<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1850-11-03'>Sunday, November 3, 1850.</date>
            <place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place> to <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Interrupting his circuit work, Lincoln starts for Springfield to vote 
in approaching election.
</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1850-11-04'>Monday, November 4, 1850.</date>
            <place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place> to <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
[Shelby Circuit Court convenes for fall term.]
</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1850-11-05'>Tuesday, November 5, 1850.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln gets home in time to vote in election for congressman, 
representatives for legislature, treasurer, sheriff, and coroner.
<bibl default='NO'>Election Returns.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1850-11-06'>Wednesday, November 6, 1850.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
To Isaac Onstot, who is still trying to get postmastership at Havana, 
Lincoln writes that he has informed Post Office Department "that if 
the recommendations from your own county place <uLine>you</uLine> on 
very nearly equal ground with the best of your competitors, I desire 
that you may be appointed." Lincoln says he would have answered 
sooner, but has "been absent on the circuit for seven weeks."
<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%3A145' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Isaac Onstott</xref>, 6 November 1850, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:94.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1850-11-08'>Friday, November 8, 1850.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln collects $25 retainer from state for future legal services in <name type='case' key='L01727'>Compher et al. v. People</name>.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Illinois Reports</title>, 1851.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1850-11-11'>Monday, November 11, 1850.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln writes and signs declaration in <name type='case' key='L04496'>Saunders for use of Matheny v. Harrison</name>, Sangamon Circuit Court case.
<bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1850-11-14'>Thursday, November 14, 1850.</date>
            <place key='39.8333, -88.9500' teiForm='name'>Decatur, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
            <name type='case' key='L00429'>Rhodes v. Helm</name>, assumpsit, comes to trial in Macon Circuit Court. Emerson and Lincoln represent plaintiff, Post defendant. Jury fails to agree and case is continued. <name type='case' key='L00443'>Warnick v. Eckel</name>, ejection suit, Lincoln and Post for plaintiff, is continued.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1850-11-15'>Friday, November 15, 1850.</date>
            <place key='39.8333, -88.9500' teiForm='name'>Decatur, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln writes and files bond for costs for plaintiff in <name type='case' key='L00451'>Hill v. Whitley</name>, slander. He also writes replication and plea.
<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy; Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1850-11-16'>Saturday, November 16, 1850.</date> 
            <place key='39.8333, -88.9500' teiForm='name'>Decatur,
  IL</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Lincoln has three cases in court. In 
  <name type='case'>Froman v. Pearson</name>, attachment case involving cattle,
  attorneys for plaintiff file proof of publication, and Lincoln and Benedict are
  ruled to answer for defendant by April 1, 1850. Thornton and Lincoln file
  defendant's answer in <name type='case' key='L00428'>Redfield et ux. v.
  Dewees</name>, case involving dower right. Case is continued. 
  <name type='case' key='L00451'>Hill v. Whitley</name> is continued. 
  <bibl default='NO'>Record; Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress, Washington,
  DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> [<person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> buys $1.25
  worth of merchandise. <bibl default='NO'>Irwin Ledger.</bibl>] </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1850-11-18'>Monday, November 18, 1850.</date>
            <place key='39.5333, -89.2833' teiForm='name'>Taylorville, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Fall term of the Christian Circuit Court opens. Yates, one of 
defendants in <name type='case' key='L01513'>Barrett &amp; Barrett v. Eastham et al.</name>, 
last before court August 22, 1850, files cross bill.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1850-11-19'>Tuesday, November 19, 1850.</date>
            <place key='39.5333, -89.2833' teiForm='name'>Taylorville, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln files affidavit for defendant in <name type='case'>People v. 
Brown</name>.
<bibl default='NO'>Files.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln writes and signs answer of William Yates in <name type='case' key='L01513'>Barrett &amp; Barrett v. Eastham et al.</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='1850-11-20'>Wednesday, November 20, 1850.</date>
            <place key='39.5333, -89.2833' teiForm='name'>Taylorville, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
[Illinois Journal reports rumored resignation of Justin Butterfield 
as commissioner of General Land Office. "Abraham Lincoln, who was 
defeated . . . by, as we think, the withholding of certain papers in 
his behalf,&#8212;will not now from the peculiar state of his private 
affairs, accept the office, even if it should be offered to him. . . 
. But Mr. Lincoln will most cheerfully and heartily sustain Hon. 
Cyrus Edward for the appointment."]
</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1850-11-21'>Thursday, November 21, 1850.</date>
            <place key='39.5333, -89.2833' teiForm='name'>Taylorville, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
In <name type='case' key='L01591'>Tanner v. Ketchum et al.</name>, trespass vi et 
armis, jury fails to agree and is discharged. Vandeveer argues for 
plaintiff, Lincoln for defendant.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1850-11-22'>Friday, November 22, 1850.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Sangamon Circuit Court convenes for fall term. Lincoln &amp; Herndon, representing plaintiff in <name type='case' key='L03317'>Gillman v. Gillman</name>, secure rule on defendant to answer by November 25, 1850.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1850-11-23'>Saturday, November 23, 1850.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln &amp; Herndon have two cases in Circuit Court. <name type='case' key='L04702'>Thaxton et ux. v. Dunn et al.</name>, in which they are attorneys for complainant, is stricken from docket. In <name type='case'>Glynn v. Murray et al.</name> they suggest marriage of 
Margaret Murray, their client, to James M. Hailey.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1850-11-25'>Monday, November 25, 1850.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln &amp; Herndon have five cases in court. One is dismissed by their opponents. In <name type='case' key='L03317'>Gillman v. Gillman</name>, defendant defaults and their client is granted divorce. They file declarations and proof of service in <name type='case' key='L04137'>Neale v. Britton</name> and <name type='case' key='L02652'>Beerup et al. v. Britton</name>. In <name type='case' key='L02824'>Bunn v. Jones</name>, defendant confesses debt of $1,598.60 and judgment for that amount is entered for their client.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1850-11-26'>Tuesday, November 26, 1850.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
State's attorney drops <name type='case' key='L04260'>People v. Smith</name>, indictment for obstructing road. Lincoln &amp; Herndon appear for Smith. <name type='case' key='L03035'>Warner v. Calhoun</name>, in which they represent defendant, is abated by reason of plaintiff's death. They file answer of Mason Brayman, one of defendants in <name type='case' key='L03383'>C. Freeman &amp; Co. et al. v. Bradford et al.</name>
            <bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln buys $1.25 umbrella.
<bibl default='NO'>Irwin Journal.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1850-11-27'>Wednesday, November 27, 1850.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Lincoln &amp; Herndon win
  appeal, <name type='case' key='L03359'>Graves v. Penny</name>, when court
  awards plaintiff $76.99 debt. Defendant appeals to Supreme Court. They lose
  second appeal, <name type='case' key='L03770'>Kirts v. Wilbourn</name>, when
  court finds for defendant. <name type='case' key='L03052'>Coon v. Lloyd et
  al.</name>, suit on contract to "grub stake" man in California gold rush, is
  dismissed by agreement at defendant's costs. Lincoln, Herndon, and Ferguson
  represent Coon. <bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1850-11-29'>Friday, November 29, 1850.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln files defendant's pleas in <name type='case' key='L03400'>Gross v. Calhoun &amp; Barrett</name>, action for debt.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1850-11-30'>Saturday, November 30, 1850.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln writes and signs, for Logan, Brayman, and Lincoln, assignment of errors in <name type='case' key='L04939'>Webster &amp; Huntington v. French et al.</name>
            <bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>