<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1853-11-01'>Tuesday, November 1, 1853.</date>
            <place key='40.1167, -87.6167' teiForm='name'>Danville, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
            <name type='case' key='L02049'>Taylor &amp; Taylor v. People &amp; Hickman</name> is dismissed on motion of Lincoln and Lamon, complainants' attorney. In <name type='case' key='L02062'>Wilson v. Wilson</name>, divorce is granted on defendant's cross bill, which Lincoln writes. Attorneys are Davis for complainant and Lincoln and Lamon for Mrs. Wilson, defendant.
<bibl default='NO'>Record; Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1853-11-02'>Wednesday, November 2, 1853.</date>
            <place key='40.1167, -87.6167' teiForm='name'>Danville, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln writes indictment in <name type='case' key='L01996'>People v. Morgan &amp; Craig</name>, charged with setting prairie fire. He signs for Leonard Swett. He also writes and signs, for Swett, indictment for riot of John Armstrong, Reuben Bloomfield, William L. Miner, and William 
Tremble.
<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1853-11-03'>Thursday, November 3, 1853.</date>
            <place key='40.1167, -87.6167' teiForm='name'>Danville, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Defendants default in <name type='case' key='L01935'>Lamon v. Lamon et al.</name>, bill for specific performance. Lincoln &amp; Lamon are attorneys for complainant, George Lamon. Signing "Lincoln &amp; Lamon," Lincoln writes and files replication in <name type='case'>Wyatt v. 
Leonard</name>.
<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
He writes and files amended bill in <name type='case' key='L01930'>Knight v. Carter et al.</name>
            <bibl default='NO'>Original owned by King Hostick, Springfield, Ill.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1853-11-04'>Friday, November 4, 1853.</date>
            <place key='40.1167, -87.6167' teiForm='name'>Danville, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln writes bill in chancery in <name type='case' key='L03864'>Lewis et al. v. Lewis et al.</name>, Sangamon Circuit Court case, signing Lincoln &amp; Herndon &amp; E. Herndon.
<bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1853-11-06'>Sunday, November 6, 1853.</date>
            <place key='40.1167, -87.6167' teiForm='name'>Danville, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
[<person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> buys "5 yds. Lining @ .70" at John Williams' store.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 146.</bibl>]
</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1853-11-08'>Tuesday, November 8, 1853.</date>
            <place key='39.4000, -88.7833' teiForm='name'>Shelbyville, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln takes deposition of Anthony Thornton in Oldham &amp; 
Hemingway suit. Deponent is "certain the defendant Lincoln has never 
had anything to do with the collection of the note of W. F. Thornton 
and Basye, debtors of Oldham, Todd &amp; Co."
<bibl default='NO'>William H. Townsend, <title>Abraham Lincoln, Defendant: Lincoln's Most Interesting Lawsuit</title> (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1923), 28-30.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1853-11-10'>Thursday, November 10, 1853.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln arrives home after more than nine weeks on circuit.
<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%3A241' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Lewis M. Hays</xref>, 11 November 1849, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:206.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1853-11-11'>Friday, November 11, 1853.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln writes to L. M. Hays: "Inclosed is the draft for one hundred 
dollars. Absence from home prevented my receiving your letter of the 
12th October until yesterday." He writes to T. J. Turner: "Judge 
Logan, Kemper's attorney, . . . consents to the within named clerk, 
taking the deposition . . . on condition that, if you can, you will 
notify Kemper's lawyer there, of the time &amp; place."
<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%3A241' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Lewis M. Hays</xref>, 11 November 1853, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:206; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A242' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Thomas J. Turner</xref>, 11 November 1853, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:206.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1853-11-12'>Saturday, November 12, 1853.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Lincoln takes depositions of
  Ninian W. Edwards and Eliphalet B. Hawley in Oldham &amp; Hemingway suit. Both
  swear that so far as they know, neither they nor any member of the firm of
  Rankin &amp; Edwards ever paid Lincoln "any money belonging to said Oldham,
  Todd &amp; Co. on any account whatever." <bibl default='NO'>William H. Townsend,
  <title>Abraham Lincoln, Defendant: Lincoln's Most Interesting Lawsuit</title>
  (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1923), 30-32.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1853-11-14'>Monday, November 14, 1853.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
[First Grand Division of Supreme Court begins its session at Mt. Vernon.]
</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1853-11-15'>Tuesday, November 15, 1853.</date>
            <place key='40.0167, -90.4167' teiForm='name'>Beardstown, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln obtains deposition of H. E. Dummer stating that R. S. Todd 
placed in his hands for collection debt of $134.21 owed by Robert 
Lindsey to Oldham, Todd &amp; Co., that he sued and obtained judgment 
in Cass Circuit Court October 12, 1841, and finally in 1845 collected 
$50 on judgment, which he paid to Lincoln in 1846. R. S. Todd 
directed Lincoln to retain this "as his own." Faced with this 
evidence, Kentucky plaintiffs dismiss suit at next term of Fayette 
County Court.
