<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1850-02-01'>Friday, February 1, 1850.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>. </dateline>
         <p>In the morning, Edward Baker
  Lincoln, the second child of Abraham and Mary Lincoln, dies in Springfield.
  Edward, who had been ill for nearly two months, would have turned four years
  old on March 10. In a letter he wrote a few weeks later to his stepbrother John
  D. Johnston, Lincoln informed Johnston that "we lost our little boy...We miss
  him very much." <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%3A125' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to John D. Johnston</xref>, 23 February 1850,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:76-77.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Poem,
  "Little Eddie," published in Illinois Journal February 7, 1850, may have been
  written by Lincoln. </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1850-02-02'>Saturday, February 2, 1850.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Edward Baker Lincoln is buried. "The funeral will take place this 
morning at 11 o'clock from the residence of Mr. Lincoln."
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Illinois Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1850-02-05'>Tuesday, February 5, 1850.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield,
  IL</place>. </dateline>
         <p> In Supreme Court Lincoln &amp; Herndon for
  appellants and Stuart and Edwards for appellees argue 
  <name type='case' key='L01242'>Pearl &amp; Holland v. Wellman &amp;
  Wellman</name>. Wellmans sued in Tazewell Circuit Court to compel payment of
  judgment, which had been appealed and affirmed by Supreme Court in 1848.
  Tazewell court decided against Pearl and Holland and they again appealed. 
  <bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1850-02-06'>Wednesday, February 6, 1850.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln concludes for appellants in <name type='case' key='L01242'>Pearl &amp; Holland v. Wellman &amp; Wellman</name>. Court affirms judgment of 
Circuit Court.
<bibl default='NO'>Record; 11 Ill. 352.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
[Register alludes to "ardent scramble" among Whigs for office of 
federal judge. "Among the most prominent names . . . are Messrs. 
Browning, Bushnell, Butterfield, Logan, Lincoln and Williams."]
</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1850-02-08'>Friday, February 8, 1850.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln receives letter from Sylvester Emmons of Cass County, 
requesting recommendation for appointment under U.S. marshal. He 
writes to Thomas J. Turner about land case.
<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%3A119' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Sylvester Emmons</xref>, 9 February 1850, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:72-73; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A118' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Thomas J. Turner</xref>, 8 February 1850, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:72.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1850-02-09'>Saturday, February 9, 1850.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln writes to Emmons: "I shall be entirely satisfied for you to 
receive the appointment you desire; still I know . . . [the marshal] 
will look to the wishes of the people of your county, rather than to 
mine, as to who shall have the appointment. Therefore as your friend, 
I advise you to get the recommendation of some of your prominent 
whigs&#8212; . . . and I will most cheerfully present them to the 
Marshall when he shall be here."
<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%3A119' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Sylvester Emmons</xref>, 9 February 1850, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:72-73.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1850-02-15'>Friday, February 15, 1850.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln writes to John Tillson, early settler, land-owner and 
philanthropist of Quincy, in behalf of "a near and favorite" 
neighbor, Mrs. Stout, who "thinks that some relatives of hers in Bond 
county have not done exactly right with her in relation to the 
estates of her grand-father &amp; grand-mother, and that you have 
some knowledge on the subject."
<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%3A120' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to John Tillson</xref>, 15 February 1850, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:73.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1850-02-16'>Saturday, February 16, 1850.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln writes to William Fithian of Danville in response to 
inquiries about sale and rental value of properties belonging to 
Major Mobley which are to be sold under judgment secured by Lincoln, 
Fithian's attorney, in Sangamon Circuit Court August 29, 1849.
<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%3A121' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to William Fithian</xref>, 16 February 1850, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:74.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1850-02-18'>Monday, February 18, 1850.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln writes and signs bill in chancery in <name type='case' key='L03303'>Gatton 
et al. v. Turner &amp; Ransom</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='1850-02-19'>Tuesday, February 19, 1850.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
[Declaration and praecipe in <name type='case' key='L00153'>Bale v. Wright &amp; 
Hickox</name>, written and signed by Lincoln, for plaintiff, is filed 
in Petersburg.
<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>]
</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1850-02-20'>Wednesday, February 20, 1850.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln, Richard Yates, W. Pickering, and others sign address to 
secretary of war recommending Capt. Napoleon Koscialowski, Polish 
revolutionary and Mexican War soldier, as major of proposed regiment. 
Lincoln also writes personal recommendation for Koscialowski to 
present to secretary.
<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%3A122' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to George W. Crawford</xref>, [20 February 1850], <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:74-75; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A123' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to George W. Crawford</xref>, 20 February 1850, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:76.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln buys $1.50 in merchandise.
<bibl default='NO'>Irwin Ledger.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform' type='Revised'> <dateline> 
  <date value='1850-02-22'>Friday, February 22, 1850.</date> 
  <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
  </dateline> <p> Lincoln writes to his client Abraham Bale, of Petersburg,
  Illinois, regarding the Menard County Circuit Court case of 
  <name type='case' key='L00153'>Bale v. Wright &amp; Hickox</name>. Bale is
  suing Virgil Hickox and Asa D. Wright to collect $1,000, from a wheat sale.
  Lincoln writes, "I understand Mr. Hickox will go, or send to Petersburg
  to-morrow, for the purpose of meeting you to settle the difficulty about the
  wheat. I sincerely hope you will settle it. . . . If you settle, I will
  charge nothing for what I have done, and thank you to boot. By settling, you
  will most likely get your money sooner; and with much less trouble &amp;
  expense." <bibl default='NO'>Declaration, Praecipe (copy), 27 January 1850,
  <title>Bale v. Wright &amp; Hickox</title>, IHi, Springfield, IL;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A124' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Abraham Bale</xref>, 22
  February 1850, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:76.</bibl> </p>
  </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1850-02-23'>Saturday, February 23, 1850.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln writes to John D. Johnston, his stepbrother, who wishes his 
help in securing contract for mail route: "I have made out a bid for 
you at $120, guaranteed it myself, got our PM here to certify it, and 
sent it on." Regarding previous letter of Johnston's concerning "some 
man's claim for a pension," he writes that those of whom he inquired 
about claim "decide that he can not get a pension."
<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%3A125' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to John D. Johnston</xref>, 23 February 1850, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:76-77.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1850-02-25'>Monday, February 25, 1850.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln writes to John Murray and President Taylor regarding office 
Murray wants.
<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%3A126' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to John Murray</xref>, 25 February 1850, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:77.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>