<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1855-08-01'>Wednesday, August 1, 1855.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield,
  IL</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Lincoln, representing Maria L. Bullock, buys land
  for Springfield real estate addition from Elijah Iles. <bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> He writes, for defendant, notice to take depositions in 
  <name type='case' key='L03645'>Tinney v. Ingwerson et al.</name> 
            <bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1855-08-04'>Saturday, August 4, 1855.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln buys more land, for Mrs. Bullock, from heirs of Matheny, paying $50.
<bibl default='NO'>Record; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A340' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Mrs. Maria L. Bullock</xref>, 31 August 1855, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:323-25.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
He deeds to Elijah Iles his own equity (for legal services) in Mrs. Bullock's land, and writes Mrs. Bullock's certification, with Josiah Francis signing as witness. He appends surveyor's certification also. He writes petition and notice in <name type='case' key='L02533'>Jane Allen v. Robert Allen Jr.</name>, signing "Lincoln &amp; Herndon for Petitioner." He adds his affidavit that he delivered true copy to defendant.
<bibl default='NO'>Record; Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1855-08-06'>Monday, August 6, 1855.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln writes demurrer in <name type='case' key='L02135'>Doyle et al. v. Lewis et al.</name> in U.S. Circuit Court, and signs Logan's name as well as his own.
<bibl default='NO'>RPB&#8212;Original.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1855-08-09'>Thursday, August 9, 1855.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln receives letter from Owen Lovejoy of Princeton.
<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%3A334' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Owen Lovejoy</xref>, 11 August 1855, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:316-17.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
He also has execution of Stigleman, Johnson and Guild against Manning 
A. Bruce levied on land which Bruce had mortgaged, and files 
certificate of levy for record. Herndon later (September 1857) gets 
judgment by default for $138.05.
<bibl default='NO'>MH&#8212;Original; Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1855-08-10'>Friday, August 10, 1855.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln purchases paper of "Horse Powder" at drug store.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 151.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1855-08-11'>Saturday, August 11,
  1855.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes to
  abolitionist and State Representative Owen Lovejoy, of Princeton, Illinois.
  Lovejoy had written to Lincoln and apparently expressed a desire to bring
  together the various political parties in opposition to slavery's expansion.
  Lincoln replies, "Not even <uLine>you</uLine> are more anxious to prevent the
  extension of slavery than I; and yet the political atmosphere is such, just
  now, that I fear to do any thing, lest I do wrong...I have no objection to
  'fuse' with any body provided I can fuse on ground which I think is right." 
  <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%3A334' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Owen Lovejoy</xref>, 11 August 1855, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:316-17.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1855-08-13'>Monday, August 13, 1855.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln writes newspaper advertisement of sale of land, Mrs. 
Bullock's, at public auction Saturday afternoon.
<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%3A335' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Advertisement</xref>, 13 August 1855, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:317.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1855-08-15'>Wednesday, August 15, 1855.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
In letter to George Robertson, former member of Congress, now 
professor at Transylvania College, Lincoln foreshadows his "House 
Divided" speech. He is convinced that there is no prospect of 
peaceful emancipation, and is afraid country is no longer united on 
abstract principle of liberty. "Our political problem now is, 'Can 
we, as a nation, continue together 
<uLine>permanently&#8212;forever</uLine>&#8212;half slave, and half 
free?' "
<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%3A336' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to George Robertson</xref>, 15 August 1855, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:317-18.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Robert Lincoln brings home from John Williams' store half-pound of 
gunpowder tea charged (63&#162;) to his father's account.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 147.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1855-08-17'>Friday, August 17, 1855.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln writes amendment to chancery bill in <name type='case' key='L04785'>VanBergen v. Singleton</name>, signing "Logan, Lincoln &amp; Herndon for complainant."