<bibl default='NO'>William H. Townsend, <title>Abraham Lincoln, Defendant: Lincoln's Most Interesting Lawsuit</title> (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1923), 33; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A254' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to George B. Kinkead</xref>, 31 March 1854, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:216-17.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1853-11-17'>Thursday, November 17, 1853.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln writes to H. E. Dummer: "While I was at Beardstown, I forgot 
to tell you that Wm. Butler says if you will give him charge, and 
full discretion, of a claim in your hands, against George G. Grubb . 
. . he knows how, and can, and will make something out of it for you. 
Please write him."
<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%3A243' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Henry E. Dummer</xref>, 17 November 1853, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:206-7.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1853-11-18'>Friday, November 18, 1853.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln withdraws $400 from his account in Springfield Marine and 
Fire Insurance Company.
<bibl default='NO'>Marine Bank Ledger.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1853-11-21'>Monday, November 21, 1853.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Five of Lincoln &amp; Herndon's cases are called as Sangamon Circuit Court begins its fall term. In two replevin suits&#8212;<name type='case' key='L03422'>Henderson v. Warfield</name>, and <name type='case' key='L04503'>Scott v. Cannon</name>&#8212;agreed judgments are entered for plaintiffs, their clients. <name type='case' key='L04750'>Taft et al. v. Taft et al.</name>, chancery case in which they represent complainants, is dismissed by agreement. Pleas are filed in other cases.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1853-11-22'>Tuesday, November 22, 1853.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln &amp; Herndon have busy day with 17 cases before court. They 
dismiss seven and win three by default. One is dismissed by their 
opponents. Pleas are filed and motions entered in others.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1853-11-23'>Wednesday, November 23, 1853.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Another busy day in court with 12 Lincoln &amp; Herndon cases on docket. In <name type='case' key='L02749'>Branch v. Sangamon County, Illinois</name>, jury finds for plaintiff, their client, and assesses his damages at $140. They lose <name type='case' key='L04039'>Martin for use of Martin &amp; Fox v. Stafford</name>, assumpsit, when court finds for plaintiff in amount of $449.35. In <name type='case' key='L04714'>Williamson v. Williamson</name>, divorce, their bill is taken for confessed.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1853-11-25'>Friday, November 25, 1853.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
In <name type='case' key='L03137'>Dodge v. Johnson</name>, action on covenant, demurrer filed by defendants is argued and sustained. Lincoln &amp; Herndon are attorneys for plaintiff. In <name type='case' key='L04713'>Waddell v. Waddell</name>, their client, complainant, is granted divorce and custody of children on ground of his wife's adultery.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1853-11-26'>Saturday, November 26, 1853.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Two related cases, 
  <name type='case' key='L03833'>Jones v. Lowry, Lamb &amp; Co.</name>, and 
  <name type='case' key='L03835'>Lowry, Lamb &amp; Co. v. Jones</name>, are
  referred to arbitrators. Lincoln &amp; Herndon are Jones' attorneys. Pleas are
  filed in <name type='case' key='L04014'>McGraw v. Adams et al.</name> and 
  <name type='case'>James Shields v. Watson et al.</name>, in both of which they
  are attorneys for plaintiff. <bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1853-11-28'>Monday, November 28, 1853.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln &amp; Herndon's client, Elizabeth Walker, complainant in <name type='case' key='L04865'>Walker v. Walker</name>, is granted divorce on ground of desertion. Lincoln &amp; Herndon dismiss <name type='case' key='L03094'>Collins v. Morgan</name>, appeal. Six other cases are called but none comes to trial. Logan &amp; Lincoln file appeal to Supreme Court in <name type='case' key='L03594'>D. &amp; I. P. Spear v. Humphreys</name>, tried in Sangamon Circuit Court March 26, 1853.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1853-11-29'>Tuesday, November 29, 1853.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln &amp; Herndon win assumpsit suit, <name type='case' key='L03703'>Johnson v. McMullen</name>, when jury finds for plaintiff in amount of $200. In <name type='case' key='L04714'>Williamson v. Williamson</name> their client is granted divorce because of husband's habitual drunkenness. In <name type='case' key='L03909'>Lovelock v. Sangamon County</name>, appeal, before court June 18, 1853, their client is awarded $50 damages. Motions or pleas are filed in three other cases.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1853-11-30'>Wednesday, November 30, 1853.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>. </dateline>
         <p> On Lincoln &amp; Herndon's motion, plaintiff in <name type='case' key='L04296'>Popper v.
     Patton et al.</name> is ruled to file bond for costs. In <name type='case' key='L03661'>Hazlett
     v. Drennan et al.</name> they move appointment of guardian <ital>ad litem</ital> for infant
    defendants. On their motion, bill is taken for confessed as to adult defendants. Third case is
    continued. <bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>