<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1847-12-02'>Thursday,
  December 2, 1847.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>.</dateline>
         <p> The Lincolns arrive late at night and
  take lodgings at Brown's Hotel.<bibl default='NO'>Allen C.
  Clark, <title>Abraham Lincoln in the National Capital</title>
  (Washington, D.C.: W. F. Roberts Co., 1925), 3.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p>
  (Later they take rooms at Mrs. Sprigg's boarding house on site of Library of
  Congress.<bibl default='NO'>Samuel C. Busey,
  <title>Personal Reminiscences and Recollections of Forty-six
  Years Membership in the Medical Society of the District of Columbia, and
  Residence in This City, with Biographical Sketches of Many of the Deceased
  Members</title> (Washington, D.C.: n. p.), 25.</bibl>)</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1847-12-03'>Friday, December 3, 1847.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.</dateline>
         <p> "This is my first day at this place," writes Lincoln to David A. Smith of
            Jacksonville, "&amp; on reaching here I found your letter in relation to your
            business with Douglass. I met him afterwards, but disliking to dunn him at the first
            meeting with him, I let it pass for the time. I will attend to it shortly however
            &amp; write you."<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%3A424' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to David A.
                  Smith</xref>, 3 December 1847, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:416.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1847-12-04'>Saturday, December 4, 1847.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln attends evening Whig caucus which nominates Winthrop of
            Massachusetts for speaker, Sargent of Pennsylvania for sergeant-at-arms, Horner of New
            Jersey for doorkeeper, and McCormick of District of Columbia for postmaster.<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%3A425' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to William H.
                  Herndon</xref>, 5 December 1847, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:416-17.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1847-12-05'>Sunday, December 5, 1847.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes to Herndon regarding case in Illinois Supreme Court. Last
            year plaintiff paid firm $20 advance fee and left Lincoln $10 to pay for abstracts.
            Lincoln forgot to leave $10 with Herndon. He sends it, and describes caucus. "The Whig
            majority . . . is so small . . . [it] leaves it doubtful whether we will elect them
               all."<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%3A425' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to William H.
                  Herndon</xref>, 5 December 1847, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:416-17.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1847-12-06'>Monday, December 6, 1847.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.</dateline>
         <p> House convenes at 12 o'clock. Lincoln votes for Robert C. Winthrop of
            Massachusetts for speaker. He is elected on third ballot. After administration of oath
            to members, House adjourns.<bibl default='NO'>Congressional Globe.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1847-12-07'>Tuesday, December 7, 1847.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln votes for Thomas J. Campbell for clerk. He is elected. House and
            Senate listen to President Polk's message in which he accuses Mexico of "invading the
            territory of the State of Texas, striking the first blow, and shedding the blood of our
            citizens on our own soil."<bibl default='NO'>Congressional Globe.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln also signs petition for appointment of John Raub to minor
               post.<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%3A426' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Endorsement: Chester Butler et
                  al. to Robert E. Horner</xref>, 7 December 1847, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:417.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1847-12-08'>Wednesday, December 8, 1847.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes to President Polk recommending appointment of Franklin L.
            Rhoads of Pekin and Thomas Graham Jr. of Beardstown as lieutenants.<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%3A428' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to James K.
                  Polk</xref>, 8 December 1847, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:418; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln1;node=lincoln1%3A427' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to James K.
                  Polk</xref>, 8 December 1847, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:417-18.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> House members draw for seats. Lincoln draws number 191. He votes for Nathan
            Sargent for sergeant-at-arms and Robert E. Horner for doorkeeper. Both are elected. He
            votes for William J. McCormick for postmaster but he is defeated by John M.
               Johnson.<bibl default='NO'>Globe.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1847-12-09'>Thursday, December 9, 1847.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln is appointed to two standing committees&#8212;Committee on Post
            Office and Post Roads and Committee on Expenditures in War Department. House adjourns
            until December 13, 1847 at 12 o'clock.<bibl default='NO'>Globe.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1847-12-10'>Friday,
  December 10, 1847.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>.</dateline>
         <p> "I presented your claim to Douglass this
  morning . . . ," writes Lincoln to Richard Yates of Jacksonville. "He will pay
  it in a few days. . . . I believe Mr. Calhoun and what force he can control are
  preparing to support Gen. Taylor for the Presidency. I get this impression from
  conversations with Duff Greene, who boards at the same house I do. There are,
  however, a great many Whigs here who do not wish to go for Taylor."
  <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%3A430' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Richard
  Yates</xref>, 10 December 1847, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:419.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1847-12-11'>Saturday, December 11, 1847.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln again writes to President Polk regarding F. L. Rhoads' application
            for lieutenancy. Since his letter of 8th he has received letter on behalf of Rhoads from
            E. D. Baker, which he submits to Polk.<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%3A431' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to James K.
