<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1855-09-01'>Saturday, September 1, 1855.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Concerned about failure of
  associate counsel in <name type='case'>McCormick v. Manny</name> to keep him
  informed of developments, Lincoln writes Manny &amp; Co., asking whether case
  is to be heard September 20, 1855, as originally planned. <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%3A341' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to John H. Manny and Company</xref>, 1 September 1855,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:325.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> To secure
  loan made Tuesday, Isaac Lindsay and wife give Lincoln mortgage on two lots in
  business section of Springfield. <bibl default='NO'>Mortgage Record 1, 69.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p>
  Lincoln buys box of pills from his druggist. <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='1855-09-03'>Monday, September 3, 1855.</date>
            <place key='' teiForm='name'>[Lincoln, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Logan Circuit Court convenes.]
</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1855-09-04'>Tuesday, September 4, 1855.</date>
            <place key='' teiForm='name'>[Lincoln, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
[Sometime during week Lincoln tries <name type='case' key='L01011'>Kelly v. Evans</name>, in regard to which he wrote A. L. Brewer March 11, 1855. Defendant contests case, but Lincoln obtains judgment for his client for full amount.
<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%3A345' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Anson L. Brewer</xref>, 5 November 1855, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:327.</bibl>]
</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1855-09-05'>Wednesday, September 5, 1855.</date>
            <place key='' teiForm='name'>[Lincoln, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln attends sheriff's sale resulting from <name type='case'>Stigleman et al. v. Bruce</name>. He writes memorandum of sales.
<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1855-09-06'>Thursday, September 6, 1855.</date>
            <place key='39.2667, -89.8667' teiForm='name'>Carlinville, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln has important case in Macoupin Circuit Court, brought from St. Clair County on change of venue, <name type='case' key='L00826'>Clark &amp; Morrison v. Page et al.</name>. Trumbull and Koerner represent complainants, Lincoln and Underwood defendants, St. Louis bankers and financiers. Lincoln writes order of court which gives both parties leave to amend their pleas filed and continues case (see February 18, 1856).
<bibl default='NO'>Record; Files.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1855-09-10'>Monday, September 10, 1855.</date>
            <place key='40.4833, -88.9833' teiForm='name'>Bloomington, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
[Forecasting his autumn activities to Love-joy August 11, 1855, 
Lincoln wrote: "I can be seen . . . at Bloomington at any time from 
the 10th. to the 17th. of September."]
</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1855-09-11'>Tuesday, September 11, 1855.</date>
            <place key='40.4833, -88.9833' teiForm='name'>Bloomington, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln has trespass case in McLean Circuit Court, <name type='case' key='L01649'>Goff v. Illinois Central RR</name>. By agreement case is submitted to court. Court takes it under advisement. Damages of $275 are later awarded plaintiff.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1855-09-12'>Wednesday, September 12, 1855.</date>
            <place key='40.4833, -88.9833' teiForm='name'>Bloomington, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln writes and sends to Metamora bond in <name type='case' key='L01791'>Moore v. Clark</name>, signing "Gridley &amp; Lincoln for appellant."
<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1855-09-14'>Friday, September 14, 1855.</date>
            <place key='40.4833, -88.9833' teiForm='name'>Bloomington, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln draws on James F. Joy, through Theron Pardee, for $150. This 
represents fee of $10 each for 15 cases against Illinois Central 
which Lincoln had handled in McLean and DeWitt counties since 
September 1854.
<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%3A342' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to James F. Joy</xref>, 14 September 1855, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:325.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1855-09-15'>Saturday, September 15, 1855.</date>
            <place key='40.4833, -88.9833' teiForm='name'>Bloomington, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
[Lincoln's account with Corneau &amp; Diller, drugs, is charged 
75&#162; for box of "Lubins Extract" and 40&#162; for box of "Ox 
Marrow."
<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='1855-09-17'>Monday, September 17, 1855.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln writes court order in <name type='case' key='L02533'>Jane Allen v. Robert Allen Jr.</name>
            <bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
He then leaves for Cincinnati.
</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1855-09-18'>Tuesday, September 18, 1855.</date>
            <place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place>.
