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<date value='1851-07-01'>Tuesday, July 1, 1851.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
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Lincoln writes chancery bill to foreclose in <name type='case' key='L04818'>Webster & Hickox v. Goodman & McAtee</name>.
<bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
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He buys $1.25 pocket knife.
<bibl default='NO'>Irwin Journal.</bibl>
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<date value='1851-07-04'>Friday, July 4, 1851.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
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Lincoln writes to Andrew McCallen: "I have news from Ottawa, that we <uLine>win</uLine> our Galatin & Saline county case. As the dutch Justice said, when he married folks 'Now, vere ish my hundred tollars?' " He refers to <name type='case' key='L00933'>People ex rel. Stephenson
v. Marshall</name>.
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<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A163' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Andrew McCallen</xref>, 4 July 1851, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:106.</bibl>
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<date value='1851-07-05'>Saturday, July 5, 1851.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
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Lincoln writes sheriff's return in <name type='case' key='L02583'>Baker v. Moffett & Allen</name>.
<bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
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<date value='1851-07-07'>Monday, July 7, 1851.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
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Lincoln buys 50¢ pair of suspenders.
<bibl default='NO'>Irwin Journal.</bibl>
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[U.S. Circuit Court convenes at Springfield, Judge McLean presiding.
Judge Drummond has not arrived.
<bibl default='NO'>Register, 8 July 1851.</bibl>]
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<date value='1851-07-08'>Tuesday, July 8, 1851.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
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[Federal Courts are both in session at Springfield, Judge Drummond
having arrived.
<bibl default='NO'>
<title>Illinois Journal</title>, 9 July 1851.</bibl>]
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<date value='1851-07-10'>Thursday, July 10, 1851.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
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"U.S. Circuit Court—Nearly one hundred causes were continued on
Thursday. This has disposed of the principal business on the docket.
All of the important patent cases were continued."
<bibl default='NO'>Register, 12 July 1851.</bibl>
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Lincoln is engaged in these patent cases, similar to Hoyt case tried
in Chicago in July 1850.
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<date value='1851-07-19'>Saturday, July 19, 1851.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield,
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<p> After visit to telegraph office, Lincoln writes to
Martin about telegram pertaining to Sangamon & Alton cases which Martin
claims was sent from Springfield office. "The operator . . . declares that no
such despach ever went from this office—at least, never in . . . February
or March last. He then got up a correspondence with the operator at Alton, who
. . . says . . . no such despach was ever, received there." <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%3A164' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
Lincoln to William Martin</xref>, 19 July 1851, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:106.</bibl>
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<date value='1851-07-21'>Monday, July 21, 1851.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
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Lincoln fills out and signs for Lincoln & Herndon printed form notice of commission to take depositions in <name type='case' key='L02619'>Alton & Sangamon RR v. Klein</name>, and files in Sangamon Circuit Court. Logan, for defendant, acknowledges receipt of notice.
<bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
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<date value='1851-07-25'>Friday, July 25, 1851.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
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Lincoln receives letter from William Martin on telegram mystery.
<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%3A166' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to William Martin</xref>, 26 July 1851, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:107.</bibl>
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<person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> buys $1.85 "mdse" from John Williams & Co.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 145.</bibl>
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<date value='1851-07-26'>Saturday, July 26, 1851.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
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Lincoln again visits telegraph office. This time he finds despatch in
question, dated January 25, 1851. Operator claims, however, that it
is not in handwriting of man who was operator at that time. Lincoln
then takes James L. Lamb to see it. Lamb says he believes he knows
whose handwriting it is.
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<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A166' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to William Martin</xref>, 26 July 1851, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:107.</bibl>
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<date value='1851-07-31'>Thursday, July 31, 1851.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
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Still at work on Sangamon & Alton cases, Lincoln writes to
Martin: "The present operator here says, that the operator who was
here on Jany. 25. 1851 is C. P. Rosser; and that he has no knowledge
of his present whereabouts. . . . This is all I can learn."
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<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A167' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to William Martin</xref>, 31 July 1851, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:107.</bibl>
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