<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1846-04-06'>Monday, April 6, 1846.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Herndon, administrator of James Bell, pays Lincoln $5 for obtaining decree
            to sell real estate.<bibl default='NO'>Sangamon Probate File.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1846-04-09'>Thursday, April 9, 1846.</date>
            <place key='40.5167, -89.4833' teiForm='name'>Tremont, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln attends opening day of Tazewell Circuit Court. On his motion,<name type='case'>William and Deborah Phillips v. Jonathan Merriam</name>,
            chancery, is continued.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1846-04-13'>Monday, April 13, 1846.</date>
            <place key='40.5167, -89.4833' teiForm='name'>Tremont, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> On Lincoln's motion, appeal case of <name type='case'>Herndon v. Enos and Verdin</name> is dismissed at cost of appellant. Plaintiff files
            demurrer to defendant's third plea in <name type='case'>Wellman v.
               Holland</name>. Court hears argument of counsel, sustains demurrer, and orders that
            plaintiff recover $909.51. Jones appears for plaintiff and Lincoln, Merriman, and Powell
            for defendant.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline> 
            <date value='1846-04-14'>Tuesday,
  April 14, 1846.</date> 
            <place key='40.5167, -89.4833' teiForm='name'>Tremont, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln's associate for defendants in 
  <name type='case'>Stevenson and Wardwell v. Garrett and
  wife</name>, H. O. Merriman, writes and files motion to arrest judgment.
  <bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1846-04-15'>Wednesday, April 15, 1846.</date>
            <place key='40.5167, -89.4833' teiForm='name'>Tremont, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p>
            <name type='case'>Stanford and Davis v. Hicks et al.</name> is continued
            on motion of complainant. Jones represents complainants and Lincoln defendants.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> [Lincoln's article describing trial of Trailor brothers for "murder" of
            Fisher, held in Springfield in June 1841, is published in Quincy Whig.]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1846-04-16'>Thursday, April 16, 1846.</date>
            <place key='40.7833, -89.3500' teiForm='name'>Metamora, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Woodford Circuit Court opens for two-day term. Lincoln and Fenn, attorneys
            for defendant in <name type='case'>Smith v. Strawn</name>, file demurrer
            to plaintiff's declaration. Court sustains demurrer with leave to amend declaration and
            plaintiff is ruled to plead in 30 days. Leave is given appellants in <name type='case'>Hall and Edgett v. Morley</name> to file new appeal bond and take
            depositions. Two other cases are continued.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1846-04-18'>Saturday, April 18, 1846.</date>
            <place key='40.5167, -89.4833' teiForm='name'>Tremont, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes to Andrew Johnston, enclosing poem inspired by his visit to
            Spencer County, Indiana, in fall of 1844. Sight of neighborhood where he was raised and
            where his mother and sister were buried "aroused feelings in me which were certainly
            poetry; though whether my expression of those feelings is poetry is quite another
               question."<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%3A397' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Andrew
                  Johnston</xref>, 18 April 1846, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:377-79.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1846-04-20'>Monday, April 20, 1846.</date>
            <place key='40.4833, -88.9833' teiForm='name'>Bloomington, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> McLean Circuit Court opens four-day term. Lincoln's attendance is proved by
            statement in his letter to James Berdan on April 26, 1846: "I thank you for the
            promptness with which you answered my letter written from Bloomington."<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%3A399' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to James
                  Berdan</xref>, 26 April 1846, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:380.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1846-04-21'>Tuesday, April 21, 1846.</date>
            <place key='40.4833, -88.9833' teiForm='name'>Bloomington, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> "In 1846 at the April term of the McLean Circuit Court, Lincoln represented
            Roswell Munsell, who kept bar in the Bloomington Hotel at Bloomington, Ill., in a suit
            against William H. Temple over the validity of his liquor license."<bibl default='NO'>William H. Townsend, <title>Lincoln and Liquor</title>
               (New York: Press of the Pioneers, 1935), 104.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1846-04-23'>Thursday, April 23, 1846.</date>
            <place key='40.4833, -88.9833' teiForm='name'>Bloomington, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> ["Sangamo Journal" reprints Lincoln's story of Fisher murder trial from
            Quincy "Whig." "Whig" said, "The following narrative has been handed us for publication
            by a member of the bar," probably Abraham Jonas.<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%3A396' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>The Trailor Murder
               Case</xref>, 15 April 1846, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:371-76.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1846-04-24'>Friday, April 24, 1846.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes to Isaac Williams of Tazewell County suggesting B. F. James
            as substitute delegate to Petersburg convention if Williams cannot attend.<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%3A398' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Isaac
                  Williams</xref>, 24 April 1846, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:379-80.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1846-04-26'>Sunday, April 26, 1846.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes to James Berdan, Jacksonville lawyer, with object of
            smoothing hard feelings that may exist between his followers and those of Hardin.<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%3A399' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to James
                  Berdan</xref>, 26 April 1846, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:380.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1846-04-27'>Monday, April 27, 1846.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Livingston Circuit Court meets for one day at Pontiac.]</p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline> 
            <date value='1846-04-29'>Wednesday, April 29, 1846.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln
  writes, and evidently mails to Pekin, bill of exceptions in
  <name type='case'>Stevenson and Wardwell v. Garrett</name> and
  wife, petition to enforce mechanics lien.<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1846-04-30'>Thursday, April 30, 1846.</date>
            <place key='40.1500, -88.9500' teiForm='name'>Clinton, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> DeWitt Circuit Court convenes for two-day term. Parties agree to dispense
            with jury in <name type='case'>A. Lincoln v. Spencer and William
            Turner</name>. Court hears case and awards plaintiff $213.50 and costs. Lincoln
            confesses that defendant in <name type='case'>Cobb v. Clifton</name> is
            indebted in sum of $319 and $1.06 damages. Lincoln appears for plaintiff, and on his
            motion, <name type='case'>McDowall v. Duncan et al.</name>, is
               stricken.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln, for defendant, writes and files plea in <name type='case'>Newcomb v. Mitchell</name>, signing "Conkling &amp; Lincoln."<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>