<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln buys paper of "Horse Powder" at drug store.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 151.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1855-08-18'>Saturday, August 18, 1855.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield,
  IL</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Acting for Mrs. Bullock, Lincoln has several lots
  sold in Bullock's Addition to Springfield sold. <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%3A340' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Mrs. Maria L. Bullock</xref>, 31 August 1855,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:323-25.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p>
            <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> buys and charges dress goods at
  John Williams' store. <bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal
  Finances</title>, 147.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1855-08-19'>Sunday, August 19, 1855.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
For James Kelly of New Lisbon, Ohio, Lincoln writes power of attorney 
authorizing Lincoln &amp; Herndon or either of them to do anything 
necessary in case of Blackledge in Logan County. He sends document 
for Kelly's signature.
<bibl default='NO'>Original owned by Mrs. Edna Orendorff MacPherson, Springfield, Ill.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1855-08-20'>Monday, August 20, 1855.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
For Mrs. Bullock, Lincoln deeds lots purchased at Saturday's sale to 
four different persons, taking notes from all except Elijah Iles, who 
paid in cash. He pays costs of sale, $38.10, and gives Matheny's 
heirs $50 for quit-claim deed, removing cloud from title.
<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%3A340' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Mrs. Maria L. Bullock</xref>, 31 August 1855, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:323-25; Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1855-08-21'>Tuesday, August 21, 1855.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln sends John L. Miller of Metamora bill of complaint, with 
note: "Herewith is the Bill. Fill in the names of the arbitrators in 
the blank left for that purpose. Also, get copies of your deed and 
bond, as indicated in the bill, mark them (A) &amp; (B) and file them 
with the Bill." He makes deposition that he is "the identical Abraham 
Lincoln, who was Captain of a company . . . in the war with the 
British band of Sacs . . . A.D. 1832," for obtaining additional 
bounty under act of Congress of March 3, 1855.
<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%3A338' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to John L. Miller</xref>, 21 August 1855, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:319-20.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1855-08-24'>Friday, August 24, 1855.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes to his longtime
  friend Joshua Speed, of Kentucky, regarding slavery, politics, and Kansas.
  Lincoln writes, "You say if Kansas fairly votes herself a free state, as a
  christian you will rather rejoice at it. All decent slave-holders
  <uLine>talk</uLine> that way...But they never <uLine>vote</uLine> that way.
  Although in a private letter, or conversation, you will express your preference
  that Kansas shall be free, you would vote for no man for Congress who would say
  the same thing publicly. No such man could be elected from any district in any
  slave-state." As to his political affiliation, Lincoln explains, "You enquire
  where I now stand. That is a disputed point. I think I am a whig; but others
  say there are no whigs, and that I am an abolitionist. When I was at Washington
  I voted for the Wilmot Proviso as good as forty times, and I never heard of any
  one attempting to unwhig me for that. I now do no more than oppose the
  <uLine>extension</uLine> of slavery. I am not a Know-Nothing. That is certain.
  How could I be? How can any one who abhors the oppression of negroes, be in
  favor of degrading classes of white people?" <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%3A339' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Joshua F. Speed</xref>, 24 August 1855,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:320-23.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1855-08-27'>Monday, August 27, 1855.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln sends Maria Bullock certificate of deposit at Clark's 
Exchange Bank, Springfield, for $106.90, part of proceeds of lot sale 
August 20, 1855.
<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%3A340' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Mrs. Maria L. Bullock</xref>, 31 August 1855, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:323-25.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1855-08-28'>Tuesday, August 28, 1855.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Isaac Lindsay borrows $600 from Lincoln. Ten per cent per annum is 
rate of interest, and note calls for payment of principal in 12 
months.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Mortgage Book 1</title>, 69.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1855-08-31'>Friday, August 31, 1855.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln writes Mrs. Bullock detailed account of business transacted 
for her. He sends her $2.08, balance of money in his hands. "The 
notes are in my hands, &amp; the mortgages are at the Recorders 
office subject to my control. They are all in your name."
<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%3A340' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Mrs. Maria L. Bullock</xref>, 31 August 1855, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:323-25.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>