                  Polk</xref>, 11 December 1847, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:419.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1847-12-12'>Sunday, December 12, 1847.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.</dateline>
         <p> "It is my intention," writes Lincoln to T. J. Henderson of Stark County,
            "to snatch a moment now and then, to send documents to some friends, out of my district,
            among whom I shall place Captain Butler and yourself."<bibl default='NO'>IHi&#8212;<title>Journal</title>, IV, 74.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> He writes Herndon that "Congressional Globe" will begin arriving at Lincoln
            &amp; Herndon office. He suggests his partner read and preserve them.<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%3A432' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to William H.
                  Herndon</xref>, 12 December 1847, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:419-20.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1847-12-13'>Monday, December 13, 1847.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln receives letter from Herndon informing him of receipt of fee. "I .
            . . wish you to buy Bank certificates and pay my debt there," he replies, ". . . pay
            Lavely and Stout $20&#8212;and Priest &amp; somebody (oil makers)
            $10&#8212;for materials got for house-painting. . . . As you are all so anxious for
            me to distinguish myself, I have concluded to do so, before long."<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%3A433' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to William H.
                  Herndon</xref>, 13 December 1847, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:420.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1847-12-14'>Tuesday, December 14, 1847.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Rev. R. R. Gurley is elected chaplain of House. He wins by two votes over
            Rev. Mr. Cushman, for whom Lincoln votes.<bibl default='NO'>Globe.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1847-12-15'>Wednesday, December 15, 1847.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes petition for Dr. A. G. Henry, which Henry signs, asking
            compensation for expenses incurred in supplying volunteer Mexican War company of Capt.
            Edward Jones.<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A874' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Petition of Anson G.
               Henry</xref>, 15 December 1847, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:414.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1847-12-20'>Monday, December 20, 1847.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln presents petition from A. G. Henry, and gives notice of motion for
            leave to introduce bill to amend "an act to raise . . . an additional military force . .
            . approved Feb. 11, 1847." He votes against resolution declaring war just and necessary
            and that indemnity must depend on obstinacy of enemy in prolonging it.<bibl default='NO'>Globe.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1847-12-21'>Tuesday, December 21, 1847.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln votes against motion to table memorial from citizens of District of
            Columbia requesting that all laws authorizing or sanctioning slave trade in District be
            repealed. He votes aye on resolution declaring that general government has right to
            construct harbors and improve rivers for commerce and national defense. It passes,
               134-54.<bibl default='NO'>Globe.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> He receives from Stephen A. Douglas check for $167, for Robert Smith of
               Alton.<bibl default='NO'>Original owned by Douglas Family.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1847-12-22'>Wednesday, December 22, 1847.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln
  presents resolutions requesting President to inform House whether "spot" on
  which American blood was first shed in Mexican War was within territory claimed
  by Mexico. Resolutions are read and laid on table.
  <bibl default='NO'>Globe;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln1;node=lincoln1%3A434' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>"Spot" Resolutions in the
  United States House of Representatives</xref>, 22 December 1847,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:420-22.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> He presents memorial of citizens of Illinois in behalf of
  Great Western Railroad.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Journal of the House of Representatives</title> [cited
  as Journal].</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1847-12-23'>Thursday, December 23, 1847.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [House hears obituary on late T. L. Hamer, representative-elect from Ohio.
            After adopting appropriate resolutions, it adjourns until December 28, 1847.<bibl default='NO'>Globe.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1847-12-26'>Sunday, December 26, 1847.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes Pension commissioner asking status of land warrant claims of
            two constituents, John Huckleberry and Thomas Collins of Sangamon County, Mexican War
               veterans.<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%3A435' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the
                  Commissioner of Pensions</xref>, 26 December 1847, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:422.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1847-12-28'>Tuesday, December 28, 1847.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.</dateline>
         <p> C. B. Smith presents petition of citizens of Jay County, Indiana, praying
            abolition of slavery and slave trade in District of Columbia. Petition is tabled, 76-70,
            Lincoln voting nay.<bibl default='NO'>Globe.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1847-12-29'>Wednesday, December 29, 1847.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln, Douglas, McClernand, Richardson, Ficklin, Robert Smith, and Thomas
            Turner, Illinois senators and representatives, sign letter to President Polk requesting
            that Francis B. Thompson of Edwards County, Illinois, be appointed assistant surgeon in
               army.<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1847-12-30'>Thursday, December 30, 1847.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Amos Tuck of New Hampshire presents petition of citizens of Philadelphia
            praying for passage of law to appropriate proceeds of public land sales for extinction
            of slavery in U.S. and moves its reference to Committee on Territories. It is tabled,
            86-70, Lincoln voting nay. House adjourns until January 3, 1847.<bibl default='NO'>Globe.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>