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         <dateline>
            <date value='1847-02-02'>Tuesday, February 2, 1847.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Merriman for appellant and Peters for appellee try <name type='case'>Garrett v. Stevenson et al. (SC)</name>, case arising under mechanics
            lien law. Lincoln loses appeal in <name type='case'>Hawks v.
            Landes</name> when court affirms decision of McLean Circuit Court.<bibl default='NO'>Record; 8 Ill. 227.</bibl>
         </p>
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         <dateline>
            <date value='1847-02-03'>Wednesday, February 3, 1847.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln concludes for appellant in <name type='case'>Garrett
               v. Stevenson et al. (SC)</name>.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1847-02-04'>Thursday, February 4, 1847.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln for appellant and Bledsoe for appellee try <name type='case'>Henderson v. Welch (SC)</name>, action to recover costs paid by
            appellee as nominal plaintiff in former suit. In <name type='case'>Steele
               v. Gilbert et al.</name>, Lincoln moves appeal be dismissed because of appellant's
            failure to file record within first three days of term. Court awards procedendo to
            Randolph Circuit Court.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1847-02-07'>Sunday, February 7, 1847.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [William Slade, former governor of Vermont, lectures in House of
            Representatives on "Popular Education."<bibl default='NO'>Illinois
               Gazette, 20 February 1847.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1847-02-08'>Monday, February 8, 1847.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln loses <name type='case'>Henderson v. Welch</name>
            when Supreme Court affirms decision of McHenry Circuit Court.<bibl default='NO'>8 Ill. 340.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
            <name type='case'>Cooper v. Crosby et al.</name> is tried by Lincoln for
            appellant and Logan for appellees. Lincoln replies to letter from Henry E. Dummer of
            Beardstown: "I have procured Judge Lockwood's part to be performed and now mail the
            record to St. Louis as you desired."<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%3A410' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Henry E.
                  Dummer</xref>, 8 February 1847, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:392.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1847-02-09'>Tuesday, February 9, 1847.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln loses <name type='case'>Cowls v. Cowls</name> when
            Supreme Court affirms judgment of Edwards Circuit Court. <name type='case'>Sargeant v. Kellogg</name>, Lincoln for appellee, is continued.<bibl default='NO'>Record; 8 Ill. 435.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1847-02-10'>Wednesday, February 10, 1847.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln acknowledges service of notice in <name type='case'>Young v. Hanon et al.</name>, Christian County chancery case. Lincoln &amp;
            Herndon are for defendants.<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1847-02-11'>Thursday, February 11, 1847.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln loses <name type='case'>Cooper v. Crosby et
            al.</name> when Supreme Court affirms decision of Sangamon Circuit Court.<bibl default='NO'>Record; 8 Ill. 506.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1847-02-12'>Friday, February 12, 1847.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln appears for appellants in three cases before Supreme
               Court&#8212;<name type='case'>Jesse Fell et al. v. Price et
            al.</name>, <name type='case'>Anderson v. Ryan</name>, and <name type='case'>Wafer et al. v. Stover et al.</name> In <name type='case'>Garrett v. Stevenson et al.</name>, decree of Tazewell Circuit Court
            is affirmed in part, but Lincoln is substantially successful when court reduces
            appellees' claim by nearly half.<bibl default='NO'>8 Ill. 261.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline> 
            <date value='1847-02-13'>Saturday,
  February 13, 1847.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield,
  IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> 
            <name type='case'>Wright
  v. Taylor</name> is tried before Supreme Court by Bledsoe for appellant and
  Lincoln for appellee. Wright charges that Taylor assigned note, signed by
  Wright, to Bank of Illinois and paid it in depreciated currency of bank.
  Consequently he avers that he is bound to pay Taylor only equivalent value.
  Lower court decided against him.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1847-02-15'>Monday, February 15, 1847.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln is attorney for appellants in <name type='case'>Shaeffer et al. v. Weed et al.</name>, suit to enforce mechanics lien. He is opposed
            by Stickney and Bledsoe. Case is appeal from White Circuit Court. <name type='case'>Welch et al. v. Sykes et al.</name> is continued by consent. Young and
            Lincoln are attorneys for appellant.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1847-02-16'>Tuesday, February 16, 1847.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln loses <name type='case'>Wright v. Taylor</name> when
            Supreme Court reverses decision of Menard Circuit Court. He also loses <name type='case'>Anderson v. Ryan</name> when judgment of Coles Circuit Court is
            affirmed. He wins <name type='case'>Fell et al. v. Price et al.</name>
            when court reverses McLean Circuit Court and makes perpetual injunction against
            defendants' claim to land owned by plaintiff.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1847-02-17'>Wednesday, February 17, 1847.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> By consent of parties, order of continuance in <name type='case'>Welch et al. v. Sykes</name> is vacated.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1847-02-18'>Thursday, February 18, 1847.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln for appellants and Constable for appellee try <name type='case'>Welch et al. v. Sykes</name>. Peters for appellees moves to have <name type='case'>Garrett v. Stevenson et al.</name> remanded to Peoria
            Circuit Court. Lincoln resists motion. Lincoln loses appeal in <name type='case'>Wafer et al. v. Stover et al.</name> when Supreme Court affirms
            decision of Woodford Circuit Court.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1847-02-19'>Friday, February 19, 1847.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln wins appeal in <name type='case'>Trumbull v.
               Campbell</name>. Trumbull received $400 for services rendered while he was secretary
            of state. Campbell, his successor, claimed that $200 of this should have gone to him.
            Sangamon Circuit Court upheld his claim; but Supreme Court rules that right of recovery
            lies only in state.<bibl default='NO'>Record; 8 Ill. 502.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1847-02-20'>Saturday, February 20, 1847.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Supreme Court denies defendants' motion of 18th in <name type='case'>Garrett v. Stevenson et al.</name>
            <bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1847-02-22'>Monday, February 22, 1847.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln wins <name type='case'>Shaeffer et al. v. Weed et
               al.</name> when Supreme Court reverses decision of White Circuit Court and denies
            relief sought. He also wins <name type='case'>Welch et al. v. Sykes et
               al.</name> when decision of Clark Circuit Court is reversed. This is action to
            collect judgment obtained in Maryland. Supreme Court decides that appellees had not been
            under jurisdiction of Maryland court.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1847-02-25'>Thursday, February 25, 1847.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> "Yours of the 2d of December was duly delivered to me by Mr. Williams,"
            writes Lincoln to Andrew Johnston of Quincy. "I am not at all displeased with your
            proposal to publish the poetry, or doggerel . . . which I sent you . . . but let names
            be suppressed by all means. I have not sufficient hope of the verses attracting any
            favorable notice to tempt me to risk being ridiculed for having written 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%3A411' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Andrew
                  Johnston</xref>, 25 February 1847, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:392.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>