<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1847-10-01'>Friday, October 1, 1847.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> "If you will let Mr. E. G. Johns have any amount of oil not exceeding ten
            dollars in value," writes Lincoln to Messrs. Converse &amp; Priest, "I will pay you
            the money for it in three months from date."<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%3A419' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Converse
                  &amp; Priest</xref>, 1 October 1847, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:405.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> [Johns was Springfield house painter.]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1847-10-02'>Saturday, October 2, 1847.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln deposits $28.74 cash.<bibl default='NO'>Irwin
               Ledger.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1847-10-04'>Monday, October 4, 1847.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Vermilion Circuit Court commences fall term.]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1847-10-08'>Friday, October 8, 1847.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Bill in <name type='case'>Hannah Miller v. Mary E. and
               Nancy A. Miller</name>, written by Lincoln and signed "Lincoln and Herndon for
            complt." is filed in Menard Circuit Court, Petersburg.<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1847-10-11'>Monday,
  October 11, 1847.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield,
  IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Edgar Circuit Court begins its
  session.]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1847-10-14'>Thursday, October 14, 1847.</date>
            <place key='39.4833, -88.1667' teiForm='name'>Charleston, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln represents defendant in <name type='case'>Linder v.
               Fleenor</name> in Coles Circuit Court. Jury finds defendant guilty of slander and
            assess plaintiff's damages at $1,000. He remits $950 of this amount.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Pleas, joinders, and replication in Lincoln's handwriting are in
            Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC. Town is tense over
            impending slave trial.</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1847-10-15'>Friday, October 15, 1847.</date>
            <place key='39.4833, -88.1667' teiForm='name'>Charleston, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Anthony Bryant and family, having run away from their Kentucky master,
            Robert Matson, were placed in county jail. Gideon Ashmore and Hiram Rutherford
            petitioned for writ of habeas corpus. Justice Wilson of Supreme Court accompanies Judge
            Treat to Charleston to hear case. Rutherford tries to retain Lincoln but he has already
            agreed to appear for Matson.</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1847-10-16'>Saturday, October 16, 1847.</date>
            <place key='39.4833, -88.1667' teiForm='name'>Charleston, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Ficklin and Constable appear before Wilson and Treat in behalf of
            petitioners, with Linder and Lincoln representing Matson. Court orders slaves discharged
            from sheriff's custody and from "all servitude whatever from henceforth and forever." At
            night, Matson, disgruntled at verdict, leaves state without paying his attorneys their
               fee.<bibl default='NO'>Beveridge, <title corresp='Beveridge'>Abraham Lincoln</title>, 1:392-97; Record; Charleston (Ill.)
               Globe, 27 October 1847; Illinois Law Review, I, 366.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln, for complainant, writes and signs declaration, pleas, and
            instructions for jury in <name type='case'>Watson v. Gill</name>. Jury
            finds defendant guilty and awards Lincoln's client $215.<bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1847-10-17'>Sunday, October 17, 1847.</date>
            <place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place> to <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Journey probably continues next day.]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1847-10-19'>Tuesday, October 19, 1847.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> "The Governor is not here," writes Lincoln to Morris &amp; Brown,
            Chicago attorneys, "and will not be, it is thought, for about ten days. Unfortunately
            for my attending to the business you sent, I start for Washington, by way of Kentucky,
            on next monday." He will see that matter is presented to governor, however.<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%3A420' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Buckner S.
                  Morris and John J. Brown</xref>, 19 October 1847, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:405-6.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1847-10-21'>Thursday, October 21, 1847.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Having received another letter from Morris &amp; Brown, Lincoln
            consults Logan. "If the Governor shall arrive before I leave, Logan &amp; I will
            both attend to the matter," he assures them, "and<uLine>he</uLine> will
            attend to it if he does not come till after I leave; all upon the condition that the
            Governor shall not have acted upon the matter, <uLine>before</uLine> his
            arrival here. . . . The case is a clear one on our side; but whether the Gov. will view
            it so is another thing."<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%3A421' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Buckner S.
                  Morris and John J. Brown</xref>, 21 October 1847, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:406.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1847-10-23'>Saturday, October 23, 1847.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Preparing to leave for Washington to take his seat in Congress, Lincoln
            leases his home to C. Ludlum for one year beginning November 1, 1847, at rental of $90
            for year. He reserves "the North-up-stairs room" to store furniture.<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%3A422' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Lease Contract Between Abraham
                  Lincoln and Cornelius Ludlum</xref>, 23 October 1847, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:406-7.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1847-10-25'>Monday,
  October 25, 1847.</date> 
            <place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place> to 
  <place key='37.0000, -85.0000' teiForm='name'>Kentucky</place> and <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln family leaves for Kentucky.</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1847-10-26'>Tuesday, October 26, 1847.</date>
            <place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [In Petersburg, Menard Circuit Court grants divorce in <name type='case'>John D. Bowen v. Rhoda A. Bowen</name>. Lincoln wrote court
               decree.<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1847-10-27'>Wednesday, October 27, 1847.</date>
            <place key='38.6167, -90.1833' teiForm='name'>St. Louis, MO</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Daily Era of October 28, 1847 lists "A. Lincoln and family" and "Joshua F.
            Speed" as guests at Scott's Hotel, southwest corner 3rd and Market Sts., W. C. Scott,
            prop. They must have registered on 27th for their names to appear in paper on 28th.</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1847-10-28'>Thursday, October 28, 1847.</date>
            <place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place>.</dateline>
         <p> ("Mr. Lincoln, the member of Congress elect from this district, has just
            set out on his way to the city of Washington," reports Illinois Journal (formerly
            "Sangamo Journal"). "His family is with him; they intend to visit their friends and
            relatives in Kentucky before they take up the line of march for the seat of government.
            He will find many men in Congress who possess twice the good looks, and not half the
            good sense, of our own representatives.")</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1847-10-29'>Friday, October 29, 1847.</date>
            <place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [O. H. Browning and family of Quincy, Illinois, made trip to Lexington,
            Kentucky, in 1850. They required a week to travel from St. Louis. Evidently Lincoln's
            trip required the same time.]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1847-10-30'>Saturday, October 30, 1847.</date>
            <place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [The Lincolns traveled from St. Louis by boat probably to Frankfort,
            Kentucky. From there Lexington and Ohio Railroad, fore-runner of Louisville and
            Nashville, ran to Lexington. Journey probably continues through November 2, 1847.<bibl default='NO'>John W. Starr, <title>Lincoln and the
                  Railroads: A Biographical Study</title> (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1927), 47.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>