<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1853-02-01'>Tuesday, February 1, 1853.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln substitutes for defendant's attorney, Ballance of Peoria, in <name type='case' key='L02333'>Forsyth v. Barton</name> in U.S. Circuit Court.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1853-02-02'>Wednesday, February 2, 1853.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln and Scates lose <name type='case' key='L00490'>Casey v. Casey</name>, before Supreme Court January 6, 1853, January 7, 1853, January 8, 1853, January 9, 1853, when court decides that complainant fraudulently purchased defendant's interest in estate for $75, knowing it to be worth $1,294.47. Judgment for defendant, rendered by lower court, is affirmed.
<bibl default='NO'>Record; 14 Ill. 112-28.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln buys blankets, muslin, tape, and buttons ($10.51) 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='1853-02-03'>Thursday, February 3, 1853.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln writes part of Robert J. Blackwell's affidavit for <name type='case' key='L03754'>Grubb v. John Frink &amp; Co.</name>, and has it sworn before Judge Treat. He writes and signs notice that depositions of R. C. Hall and William Dana will be taken for case.
<bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1853-02-04'>Friday, February 4, 1853.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln writes bill granting coal mining charter to John A. Rockwell 
and associates.
<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%3A212' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Bill Introduced in Illinois Legislature to Incorporate the Vermillion Coal and Manufacturing Company</xref>, 5 February 1853, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:189-90; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A214' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to John A. Rockwell</xref>, 15 February 1853, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:190-91.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1853-02-05'>Saturday, February 5, 1853.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Coal mining charter is introduced in Senate.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Senate Journal</title>; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A212' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Bill Introduced in Illinois Legislature to Incorporate the Vermillion Coal and Manufacturing Company</xref>, 5 February 1853, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:189-90.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1853-02-07'>Monday, February 7, 1853.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield,
  IL</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes and swears his own affidavit in 
  <name type='case' key='L03754'>Grubb v. John Frink &amp; Co.</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='1853-02-08'>Tuesday, February 8, 1853.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln buys $2.06 in merchandise.
<bibl default='NO'>Irwin Ledger.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1853-02-09'>Wednesday, February 9, 1853.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln's coal mining charter passes Senate 21 to 1.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Senate Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln buys quilt, cloth, and thread ($8.07) 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='1853-02-11'>Friday, February 11, 1853.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
House passes&#8212;56-2&#8212;bill making town of Lincoln county seat 
of Logan County in place of Mt. Pulaski. Bill is introduced in 
Senate. Latham and Hickox, proprietors of town, who named it after 
Lincoln, retained him to see to drawing of bill and its passage by 
legislature.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House and Senate Journals</title>; Lawrence B. Stringer, ed., <title>History of Logan County</title>, 2 vols. (Chicago: Pioneer Publishing Co., 1911), 1:221.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1853-02-12'>Saturday, February 12, 1853.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Senate unanimously passes bill making town of Lincoln Logan County seat.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House and Senate Journals</title>; Lawrence B. Stringer, ed., <title>History of Logan County</title>, 2 vols. (Chicago: Pioneer Publishing Co., 1911), 1:221.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1853-02-14'>Monday, February 14, 1853.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln writes to Solon Cumins of Grand Detour about "Mr. Adams' 
business," in U.S. Court. "I shall be very glad if you will 
ascertain, and put down in writing, exactly what Bradshaw will swear, 
on the question of Denny having been paid for the land with Adams' 
money, &amp; also, as to whether Adams, when he took the deed, had 
any knowledge of Kemper's judgment against Bradshaw."
<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%3A213' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Solon Cumins</xref>, 14 February 1853, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:190.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
[Legislature adjourns.]
</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1853-02-15'>Tuesday, February 15, 1853.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln writes to John A. Rockwell for whom he attempted to secure 
coal mining charter. It "was lost for want of time. No one was 
opposed to it, but every one was much more anxious about some other 
Bill. . . . If you continue to desire it, I will get it passed at the 
next Session&#8212;it being borne in mind that at a 
<uLine>called</uLine> Session the door may not be opened for such 
business."
<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%3A214' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to John A. Rockwell</xref>, 15 February 1853, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:190-91.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1853-02-21'>Monday, February 21, 1853.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln buys $1.25 fork 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='1853-02-23'>Wednesday, February 23, 1853.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln writes and signs defendants' demurrer in <name type='case' key='L03741'>Kelly v. Wells &amp; Wells</name>.
<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1853-02-24'>Thursday, February 24, 1853.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln &amp; Herndon file bill of complaint for Levi Cantrall, plaintiff, in <name type='case' key='L03009'>Cantrall, conservator of Cantrall v. Cantrall et al.</name> in Sangamon Circuit Court. Complainant prays permission of court to sell real estate belonging to his son, defendant, to help pay cost of his maintenance.
<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1853-02-26'>Saturday, February 26, 1853.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln writes two legal forms for taking deposition in <name type='case' key='L04851'>Wallace v. Witmer &amp; Langford</name>, Sangamon Circuit Court case.
<bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>