<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1857-03-02'>Monday, March 2, 1857.</date>
            <place key='41.8500, -87.6500' teiForm='name'>Chicago, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
[Spring term of DeWitt Circuit Court convenes. Herndon writes 
Trumbull: "Mr. Lincoln has gone to Chicago&#8212;was a little unwell 
when he left but suppose him well ere this."
<bibl default='NO'>Lyman Trumbull Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>]
</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1857-03-04'>Wednesday, March 4, 1857.</date>
            <place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place> to <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln is recognized on train by Alfred Hyde, convict being taken to 
Alton penitentiary, who asks about obtaining pardon. Lincoln is 
impressed by Hyde's "gentlemanly appearance" and his claim of 
friendship with Senator Daniel S. Dickinson of New York.
<bibl default='NO'>Hyde to Lincoln, 25 March 1857, 1858, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A556' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Daniel S. Dickinson</xref>, 3 August 1858, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:535.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1857-03-06'>Friday, March
  6, 1857.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Lincoln pays $5
  docket fee in <name type='case'>Henderson v. Week</name>, and signs U.S. court
  fee book. <bibl default='NO'> 
               <title>Fee Book</title>.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1857-03-07'>Saturday, March 7, 1857.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln deals with Springfield business preparatory to departure on circuit.
<bibl default='NO'>George T. Brown to R. Yates, 5 March 1857, Richard Yates Papers, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, Springfield, IL.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1857-03-10'>Tuesday, March 10, 1857.</date>
            <place key='40.1500, -88.9500' teiForm='name'>Clinton, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln is engaged in criminal case in DeWitt Circuit Court. With 
Moore and Tupper, he defends Larry Bowen, Patrick Kinney, and Thomas 
O'Connell, charged with larceny. Jury finds Bowen guilty, but 
exonerates others. Bowen is sentenced to year in penitentiary.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1857-03-11'>Wednesday, March 11, 1857.</date>
            <place key='40.1500, -88.9500' teiForm='name'>Clinton, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
[<person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> buys pair of slippers at John Williams &amp; Co.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 148.</bibl>]
</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1857-03-12'>Thursday, March 12, 1857.</date>
            <place key='40.1500, -88.9500' teiForm='name'>Clinton, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
            <name type='case' key='L00573'>Lewis v. Phares</name>, assumpsit suit, is tried. Moore and Swett represent plaintiff, Weldon and Lincoln defendant. After jury is summoned, plaintiff submits to nonsuit.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln writes and files defendant's affidavit in <name type='case' key='L00551'>T. F. Hamblin &amp; Co. v. Lisenbey</name>, and court adjourns.
<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1857-03-14'>Saturday, March 14, 1857.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln concurs in legal opinion which Logan has written at request 
of Zimri A. Enos. Opinion concerns compensation of county surveyor.
<bibl default='NO'>Emanuel Hertz, <title>Abraham Lincoln: A New Portrait</title>, 2 vols. (New York: Liveright, 1931), 700-2.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1857-03-16'>Monday, March 16, 1857.</date>
            <place key='40.1333, -89.3500' teiForm='name'>Lincoln, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Logan Circuit Court convenes for two-week term at Lincoln.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln draws up petition for pardon of John Hibbs, Logan County 
citizen sentenced to two years for manslaughter in 1856, and collects 
signatures.
<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%3A428' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Petition to William H. Bissell</xref>, [8 May 1857], <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:394; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A429' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Endorsement: David Davis to William H. Bissell</xref>, [c. 8 May 1857], <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:394-95.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1857-03-21'>Saturday, March 21, 1857.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
On behalf of Maria L. Bullock, <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person>'s aunt, Lincoln releases 
two mortgages, given by Patrick Keily and Nathaniel Hay. In margin of 
Deed Record opposite both instruments he writes: "Satisfied in full, 
March 21, 1857, Maria L. Bullock. By A. Lincoln, Attorney in fact."
<bibl default='NO'>Deed Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1857-03-24'>Tuesday, March 24, 1857.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln enters himself as security for plaintiff's costs in <name type='case'>Saltonstall v. Edes et ux.</name> in U.S. Circuit Court.
<bibl default='NO'>Original owned by James A. Jones, Springfield, Ill.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1857-03-25'>Wednesday, March 25, 1857.</date>
            <place key='40.1333, -89.3500' teiForm='name'>Lincoln, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
            <name type='case' key='L01009'>Johnson v. Beam &amp; Turley</name>, Lincoln &amp; Herndon for plaintiff, is dismissed at defendant's costs. <name type='case' key='L00983'>Webster v. Rhodes &amp; Angell</name>, Lincoln, Herndon, and Parks for plaintiff, is also dismissed, each party paying his costs.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
[Filed in Danville is bill in <name type='case' key='L01886'>Davenport v. Sconce &amp; DonCarlos</name>, which Lincoln corrected and evidently mailed.
<bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>]
</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1857-03-28'>Saturday, March 28, 1857.</date> 
            <place key='40.1333, -89.3500' teiForm='name'>Lincoln,
  IL</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Lincoln &amp; Herndon represent plaintiff in 
  <name type='case' key='L00975'>Lanham v. Lorence</name>, chancery. 
  <bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1857-03-29'>Sunday, March 29, 1857.</date>
            <place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place> to <place key='40.6833, -89.5833' teiForm='name'>Peoria, IL</place>.
</dateline>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1857-03-30'>Monday, March 30, 1857.</date>
            <place key='40.6833, -89.5833' teiForm='name'>Peoria, IL</place> and <place key='40.7833, -89.3500' teiForm='name'>Metamora, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln spends night at Peoria House. Proceeding to Metamora, he represents defendant in <name type='case' key='L01752'>Lncy Ann Davenport v. Lucy Davenport et al.</name>, bill for dower. Case, which had been dismissed on plaintiffs motion, is reinstated and continued.
<bibl default='NO'>Peoria Democratic Union, 30 March 1857; Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1857-03-31'>Tuesday, March 31, 1857.</date>
            <place key='40.4833, -88.9833' teiForm='name'>Bloomington, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln opens case of Isaac Wyant, charged with murder, for state, 
and defendant's attorneys outline their defense. That Wyant killed 
Anson Rusk is not contested, defense resting its case on alleged 
insanity of accused.
<bibl default='NO'>Bloomington Pantagraph, 15 April 1857.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
[<person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> buys drilling and muslin at John Williams' store.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 148.</bibl>]
</p>
      </div2>