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         <dateline>
            <date value='1854-06-01'>Thursday, June 1, 1854.</date>
            <place key='40.1167, -87.6167' teiForm='name'>Danville, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Divorce case&#8212;<name type='case' key='L01914'>George Helmick v. Eliza Helmick</name>&#8212;constitutes Lincoln's only court work. Complainant dismisses suit at his own costs. Lincoln alone appears for complainant. He writes and signs, for Davis, Lincoln, and Lamon, 
defendant's plea in <name type='case'>Taylor v. Leonard</name>.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
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         <dateline>
            <date value='1854-06-02'>Friday, June 2, 1854.</date>
            <place key='40.1167, -87.6167' teiForm='name'>Danville, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Two of Lincoln's cases are continued. Third&#8212;<name type='case' key='L01861'>Black et al. v. Black et al.</name>, partition suit&#8212;is heard "upon motion of petitioners by Lincoln &amp; 
Lamon their solicitors." Defendants default, and commissioners are appointed. In <name type='case' key='L01932'>Lamm v. Bachop</name>, Lincoln writes and files pleas, signing Davis, Lincoln &amp; Lamon. He writes order of court, which Judge Davis signs, in <name type='case'>Murphy v. Pearson</name>, chancery.
<bibl default='NO'>Record; File; Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1854-06-03'>Saturday, June 3, 1854.</date>
            <place key='40.1167, -87.6167' teiForm='name'>Danville, IL</place> to <place key='40.1000, -88.2000' teiForm='name'>Urbana, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Vermilion Circuit Court having adjourned, one of Lincoln's future 
biographers sees him for first time. Henry C. Whitney passes Lincoln, 
Davis, Swett, and D. B. Campbell on state road between Danville and 
Urbana. Traveling in two-seated spring wagon, they are in front of 
"Bailey," country tavern near county line, when he encounters them.
<bibl default='NO'>Henry C. Whitney, <title>Life on the Circuit with Lincoln</title> (Boston: Estes &amp; Lauriat, 1892), 29.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1854-06-10'>Saturday, June 10, 1854.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln writes amended bill in <name type='case' key='L04785'>VanBergen v. Singleton</name>, signing "Logan, Lincoln &amp; Herndon for complainant."
<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1854-06-12'>Monday, June 12, 1854.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Sangamon Circuit Court commences four-day term. Ten of Lincoln &amp; Herndon's cases are called. In one&#8212;<name type='case' key='L03664'>Francis for use of Pierce v. Loomis &amp; Taylor</name>&#8212;testimony of James H. Matheny is taken. Two cases are continued, and seven dismissed.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1854-06-13'>Tuesday, June 13, 1854.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln's court work consists mainly in entering motions and filing pleas in nine Lincoln &amp; Herndon cases called. In one, however&#8212;<name type='case' key='L03211'>Eads v. Griffin</name>&#8212;defendant defaults, and Lincoln &amp; Herndon obtain judgment for plaintiff in sum of $159.25.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln writes M. K. Alexander of Paris, apologizing for his failure 
to attend to case for him in Clinton in May.
<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%3A257' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Milton K. Alexander</xref>, [13 June 1854], <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:218-19.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline> 
            <date value='1854-06-14'>Wednesday, June 14, 1854.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>. </dateline>
         <p> En route to Chicago, former
  President Millard Fillmore stops in Springfield, where Lincoln "introduce[s]"
  him to "a large concourse of citizens." A newspaper reports that in honor of
  the visit, "A national salute was...fired." "[Fillmore] expressed the highest
  admiration of this state...[and] confessed that he had no adequate idea of its
  immense resources until he had traversed its magnificent prairie." 
  <bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Illinois State Register</title> (Springfield), 15 June 1854,
  2:1.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1854-06-15'>Thursday, June 15, 1854.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Disposal of five cases winds up Lincoln's work in Sangamon Circuit Court. One is <name type='case' key='L04509'>Rorax v. Arnold</name>, tried March 25, 1854, when jury failed to agree. Now jury returns verdict for plaintiff. Lincoln &amp; Herndon represent defendant.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
In <name type='case' key='L04597'>Mary S. Smith et al. v. William Green et al.</name>, chancery, Lincoln writes answer of James C. Conkling, guardian, replication of complainant, and order of court.
<bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
(See June 18, 1854.)
</p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1854-06-16'>Friday, June 16, 1854.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln writes to George B. Kinkead, his attorney at Lexington, 
Kentucky, anent letter and draft Kinkead recently sent to N. W. 
Edwards. In answer he writes: "I ran my eye over the contents of your 
letter, &amp; only have to say you do not seem disposed to compensate 
yourself very liberally for the separate service you did for me."
<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%3A259' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to George B. Kinkead</xref>, 16 June 1854, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:219-20.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1854-06-18'>Sunday, June 18, 1854.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln, give or take one day, replies to June 15, 1854 letter from 
John Swallow of Postville, Logan County, who asked about legal status 
of property sold for fraudulent "consideration."
<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%3A258' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to John D. Swallow</xref>, [c. 15 June 1854], <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:219.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1854-06-22'>Thursday, June 22, 1854.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln writes O. L. Davis, Danville attorney, that he has been 
unable to locate deed Davis asked him to find. "I have just made the 
desired search, and find that no such deed has ever been here. 
Campbell, the Auditor, says that if it were here, it would be in his 
office, and that he has hunted for it a dozen times, &amp; could 
never find it."
<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%3A260' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Oliver L. Davis</xref>, 22 June 1854, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:220.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1854-06-27'>Tuesday, June 27, 1854.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln has new shaft attached to his buggy, and body repaired ($1.75).
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Obed Lewis Account Books</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>