</dateline>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1855-09-19'>Wednesday, September 19, 1855.</date> 
            <place key='39.1500, -84.4500' teiForm='name'>Cincinnati, OH</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes to James F. Joy
  of Illinois Central Railroad, who has responded to Lincoln's September 14, 1855
  draft on company as though he never heard of Lincoln. Joy telegraphed Lincoln
  on 17th, who received it at railroad depot. "I ran to the Telegraph office and
  answered briefly, and was near being left by the cars." He recapitulates his
  railroad services. "The charge I made was very reasonable." <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%3A343' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to James F. Joy</xref>, 19 September 1855,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:326.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1855-09-20'>Thursday, September 20, 1855.</date>
            <place key='39.1500, -84.4500' teiForm='name'>Cincinnati, OH</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
[<name type='case'>McCormick v. Manny</name>, set for hearing at 
Cincinnati to suit Judge McLean, commences. Distinguished counsel 
represent both parties&#8212;Edward M. Dickerson and Reverdy Johnson 
for McCormick; George Harding, 
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Edwin M. Stanton</person>
, and Lincoln for 
Manny. Lincoln is prepared to make strong effort to win case.
<bibl default='NO'>William M. Dickson, "Abraham Lincoln at Cincinnati," <title>Harper's New Monthly Magazine</title>, 69 (June 1884):62.</bibl>]
</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1855-09-21'>Friday, September 21, 1855.</date>
            <place key='39.1500, -84.4500' teiForm='name'>Cincinnati, OH</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
[Harding and 
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Stanton</person>
, unfavorably impressed with Lincoln's 
appearance, ignore him, and he does not participate in trial. Though 
feeling rebuff keenly, he remains in Cincinnati approximately a week. 
"Freed from any care in the law case that brought him here, it was to 
him a week of relaxation," wrote his host, William M. Dickson, 
Cincinnati lawyer and husband of <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person>'s cousin.
<bibl default='NO'>William M. Dickson, "Abraham Lincoln at Cincinnati," <title>Harper's New Monthly Magazine</title>, 69 (June 1884):62.</bibl>]
</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1855-09-22'>Saturday, September 22, 1855.</date>
            <place key='39.1500, -84.4500' teiForm='name'>Cincinnati, OH</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
[Lincoln visits points of interest in Cincinnati. One such is estate 
of Nicholas Longworth, where he becomes interested in grounds and 
conservatories. He meets Longworth, who has no idea of his visitor's 
identity.
<bibl default='NO'>William M. Dickson, "Abraham Lincoln at Cincinnati," <title>Harper's New Monthly Magazine</title>, 69 (June 1884):62.</bibl>]
</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1855-09-24'>Monday, September 24, 1855.</date>
            <place key='39.1500, -84.4500' teiForm='name'>Cincinnati, OH</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
[One day Lincoln spends visiting suburbs of Cincinnati&#8212;Walnut 
Hills, Mount Auburn, Clifton, and Spring Grove Cemetery. He becomes 
interested in statuary on large estate he visits, and is mortified 
that he cannot identify one.
<bibl default='NO'>William M. Dickson, "Abraham Lincoln at Cincinnati," <title>Harper's New Monthly Magazine</title>, 69 (June 1884):62.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
In Springfield, estate of Dempsey Tucker pays Lincoln &amp; Herndon 
$10 for services.
<bibl default='NO'>Probate File.</bibl>]
</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1855-09-25'>Tuesday, September 25, 1855.</date>
            <place key='39.1500, -84.4500' teiForm='name'>Cincinnati, OH</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
[Another day Lincoln devotes to county and city courts, spending 
entire morning in Room No. 1 of Superior Court, where eccentric 
jurist and wit, Bellamy Storer, presides. Lincoln enjoys proceedings 
immensely and says tohis companion: "I wish we had that judge in 
Illinois. I think he would share with me the fatherhood of the legal 
jokes of the Illinois bar."
<bibl default='NO'>William M. Dickson, "Abraham Lincoln at Cincinnati," <title>Harper's New Monthly Magazine</title>, 69 (June 1884):62.</bibl>]
</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1855-09-26'>Wednesday, September 26, 1855.</date>
            <place key='39.1500, -84.4500' teiForm='name'>Cincinnati, OH</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
[This is probably day on which Lincoln leaves for home. He says to 
his hostess: "You have made my stay here most agreeable, and I am a 
thousand times obliged to you; but in reply to your request for me to 
come again I must say to you I never expect to be in Cincinnati 
again. I have nothing against the city, but things have so happened 
here as to make it undesirable for me ever to return."
<bibl default='NO'>William M. Dickson, "Abraham Lincoln at Cincinnati," <title>Harper's New Monthly Magazine</title>, 69 (June 1884):62.</bibl>]
</p>
      </div2>