<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1852-09-01'>Wednesday, September 1, 1852.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
In <name type='case' key='L02796'>Bruce v. Mallory</name>, appeal, jury is waived and court finds for defendant. Lincoln and Boyd are plaintiff's attorneys. Weer and Ferguson, attorneys for defense in <name type='case' key='L03414'>Gilman et al. v. Hamilton et al.</name>, are given leave to answer tomorrow. Lincoln and Smith are complainants' attorneys.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln has his carriage repaired ($7.25) at Lewis' shop.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Obed Lewis Account Books</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1852-09-02'>Thursday, September 2, 1852.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Weer and Ferguson file answer of defendants in <name type='case' key='L03414'>Gilman et al. v. Hamilton et al.</name>
            <bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln writes bill of exceptions, which T. L. Dickey signs, and jury instructions in <name type='case' key='L02617'>Carpenter v. Alton &amp; Sangamon RR</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='1852-09-03'>Friday, September 3, 1852.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Some of defendants in <name type='case' key='L03414'>Gilman et al. v. Hamilton et al.</name> default, and Lincoln and Smith's bill is taken for confessed against them. Case is submitted to Judge Davis to be decided during vacation with both sides privileged to submit arguments in writing and appeal to Supreme Court. In <name type='case' key='L04031'>McDonald v. Allen</name>, action in debt, Lincoln &amp; Herndon file defendant's affidavit and secure continuance.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1852-09-04'>Saturday, September 4, 1852.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
In <name type='case' key='L04382'>Riggs &amp; Levering v. Murray &amp; Hunt</name>, assumpsit, Lincoln &amp; Herndon withdraw plea of defendant Hunt.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln, defendant's attorney in <name type='case' key='L00630'>People v. Loe</name>, murder, writes Moses Loe's motion for change of venue from Sangamon County.
<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1852-09-06'>Monday, September 6, 1852.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
            <name type='case' key='L04662'>Tilford v. Montgomery</name>, appeal, is tried before court, which finds for plaintiff, Lincoln &amp; Herndon's client, $14.25 and costs. Jury is also waived in <name type='case' key='L04382'>Riggs &amp; Levering v. Murray &amp; Hunt</name>, and court finds for plaintiff in sum of $678.28. Lincoln &amp; Herndon are attorneys for defendant. Lincoln is foreman of jury in <name type='case' key='L03372'>H. W. Derby &amp; Co. v. Cary</name>, which finds for plaintiff and awards damages of $760.48. Entitled to $1 for jury duty, Lincoln declines to collect. Herndon is losing defense attorney.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1852-09-08'>Wednesday, September 8, 1852.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln writes court order in <name type='case' key='L03722'>Jones v. Jones</name>, divorce case.
<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1852-09-09'>Thursday, September 9, 1852.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
            <name type='case' key='L04342'>Potts v. May et al.</name>, chancery, is continued on 
complainant's motion.
<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1852-09-14'>Tuesday, September 14, 1852.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
[Woodford Circuit Court case of <name type='case' key='L01744'>Bryant v. Pool</name>, Gridley and Lincoln for defense, is continued on application of defendant's counsel.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>]
</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1852-09-15'>Wednesday, September 15, 1852.</date> 
            <place key='40.5667, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Pekin, IL</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Tazewell Circuit Court convenes. On
  motion of Lincoln, Jones, and Saltonstall, for defendant, case of 
  <name type='case' key='L01101'>Crabb and Walls v. Wallace</name>, stricken from
  docket April 14, 1852, is reinstated and plaintiffs are ruled to file
  declaration. (See May 2, 1853.) Case is replevin suit. Prettyman is attorney
  for plaintiffs. <bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1852-09-16'>Thursday, September 16, 1852.</date>
            <place key='40.5667, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Pekin, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
In <name type='case' key='L01058'>Anthony v. Damerell</name>, defendant defaults and appeal is dismissed with $3.09 damages to appellee whom Lincoln represents. In <name type='case'>Hall v. Perkins</name>, Lincoln files plaintiff's affidavit for continuance because of absence of material witness.
<bibl default='NO'>Record; Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1852-09-17'>Friday, September 17, 1852.</date>
            <place key='40.5667, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Pekin, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Pekin and Peoria. Erastus Briggs, agent <name type='case' key='L01252'>Harris Lime Rock Co. v. Harris</name>, attachment case, Lincoln for plaintiff, is "continued for publication" on his motion.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Concluding his court work, Lincoln goes to Peoria in evening to make 
campaign speech. "The Court House not being able to hold the throng, 
the speech was made outdoors&#8212;We are informed that it was a most 
capital speech, and told," reports Illinois Journal (September 22, 
1852).
<bibl default='NO'>Peoria Democratic Press, (22 September 1852)</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
,however, describes speech as "one of the most miserable failures we 
ever witnessed."
<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%3A199' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Speech at Peoria, Illinois</xref>, 17 September 1852, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:158-59.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1852-09-18'>Saturday, September 18, 1852.</date>
            <place key='40.5667, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Pekin, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Back in court, Lincoln secures decree of foreclosure in <name type='case' key='L01261'>Hamilton v. Haines et al.</name> when defendants default. In <name type='case' key='L01093'>Davis v. Hodge</name>, appeal, Lincoln and Parker for plaintiff suffer nonsuit.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
            <name type='case' key='L01172'>Smith v. Gaines</name>, tresspass, Saltonstall and Lincoln for plaintiff, is continued by agreement.
