<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1849-07-04'>Wednesday, July 4, 1849.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln writes to secretary of state hoping that Richard W. Thompson 
of Indiana may secure diplomatic appointment.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A84' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to John M. Clayton</xref>, 4 July 1849, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:56.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1849-07-05'>Thursday, July 5, 1849.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln writes Secretary Ewing, asking that if anyone in his district 
is to have "little favor" of appointment as Land Office examiner, 
William Porter be selected.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A85' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Thomas Ewing</xref>, 5 July 1849, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:56-57.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
He buys six "tumblers" at Bunn's store.
<bibl default='NO'>Bunn Journal.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
[U.S. District Court, Judge Pope presiding, opens session in Chicago.]
</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1849-07-06'>Friday, July 6, 1849.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln writes David Davis, relating his trip to Washington and 
failure in patronage struggle.
<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
He buys 75&#162; worth of "sundries" at Bunn's store.
<bibl default='NO'>Bunn Journal.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform' type='New'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1849-07-09'>Monday,
  July 9, 1849.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p>Lincoln writes to Secretary of the Interior Thomas Ewing
  regarding the recent appointment of a Commissioner of the General Land Office.
  Lincoln had applied for the position by asking various individuals to write
  letters recommending him for the job. Lincoln lost out to Chicago attorney
  Justin Butterfield. Lincoln concedes Butterfield's appointment, but questions
  Ewing about some missing letters of recommendation in Lincoln's file. In
  particular, Lincoln mentions that he "was surprised" to learn that the letters
  from Richard Wigginton Thompson and Elisha Embree, "late Whig members of
  Congress from two of the Wabash districts in Indiana," were not among the
  letters in his file. Lincoln was assured by both men that they had sent letters
  on his behalf. The letters from Thompson and Embree, in Lincoln's estimation,
  represented his best chance of obtaining the appointment: "I relied upon, and
  valued, them more than any other two letters I had, because of the high
  standing of the writers, because of their location within the Public Land
  states, and because they did (what few other members of Congress could) speak
  of my character and standing at <uLine>home</uLine>." Lincoln notes the salient
  importance of the Thompson letter: "The letter of Mr. Thompson was a
  recantation from Mr. B. to me; so that without it, I not only lost him, but he
  stood in full life recommending Mr. B." Lincoln finds it curious that the
  Thompson and Embree letters, "in particular, happen to be missing," and he asks
  Ewing to reply. <bibl default='NO'>Abraham Lincoln to Thomas Ewing, 9 July 1849, CW
  11:3-4.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1849-07-13'>Friday, July
  13, 1849.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>. </dateline>
         <p> In letter to
  Joseph Gillespie, Lincoln deplores Cyrus Edwards' belief he has played false
  with him. He encloses another letter to be shown to Edwards stating that he
  first determined to be applicant only when he was informed by telegraph that
  "the question was narrowed down to Mr. B. and myself." <bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A88' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Joseph Gillespie</xref>, 13 July 1849,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:57-59.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1849-07-14'>Saturday, July 14, 1849.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>. </dateline>
         <p> In the Sangamon County Circuit
  Court, Lincoln files a bill for divorce in the case of 
  <name type='case' key='L04368'>Plunkett v. Plunkett</name>. Robert S. Plunkett
  seeks to end his marriage to Ann Alexander Plunkett, whom Lincoln's former law
  partner Stephen T. Logan represents. In the bill, Lincoln describes Robert as
  "an affectionate husband," and explains, "on or about the 14th day of
  February...1846...Ann wilfully deserted and absented herself from
  [Robert]...without any reasonable cause, and has continually since remained
  absent from him, being now for more than the space of two years." <bibl default='NO'>Bill
  for Divorce, filed 14 July 1849, <ital>Plunkett v. Plunkett</ital>,
  Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1849-07-21'>Saturday, July 21, 1849.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln receives letter from John Addison, Land Office clerk, 
Washington, stating that Butterfield has James Berdan in mind for job.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A90' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to James Berdan</xref>, 22 July 1849, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:59-60.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1849-07-22'>Sunday, July 22, 1849.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln writes patronage letters. He asks John Addison to forward 
letters arriving at Land Office supporting Lincoln for commissioner. 
"I should like to see them. I have now about forty such." He informs 
James Berdan that Berdan is now being considered for appointment by 
Butterfield. "I took the precaution to withdraw the letters filed in 
my favor for Comr.; so that the very pretty one you wrote for me, can 
not rise in judgment against you." He also sends testimonial to 
Secretary Ewing for George H. Holtzman, clerk applicant.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A89' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to John Addison</xref>, 22 July 1849, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:59; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A90' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to James Berdan</xref>, 22 July 1849, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:59-60; Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1849-07-23'>Monday, July 23, 1849.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
[First train runs on Sangamon &amp; Morgan Railroad, rebuilt Northern 
Cross Railroad, in which Lincoln is interested.
<bibl default='NO'>ISLA&#8212;File.</bibl>]
</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1849-07-24'>Tuesday, July 24, 1849.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln is rebuilding his law practice. He writes and files a declaration for his client, Edward D. Baker, in <name type='case' key='L02578'>Baker v. Browne</name>.
<bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1849-07-25'>Wednesday, July 25, 1849.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln and Benjamin S. Edwards, representing John B. Watson, write and file a declaration in <name type='case' key='L04807'>Watson v. Sangamon &amp; Morgan Railroad</name>, a case before the Sangamon County Circuit Court to collect payment for cross ties Watson delivered to the railroad.
<bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1849-07-26'>Thursday, July 26, 1849.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln buys scythe and handle at Irwin's store.
<bibl default='NO'>Irwin Ledger and Journal.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1849-07-27'>Friday, July 27, 1849.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln writes and files a bill for specific performance in <name type='case' key='L04939'>Webster &amp; Huntington v. French et 
al.</name>, signing for complainants' attorneys, Logan, Lincoln &amp; 
Herndon, and Brayman.
<bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1849-07-28'>Saturday, July 28, 1849.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln writes to John M. Clayton criticizing policy of leaving 
responsibility for appointments to departments. This "is fixing for 
the President the unjust and ruinous character of being a mere man of 
straw." Unless arrested "it will damn us all inevitably." Taylor 
"must occasionally say, or seem to say, 'by the Eternal,' 'I take the 
responsibility.' "
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A92' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to John M. Clayton</xref>, 28 July 1849, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:60.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1849-07-31'>Tuesday, July
  31, 1849.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Lincoln
  writes, signs, and files with the Sangamon County Circuit Court a declaration
  and affidavit in <name type='case' key='L02572'>Bailer v. Davis</name>.
  Lincoln's client, Henry Bailer, signs the affidavit with his mark. 
  <bibl default='NO'>Record; Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress, Washington,
  DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>