  IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Macon Circuit Court convenes for
  three-day term at Decatur.]</p>
      </div2>