<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1854-04-01'>Saturday, April 1, 1854.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
In response to letter from Jesse Lincoln, Tennessee relative, Lincoln 
writes long letter relating family history. "As you have supposed, I 
am the grandson of your uncle Abraham; and the story of his death by 
the Indians, and of Uncle Mordecai, then fourteen years old, killing 
one of the Indians, is the legend more strongly than all others 
imprinted upon my mind and memory."
<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%3A255' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Jesse Lincoln</xref>, 1 April 1854, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:217-18.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1854-04-03'>Monday, April 3, 1854.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
[Logan Circuit Court is in session at Lincoln.]
</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1854-04-04'>Tuesday, April 4, 1854.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
[While no record of Lincoln's presence in Springfield on this day 
exists, he is doubtless home voting in city election in which his 
partner, William H. Herndon, is elected mayor.]
</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1854-04-05'>Wednesday, April 5, 1854.</date>
            <place key='40.1333, -89.3500' teiForm='name'>Lincoln, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Parks, Logan, Lincoln &amp; Herndon, representing defendant, file their answer in <name type='case' key='L00965'>Turley et al. v. Logan County, Illinois</name>. (This case, originally filed December 5, 1853, was brought by principal property owners of town of Mt. Pulaski, who 
claimed that county seat had been illegally moved to Lincoln.) In their answer, defendant's attorneys claim location act was regularly passed.
<bibl default='NO'>Copy of Record, Sup. Ct. Files.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1854-04-06'>Thursday, April 6, 1854.</date>
            <place key='40.1333, -89.3500' teiForm='name'>Lincoln, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
In <name type='case' key='L00965'>Turley et al. v. Logan County, Illinois</name>, defendant files affidavit of Isaac R. Diller, clerk of House of Representatives.
<bibl default='NO'>Copy of Record, Sup. Ct. Files.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1854-04-07'>Friday, April 7, 1854.</date>
            <place key='40.1333, -89.3500' teiForm='name'>Lincoln, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
            <name type='case' key='L00965'>Turley et al. v. Logan County, Illinois</name> is again before court. Defendant's attorneys move that injunction, granted when case was first filed, be dissolved, and court so orders. Complainants file their replication to answer of defendants, and case is continued.
<bibl default='NO'>Copy of Record, Sup. Ct. Files.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln writes and signs receipt to Mrs. Lucy Scroggin for $50, 
paying all fees due to date. John T. Stuart also signs.
<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1854-04-10'>Monday, April 10, 1854.</date>
            <place key='40.4833, -88.9833' teiForm='name'>Bloomington, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln attends spring term of McLean Circuit Court. At this time, 
and at fall term, he attends to "a great variety of little business" 
for Illinois Central Railroad Co.
<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%3A279' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Mason Brayman</xref>, 23 September 1854, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:233-34.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1854-04-11'>Tuesday, April 11, 1854.</date>
            <place key='40.4833, -88.9833' teiForm='name'>Bloomington, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln represents plaintiff in <name type='case' key='L01696'>Woodworth v. Cox</name>, action in debt. Gridley, for defendant, moves to dismiss suit for want of bond for costs. When papers are examined, bond for costs is found among them, and Gridley withdraws motion. In two cases 
against Illinois Central, Lincoln moves court to overrule plaintiff's depositions, which is done.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1854-04-12'>Wednesday, April 12, 1854.</date> 
            <place key='40.4833, -88.9833' teiForm='name'>Bloomington,
  IL</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Gridley agrees that judgment be entered against his
  client for $70.67 debt and $39.82 damages in Woodworth case. In 
  <name type='case' key='L01657'>Jackson v. Miller</name> jury returns verdict
  for plaintiff and assesses his damages at $250. Lincoln and Orme are
  plaintiff's attorneys. <bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> In 
  <name type='case' key='L01634'>Buck v. Allin</name>, action in debt, Lincoln
  writes defendant's plea. <bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress,
  Washington, DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1854-04-13'>Thursday, April 13, 1854.</date>
            <place key='40.4833, -88.9833' teiForm='name'>Bloomington, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
In <name type='case' key='L01634'>Buck v. Allin</name>, plaintiff dismisses suit.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1854-04-14'>Friday, April 14, 1854.</date>
            <place key='40.4833, -88.9833' teiForm='name'>Bloomington, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
            <name type='case' key='L01685'>Sneed v. Illinois Central RR</name> comes to trial, with Lincoln appearing for company. Jury finds in favor of defendant.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1854-04-17'>Monday, April 17, 1854.</date>
            <place key='40.4833, -88.9833' teiForm='name'>Bloomington, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Jury is called in another Illinois Central case, but plaintiff drops 
suit and case is dismissed.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1854-04-20'>Thursday, April 20, 1854.</date>
            <place key='40.4833, -88.9833' teiForm='name'>Bloomington, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
One of Lincoln's "great variety of little business" is <name type='case' key='L01627'>Bishop v. Illinois Central RR</name>, trespass. Jury returns verdict for plaintiff and assesses his damages at $583. Holmes, Lincoln, and Stuart are for plaintiff.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1854-04-21'>Friday, April 21, 1854.</date>
            <place key='40.4833, -88.9833' teiForm='name'>Bloomington, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln is solicitor of another railroad, Chicago &amp; Mississippi, 
in suit called against McLean County Bank and A. Gridley, 
administrator. Gridley files separate answer to complaint, and 
Lincoln agrees that administrator's answer stand as bank's answer. 
Lincoln files "replication to the said answer," and case is continued.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1854-04-22'>Saturday, April 22, 1854.</date>
            <place key='40.4833, -88.9833' teiForm='name'>Bloomington, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln and Scott represent four defendants in case involving 
forfeited recognizance. On behalf of one of defendants they move to 
quash writ of scire facias, whereupon attorney for People dismisses 
writ. For another defendant they plead that no such record as writ 
specifies exists. Court examines record, finds for People, and orders 
execution for $500 against Lincoln's client.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1854-04-24'>Monday, April 24, 1854.</date>
            <place key='40.4833, -88.9833' teiForm='name'>Bloomington, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
[Woodford Circuit Court convenes at Metamora, and remains in session all week.]
</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1854-04-25'>Tuesday, April 25, 1854.</date>
            <place key='40.7833, -89.3500' teiForm='name'>Metamora, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln, representing defendant, continues <name type='case' key='L01780'>Jackson v. Whorrall</name> on affidavit of his client and at his costs.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln, associated with John Clark for defense in <name type='case' key='L01835'>Willard v. Summers</name>, writes defendant's plea.
<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1854-04-26'>Wednesday, April 26, 1854.</date>
            <place key='40.7833, -89.3500' teiForm='name'>Metamora, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln has three cases in court. In <name type='case'>Coventry v. Warwick Banking Co.</name>, he argues demurrer. In <name type='case' key='L01768'>Gingrich v. Evans et al.</name>, he and Clark obtain judgment of $665.47. <name type='case' key='L01793'>Moore v. Swarens</name>, in which he is one of plaintiff's four attorneys, goes to jury which finds for plaintiff and assesses his damages at one cent. In <name type='case' key='L01748'>Coventry &amp; Warwickshire Banking v. Whorrall</name>, trespass, Purple and Sanger for plaintiff, Lincoln for defense, Lincoln files demurrer, which court partly sustains, and case is continued.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>