<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1857-12-07'>Monday, December 7, 1857.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
In U.S. Circuit Court, Lincoln files praecipe for nine cases brought 
by S. C. Davis &amp; Co., wholesale merchants of St. Louis. All are 
brought to enforce payment of notes given for merchandise.
<bibl default='NO'>Files.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline> 
            <date value='1857-12-08'>Tuesday, December 8, 1857.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield,
  IL</place>. </dateline>
         <p> In three more Davis &amp; Co. cases Lincoln files
  bills of complaint. <bibl default='NO'>Files.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1857-12-09'>Wednesday, December 9, 1857.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
In cases filed December 7, 1857, Lincoln files declarations.
<bibl default='NO'>Files.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1857-12-11'>Friday, December 11, 1857.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
In still another Davis case&#8212;defendant is John B. 
Miller&#8212;Lincoln files declaration and bond for costs. 
Declaration alleges nonpayment of two promissory notes, each for 
$1,608.90.
<bibl default='NO'>Files; Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1857-12-12'>Saturday, December 12, 1857.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln enters himself as security for costs in <name type='case' key='L02160'>Keith &amp; Thornton v. Burt</name> in U.S. Circuit Court. Plaintiffs sue on $2,000 debt.
<bibl default='NO'>Record; Bond owned by James A. Jones, Springfield, Ill.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1857-12-14'>Monday, December 14, 1857.</date>
            <place key='40.4833, -88.9833' teiForm='name'>Bloomington, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
McLean Circuit Court convenes for winter term. Lincoln's attendance 
is indicated by letter he writes December 18, 1857 in which he states 
that he received letter on "coming home from Bloomington last night."
<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%3A464' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Henry C. Whitney</xref>, 18 December 1857, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:428-29.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1857-12-17'>Thursday, December 17, 1857.</date>
            <place key='40.4833, -88.9833' teiForm='name'>Bloomington, IL</place> and <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln, for plaintiff with Hanna and Scott in <name type='case' key='L01686'>Matthew T. Scott Jr. v. St. Louis, Alton, and Chicago RR</name>, secures order that defendant answer declaration on 22d.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
He reaches home in evening, and finds letters from Whitney and Trumbull.
<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%3A464' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Henry C. Whitney</xref>, 18 December 1857, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:428-29; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A463' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Lyman Trumbull</xref>, 18 December 1857, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:428.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1857-12-18'>Friday, December 18, 1857.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
To Whitney Lincoln sends legal opinion, and adds note deploring 
attacks on "Long John" Wentworth by Chicago newspapers. In letter to 
Trumbull he summarizes local political situation. "Nearly all the 
democrats here stick to Douglas; but they are hobbling along with the 
idea that there is no split between him and Buchanan."
<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%3A464' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Henry C. Whitney</xref>, 18 December 1857, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:428-29; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A463' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Lyman Trumbull</xref>, 18 December 1857, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:428.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1857-12-19'>Saturday, December 19, 1857.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln files praecipe in <name type='case' key='L02269'>S. C. Davis &amp; Co. v. Dwyer</name> in U.S. Circuit Court.
<bibl default='NO'>Files.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1857-12-21'>Monday, December 21, 1857.</date>
            <place key='40.4833, -88.9833' teiForm='name'>Bloomington, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln writes his friend Jesse K. Dubois, auditor, advising him to 
accept $90,000 from Illinois Central in temporary settlement of 
disputed claim for taxes due state. "I do not write this as a lawyer 
seeking an advantage for a client; but only as a friend, only urging 
you to do, what I think I would do if I were in your situation. I 
mean this as private and confidential only, but I feel a good deal of 
anxiety about 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%3A465' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Jesse K. Dubois</xref>, 21 December 1857, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:429.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1857-12-23'>Wednesday, December 23, 1857.</date>
            <place key='40.4833, -88.9833' teiForm='name'>Bloomington, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln loses <name type='case' key='L01678'>Pike v. Shaffer</name> when jury finds defendant not guilty. Court orders him discharged and assesses damages against plaintiff, Lincoln's client.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1857-12-24'>Thursday, December 24, 1857.</date>
            <place key='40.4833, -88.9833' teiForm='name'>Bloomington, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
[McLean Circuit Court adjourns until December 28, 1857.]
</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1857-12-26'>Saturday, December 26, 1857.</date> 
            <place key='40.4833, -88.9833' teiForm='name'>Bloomington, IL</place>. </dateline>
         <p> [One of the Lincoln boys brings
  home from John Williams' store a pair of "Linen Kid Gloves." <bibl default='NO'>Pratt,
  <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 149.</bibl>] </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1857-12-28'>Monday, December 28, 1857.</date>
            <place key='40.4833, -88.9833' teiForm='name'>Bloomington, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
"What does the New-York Tribune mean by it's constant eulogising, and admiring, and magnifying Douglas?" Lincoln writes Trumbull from Bloomington, where he is still attending McLean Circuit Court. If the "Tribune" continues to praise him to its thousands of Illinois readers, defections will result. "I am not complaining. I only wish a fair understanding." He also writes to William H. Davenport, client, explaining why <name type='case' key='L01886'>Davenport v. Sconce and DonCarlos</name> has been delayed in Vermilion Circuit Court.
<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%3A467' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Lyman Trumbull</xref>, 28 December 1857, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:430; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A466' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to William H. Davenport</xref>, 28 December 1857, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:429-30.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>