January 26, 1852

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            <date value='1852-01-26'>Monday, January 26, 1852.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
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Lincoln and others sign call for meeting to invite Louis Kossuth to 
stop at Springfield on his way from Indianapolis to St. Louis. 
Meeting is held and Lincoln appointed to committee of 13 which is 
instructed to request city council to extend invitation.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Illinois Journal</title>, 30 January 1852; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A187' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Call for Kossuth Meeting</xref>, 26 January 1852, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:118.</bibl>
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Lincoln writes to O. H. Browning about case of <name type='case' key='L02310'>Smith v. Gardner</name>, decided against him on two points, which he states.
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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%3A186' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Orville H. Browning</xref>, 26 January 1852, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:117-18.</bibl>
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