<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1850-06-01'>Saturday, June 1, 1850.</date>
            <place key='39.8333, -88.9500' teiForm='name'>Decatur, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Jury is waived in <name type='case' key='L00436'>Spangler v. Wood</name> and court awards plaintiff $64.29 interest on note. Lincoln and Post appear for plaintiff, Emerson for defendant. Lincoln's fee is $5. Lincoln has two other cases but both are continued. Lincoln writes additional count in <name type='case' key='L00458'>Andrews v. House</name>.
<bibl default='NO'>Record; ISLA&#8212;Files; Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1850-06-02'>Sunday, June 2, 1850.</date>
            <place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place> to <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln leaves circuit and returns to Springfield for session of U.S. 
and Sangamon Circuit Courts.
</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1850-06-03'>Monday, June 3, 1850.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
On Lincoln's motion, U.S. Circuit Court adjourns until tomorrow in 
memory of Judge Nathaniel Pope, who died January 22, 1850. At night 
bar meets to honor judge's memory. Lincoln, appointed member of 
committee to frame appropriate resolutions, writes committee's report.
<bibl default='NO'>Register, 4 June 1850; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A130' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Resolutions on the Death of Nathaniel Pope</xref>, 3 June 1850, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:78-79.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1850-06-05'>Wednesday, June 5, 1850.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield,
  IL</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Writing to editor of "Illinois Journal" regarding
  article in "Tazewell Mirror" recommending him as Whig candidate for Congress,
  Lincoln states that he prefers that his name not be brought forward. "Let a
  Convention be held at a suitable time, and in good feeling, make a nomination;
  and I venture the prediction we will show the District once more <uLine>right
  side up</uLine>." <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%3A131' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to the Editors of the <title>Illinois Journal</title> 
               </xref>, 5 June
  1850, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:79.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln
  buys 75&#162; worth of merchandise. <bibl default='NO'>Irwin Ledger.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1850-06-08'>Saturday, June 8, 1850.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
[Western Whig of Bloomington observes: "We see that the last Pekin 
Mirror is out in favor of A. Lincoln of Springfield, as the Whig 
candidate for Congress in the Congressional District.&#8212;We 
certainly could have no particular objection to the above nomination. 
Abe has beaten locofocoism heretofore, &amp; can most assuredly do so 
again."]
</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1850-06-11'>Tuesday, June 11, 1850.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield,
  IL</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes to Nathaniel Hay and places an order
  for a home-improvement project. Lincoln writes, "I wish to build a front fence,
  on a brick foundation, at my house. I therefore shall be obliged, if you will,
  as soon as possible, deliver me bricks of suitable quality, and sufficient
  number to build such foundation, fifty feet long; of proper width, and depth,
  under ground, and about two feet above ground." <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%3A132' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Nathaniel Hay</xref>, 11 June 1850, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:79-80.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1850-06-13'>Thursday, June 13, 1850.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
[Eighty-three prominent members of Whig and Democratic parties sign 
call for meeting of citizens favorable to solution of problem of 
slavery in territories acquired from Mexico as proposed by 
Congressional Committee of Thirteen, forerunner of Compromise of 
1850. Neither Lincoln's nor Herndon's name appears on call.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Illinois Journal</title>; Register.</bibl>]
</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1850-06-14'>Friday, June 14, 1850.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln and Herndon write legal notice for "Illinois Journal" stating that bill has been filed and subpoena issued to foreclose mortgage in <name type='case' key='L04508'>John Shaw &amp; Co. v. Alsop</name>. They also write notice of petition for divorce in <name type='case' key='L03317'>Susanna Gillman v. Benjamin M. Gillman</name>.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Illinois Journal</title>, 18 June 1850.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1850-06-15'>Saturday, June 15, 1850.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
[Pursuant to call, meeting convenes at courthouse to discuss proposal 
of Congressional Committee of Thirteen. John T. Stuart, Gov. Metcalfe 
of Kentucky, and others address meeting. Resolutions favoring 
recommendations of committee are unanimously adopted.]
</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1850-06-18'>Tuesday, June 18, 1850.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln writes and signs a bill of complaint for John M. Burkhardt and others in <name type='case' key='L02844'>Burkhardt et al. v. Browne et al.</name>, a Sangamon County Circuit Court case.
<bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
["A. Lincoln, esq., Wm. Brown, esq., and Richard Yates," says Peoria 
Press, "are the whig candidates in the 7th district. The democrats 
appear to unite on Hon. T. L. Harris, the present able representative 
in that district. After beating Judge Logan so badly, the Major will 
have but little difficulty in overcoming any other whig in his 
district." Clipped in Register.]
</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1850-06-19'>Wednesday, June 19, 1850.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln and Logan insert notice of pending suit of <name type='case' key='L02844'>Burkhardt et al. v. Browne et al.</name> in Illinois Journal.
</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1850-06-27'>Thursday, June 27, 1850.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes to fellow
  attorney Richard S. Thomas, of Virginia, Illinois, and advises him on ways "to
  bring...a suit on the bond," particularly as it pertains to "grocery keepers."
  Lincoln reveals details about his correspondence-filing system as he confesses,
  "I am ashamed of not sooner answering your letter, herewith returned; and, my
  only appologies are, first, that I have been very busy in the U.S. court; and
  second, that when I received the letter I put it in my old hat, and buying a
  new one the next day, the old one was set aside, and so, the letter lost sight
  of for a time." <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%3A133' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Richard S. Thomas</xref>, 27 June 1850,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:80-81.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1850-06-30'>Sunday, June
  30, 1850.</date> 
            <place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place> to <place key='39.3833, -87.6833' teiForm='name'>Marshall, IL</place>.
  </dateline>
      </div2>