<bibl default='NO'>Original owned by King Hostick, Springfield, lll.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1852-09-20'>Monday, September 20, 1852.</date>
            <place key='40.5667, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Pekin, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
"Our citizens were favored with a political address from Hon. David 
L. Gregg. . . . Mr. Gregg took the hide completely off that 'old 
coon,' whiggery, and buried its carcass so deep in the 'ashes of 
despair,' that the resurrection trump which Mr. Lincoln (who 
attempted to follow Mr. Gregg) attempted to sound, could not impart 
hearing into its ears, or give vitality to its prostrate and hidden 
carcass."
<bibl default='NO'>Pekin Reveille, in Register, 25 September 1852.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1852-09-21'>Tuesday, September 21, 1852.</date>
            <place key='40.5667, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Pekin, IL</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Lincoln loses <name type='case' key='L01208'>Eggleston v. Perkins</name>, scire facias to
    revive judgment, when jury finds for plaintiff in amount of $110.45. Plaintiffs in <name type='case' key='L01119'>People v. Hawley</name>, indictment for obstructing road, enter
     <ital>nolle prosequi</ital>. Lincoln and Haines are defendant's attorneys. <bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1852-09-22'>Wednesday, September 22, 1852.</date>
            <place key='40.5667, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Pekin, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
            <name type='case' key='L01181'>Atchison for use of Allen v. Pekin, Illinois</name>, and <name type='case' key='L01259'>Hamilton v. Pekin, Illinois</name>, continued at Apr. term, are again continued. (See May 3, 1853.)
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1852-09-23'>Thursday, September 23, 1852.</date>
            <place key='40.7833, -89.3500' teiForm='name'>Metamora, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Woodford Circuit Court begins fall term. Lincoln wins appeal, <name type='case' key='L01785'>Marteny v. McCloud</name>, when jury awards plaintiff $10. <name type='case'>Troster v. Brown</name>, trespass, Lincoln for defendant, is continued.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1852-09-24'>Friday, September 24, 1852.</date> 
            <place key='40.7833, -89.3500' teiForm='name'>Metamora,
  IL</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Lincoln and Peters win action for debt, 
  <name type='case' key='L01808'>People for use of Woodford County, Illinois v.
  Dale</name>, when jury finds for defendant. Plaintiff's motion for new trial is
  allowed. In <name type='case' key='L01798'>Parke v. McMannus</name>, appeal,
  agreed judgment is entered for plaintiff for $30. Lincoln and Thorpe represent
  defendant. <name type='case' key='L01768'>Gingrich v. Evans et al.</name>,
  trespass, Lincoln for plaintiff, is continued at defendant's cost with leave to
  file bill of discovery by January 1, 1853. <bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p>
  Lincoln writes plaintiff's affidavit in <name type='case' key='L01779'>Hoshor
  v. Spring &amp; Lewis</name>. <bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1852-09-25'>Saturday, September 25, 1852.</date>
            <place key='40.7833, -89.3500' teiForm='name'>Metamora, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln loses <name type='case' key='L01812'>Ramsey v. Marteny</name>, trespass, when jury awards plaintiff $13 and costs. Purple and Sanger are plaintiff's attorneys. Lincoln files plaintiff's affidavit in <name type='case' key='L01779'>Hoshor v. Spring &amp; Lewis</name>, and case is continued.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
He writes list of questions for witnesses in <name type='case' key='L01744'>Bryant v. Pool</name>, signing for Gridley, defense attorney.
<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1852-09-27'>Monday, September 27, 1852.</date>
            <place key='40.4833, -88.9833' teiForm='name'>Bloomington, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
McLean Circuit Court convenes. In <name type='case' key='L01632'>Brown et al. v. Sanford &amp; Booth</name>, defendants default and plaintiffs are awarded 
$1,239.84 damages.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln writes to Charles R. Welles, administrator of estate from 
which William Florville, Negro barber of Springfield, bought lots. 
Florville failed to have purchase recorded, and lost deed. To "get 
the thing fixed up," Lincoln needs Welles' signature on writ.
<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%3A200' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Charles R. Welles</xref>, 27 September 1852, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:159.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1852-09-28'>Tuesday, September 28, 1852.</date>
            <place key='40.4833, -88.9833' teiForm='name'>Bloomington, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln wins case for his old friend David Pantier, defendant in <name type='case' key='L01646'>Flagg and Ewing v. Pantier</name>, assumpsit for $250 damages. Court hears evidence and instructs jury on law, whereupon plaintiffs enter nonsuit.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln writes and signs defendant's plea and agreement on evidence.
<bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1852-09-30'>Thursday, September 30, 1852.</date>
            <place key='40.4833, -88.9833' teiForm='name'>Bloomington, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln writes answer of John Shough, garnishee in <name type='case' key='L01632'>Brown et al. v. Sanford &amp; Booth</name>. <name type='case' key='L01687'>Stern &amp; Friedman v. Sawyer</name>, continued from spring term, is won by plaintiff, Lincoln and Fell, attorneys, when jury is called, defendant defaults, and jury awards $99.35 and costs.
<bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC; Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>