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         <dateline>
            <date value='1846-09-06'>Sunday, September 6, 1846.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln sends Andrew Johnston second canto of poem inspired by his 1844
            campaign trip to his old home in Indiana. Poem is about an old schoolmate, Mathew
            Gentry, who became insane at 19. He encloses another poem, of 22 quatrains, "The Bear
               Hunt."<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%3A405' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Andrew
                  Johnston</xref>, 6 September 1846, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:384-86; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln1;node=lincoln1%3A406' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>The Bear Hunt</xref>, [6
               September 1846?], <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>,
               1:386-89.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline> 
            <date value='1846-09-07'>Monday,
  September 7, 1846.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield,
  IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Secretary of state, auditor, and
  treasurer, in presence of governor, canvass votes given for representatives in
  seven congressional districts August 3, 1846. They declare Lincoln elected and
  issue certificate of election.]</p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1846-09-09'>Wednesday, September 9, 1846.</date>
            <place key='40.5167, -89.4833' teiForm='name'>Tremont, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Fall term of Tazewell Circuit Court begins. Judge Treat appoints David B.
            Campbell to serve as prosecuting attorney.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1846-09-10'>Thursday, September 10, 1846.</date>
            <place key='40.5167, -89.4833' teiForm='name'>Tremont, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> In <name type='case'>William and Deborah Phillips v.
               Jonathan Merriam</name>, court denies defendant's motion that plaintiff file bond for
            costs. Lincolnis attorney for plaintiff.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln writes court decree in <name type='case'>Doolittle
               and Lenhart v. Jessup and Jessup</name>, chancery.<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1846-09-11'>Friday, September 11, 1846.</date>
            <place key='40.5167, -89.4833' teiForm='name'>Tremont, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln appears as witness (guardian of Emily B. Bailey) in <name type='case'>Dasenbury v. Bailey et al.</name> Court finds for
               plaintiff.<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1846-09-12'>Saturday, September 12, 1846.</date>
            <place key='40.5167, -89.4833' teiForm='name'>Tremont, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Defendant files demurrer to complainants' bill in <name type='case'>Phillips et al. v. Merriam</name>. Court hears argument and overrules
            demurrer. On Lincoln's motion, complainant is granted leave to amend bill, defendant to
            answer before December 1, 1846.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln writes part of decree in <name type='case'>Keen v.
               Keen</name>.<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1846-09-14'>Monday, September 14, 1846.</date>
            <place key='40.5167, -89.4833' teiForm='name'>Tremont, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p>
            <name type='case'>Wells v. Clark</name> and <name type='case'>Stanford and Davis v. Hicks et al.</name> are continued. Lincoln gives
            receipt for $5 to Samuel Clark, fee for services "done at this time" in <name type='case'>Wells v. Clark</name>. Lincoln writes answer of Daniel
            Finn on defendants' answer in <name type='case'>Caldwell v. Carlisle et
               al.</name>, chancery.<bibl default='NO'>Record; Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1846-09-15'>Tuesday, September 15, 1846.</date>
            <place key='40.5167, -89.4833' teiForm='name'>Tremont, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Agreement to sell real estate is made in <name type='case'>R. H. and Thomas Snell v. John S. Snell et al.</name>, heirs of Thomas Snell. G. F.
            Saltonstall is to be paid $1,770 on mortgage held by him from plaintiffs, remainder of
            proceeds to be held subject to order of court. Jones and James are attorneys for
            complainant and Lincoln for defendant.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln writes order and decree of court in <name type='case'>Richard and Thomas Snell v. Woolston and Snell</name>.<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1846-09-17'>Thursday, September 17, 1846.</date>
            <place key='40.7833, -89.3500' teiForm='name'>Metamora, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Woodford Circuit Court convenes for three-day session. [Sangamon County
            Temperance Union lists dates of meeting of 27 Societies in Sangamon County. Lincoln is
            speaker at meetings in Sangamon County in 1846 and 1847.]</p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1846-09-18'>Friday, September 18, 1846.</date>
            <place key='40.7833, -89.3500' teiForm='name'>Metamora, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln loses appeal case of <name type='case'>Platt v.
               Sowards</name> when jury awards property to appellant. He also loses appeal case of
               <name type='case'>Hall and Edgett v. Morley</name>. With Fenn he wins
               <name type='case'>Smith v. Strawn</name> when plaintiff submits to
            nonsuit. In <name type='case'>Tabor v. Higginbotham</name>, ejectment
            suit, court awards property to plaintiff, but later, on Lincoln's motion, grants
            defendant new trial.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline> 
            <date value='1846-09-21'>Monday,
  September 21, 1846.</date> 
            <place key='40.4833, -88.9833' teiForm='name'>Bloomington,
  IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> McLean Circuit Court convenes for
  three-day term.</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1846-09-23'>Wednesday, September 23, 1846.</date>
            <place key='40.4833, -88.9833' teiForm='name'>Bloomington, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes pleas, signing for Davis and Lincoln, in <name type='case'>People v. Barnard</name>. He appears with Davis in <name type='case'>Duffy v. Ward</name>. Duffy gives note for $20 each to his attorneys
            for services. Case continued.<bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik Collection,
               Library of Congress, Washington, DC; Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1846-09-26'>Saturday, September 26, 1846.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln draws from auditor warrant for $280 for W. P. Willard for conveying
            three convicts from Jo Daviess County to Alton penitentiary.<bibl default='NO'>Warrant Register, Auditor's Office.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1846-09-28'>Monday, September 28, 1846.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Livingston Circuit Court convenes for two-day term at Pontiac.]</p>
      </div2>