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         <dateline>
            <dateRange from='1847-08-01' to='1847-08-06'>
  Sunday, August 1, 1847-Friday, August 6, 1847.</dateRange> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p>Lincoln invites some of the delegates attending Illinois's state
  constitutional convention to his home. David Davis, a convention delegate from
  Bloomington, is one of approximately twenty guests. In a letter to his wife,
  Davis recalled the affair: "Mr. Lincoln invited about 20 gentlemen of the
  Convention to his house last week. No ladies present--not even Mrs.
  Lincoln...The Bill of fare the same as is usual in this town. Mrs. L. I am told
  accompanies her husband to Washington City next winter. She wishes to loom
  largely. You cant make a gentleman in his outward appearance, out of Lincoln to
  save your life." <bibl default='NO'>David Davis to Sarah W. Davis, 8 August 1847, David
  Davis Family Papers, folder B-2, IHi, Springfield, IL.</bibl>
         </p>
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         <dateline>
            <date value='1847-08-02'>Monday, August 2, 1847.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln votes straight Whig ticket in county election. Whigs win every
               office.<bibl default='NO'>Election Returns.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline> 
            <date value='1847-08-03'>Tuesday,
  August 3, 1847.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield,
  IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln buys sewing materials ($1.39)
  and merchandise, $2.44.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Irwin Ledger and Journal</title>.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1847-08-05'>Thursday, August 5, 1847.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Committee on projected railroad from Springfield to Alton reports in
            "Journal." Expense of grading, population to be served, products to be transported and
            estimated value, probable income, possibility of connections with East, and means of
            financing are dealt with. John Calhoun's name heads list of signers, with Lincoln's
               second.<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%3A418' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Report on Alton and
                  Springfield Railroad</xref>, 5 August 1847, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:398-405.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln signs bond for John M. Cabiniss, constable.<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1847-08-12'>Thursday, August 12, 1847.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln buys 30&#162; worth of pearl buttons and needles.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Irwin Ledger and Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1847-08-25'>Wednesday, August 25, 1847.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln draws up mortgage, charging $5, for James A. Barrett, who borrows
            $1,100 from William F. Thornton, secured by mortgage on 575 acres in Sangamon
               County.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Lincoln &amp; Herndon Fee Book</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1847-08-30'>Monday, August 30, 1847.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln buys clothing material, 75&#162;.<bibl default='NO'>Irwin Ledger.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> He and J. Robinson address meeting of Sangamon Temperance Union. One
            listener signs pledge.<bibl default='NO'>William H. Townsend, <title>Lincoln and Liquor</title> (New York: Press of the Pioneers,
               1935), 60.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> [Members of Constitutional Convention who favor Zachary Taylor for
            President hold evening meeting in Capitol. Some 50 Whigs attend.<bibl default='NO'>Illinois Gazette, 11 September 1847.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1847-08-31'>Tuesday, August 31, 1847.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [At Springfield, Constitutional Convention adjourns.]</p>
      </div2>