<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1857-09-01'>Tuesday, September 1, 1857.</date>
            <place key='41.8500, -87.6500' teiForm='name'>Chicago, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
[On September 20, 1857 <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> wrote: "Mr. L. is not at home, 
this makes the fourth week, he has been in Chicago.
<bibl default='NO'>Sandburg &amp; Angle, 201.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln must have been in Chicago during first week of Sept.]
</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1857-09-08'>Tuesday, September 8, 1857.</date>
            <place key='41.8500, -87.6500' teiForm='name'>Chicago, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Trial of "Effie Afton" case&#8212;<name type='case' key='L02289'>Hurd et al. v. Rock Island Bridge Co.</name>&#8212;commences in U.S. Circuit Court before Judge McLean. Plaintiffs' attorneys are H. M. Wead, T. D. Lincoln, and Corydon Beckwith; N. B. Judd, Joseph Knox and A. Lincoln represent defendant. Wead opens case, Judd replies, and T. D. Lincoln answers Judd.
<bibl default='NO'>Chicago Press, 9 September 1857.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1857-09-09'>Wednesday, September 9, 1857.</date>
            <place key='41.8500, -87.6500' teiForm='name'>Chicago, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Reading of depositions takes up most of day in "Effie Afton" case. 
Judd and A. Lincoln object to question asked deponents, and after 
considerable argument, Judge McLean rules that part of question is 
improper.
<bibl default='NO'>Chicago Press, 10 September 1857.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1857-09-10'>Thursday, September 10, 1857.</date>
            <place key='41.8500, -87.6500' teiForm='name'>Chicago, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Presentation of depositions by T. D. Lincoln takes up most of day.
<bibl default='NO'>Chicago Press, 11 September 1857.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
In <name type='case' key='L02139'>Eddy, Jameson &amp; Co. v. Handshy &amp; Logan</name>, case in which plaintiff sues for collection of note for $1,384.21 and damages of $1,500, Lincoln files power of attorney and confesses judgment for $895.21.
<bibl default='NO'>Judgment Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1857-09-11'>Friday, September 11, 1857.</date>
            <place key='41.8500, -87.6500' teiForm='name'>Chicago, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
T. D. Lincoln continues to read depositions.
<bibl default='NO'>Chicago Press, 12 September 1857.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1857-09-12'>Saturday, September 12, 1857.</date>
            <place key='41.8500, -87.6500' teiForm='name'>Chicago, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Plaintiffs' attorneys continue to present evidence, adding oral 
testimony to depositions. Capt. Orrin Smith of Galena, one of their 
important witnesses, testifies and is cross-examined by Joseph Knox. 
Lincoln takes little part in proceedings, merely interrupting one 
witness to ask him to explain part of his testimony by referring to 
map.
<bibl default='NO'>Chicago Press, 14 September 1857, 15 September 1857.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1857-09-13'>Sunday, September 13, 1857.</date>
            <place key='41.8500, -87.6500' teiForm='name'>Chicago, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln writes Jesse K. Dubois, auditor, that several people have 
complained about Dubois not enforcing banking laws. He hopes Dubois 
will explain.
<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%3A449' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Jesse K. Dubois</xref>, 13 September 1857, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:414.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1857-09-14'>Monday, September 14, 1857.</date>
            <place key='41.8500, -87.6500' teiForm='name'>Chicago, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
T. D. Lincoln reads depositions throughout morning. In afternoon oral 
testimony is presented.
<bibl default='NO'>Chicago Press, 15 September 1857, 16 September 1857.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1857-09-15'>Tuesday, September 15, 1857.</date>
            <place key='41.8500, -87.6500' teiForm='name'>Chicago, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Plaintiffs' testimony is concluded during morning. One defense 
deposition is read, but owing to defense not being fully prepared, 
court adjourns early. Several defense witnesses testify.
<bibl default='NO'>Chicago Press, 16 September 1857.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1857-09-16'>Wednesday, September 16, 1857.</date> 
            <place key='41.8500, -87.6500' teiForm='name'>Chicago, IL</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Defense witnesses continue to offer
  testimony. <bibl default='NO'>Chicago Press, 17 September 1857, 18 September 1857.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1857-09-17'>Thursday, September 17, 1857.</date>
            <place key='41.8500, -87.6500' teiForm='name'>Chicago, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Defense occupies day in presentation of testimony.
<bibl default='NO'>Chicago Press, 18 September 1857.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1857-09-18'>Friday, September 18, 1857.</date>
            <place key='41.8500, -87.6500' teiForm='name'>Chicago, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Defense presents depositions in morning, oral testimony in afternoon.
<bibl default='NO'>Chicago Press, 19 September 1857.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1857-09-19'>Saturday, September 19, 1857.</date>
            <place key='41.8500, -87.6500' teiForm='name'>Chicago, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
T. D. Lincoln objects when Judd offers in evidence comparative 
statement of business done on railroad and river. T. D. Lincoln, 
Knox, A. Lincoln, and Wead argue question. McLean decides that no 
evidence of this kind can be offered to impair right of navigating 
river. Plaintiffs offer rebutting testimony.
<bibl default='NO'>Chicago Press, 21 September 1857.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1857-09-20'>Sunday, September 20, 1857.</date>
            <place key='41.8500, -87.6500' teiForm='name'>Chicago, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
            <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> writes to Emily Todd Helm about her trip to New York. "I 
often laugh," she says, "&amp; tell Mr. Lincoln that I am determined 
my next husband shall be rich." This throws light on Lincoln's 
mysterious eastern trip, suggesting pleasure tour taken on strength 
of large fee won from Illinois Central.
<bibl default='NO'>Sandburg &amp; Angle, 201; Helm, <title corresp='books_Helm'>Mary</title>, 122-23.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1857-09-21'>Monday, September 21, 1857.</date>
            <place key='41.8500, -87.6500' teiForm='name'>Chicago, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Judd offers to let case go to jury on instructions of court without 
argument, but McLean requests it be argued. Wead makes opening 
argument for plaintiffs, taking up most of day. Knox follows, but 
court soon adjourns.
<bibl default='NO'>Chicago Press, 22 September 1857.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1857-09-22'>Tuesday, September 22, 1857.</date>
            <place key='41.8500, -87.6500' teiForm='name'>Chicago, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Knox continues his argument throughout morning. In afternoon Lincoln 
commences and speaks for balance of day.
<bibl default='NO'>Chicago Press, 23 September 1857, 24 September 1857; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A450' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Speech to the Jury in the Rock Island Bridge Case, Chicago, Illinois</xref>, 22 September 1857, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:415-22.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1857-09-23'>Wednesday, September 23, 1857.</date>
            <place key='41.8500, -87.6500' teiForm='name'>Chicago, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln concludes his argument. T. D. Lincoln, for plaintiffs, speaks 
balance of day.
<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%3A450' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Speech to the Jury in the Rock Island Bridge Case, Chicago, Illinois</xref>, 23 September 1857, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:415-22; Chicago Press, 25 September 1857.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1857-09-24'>Thursday, September 24, 1857.</date>
            <place key='41.8500, -87.6500' teiForm='name'>Chicago, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
T. D. Lincoln speaks most of morning, and Judge McLean's charge takes 
up most of afternoon. Jury retires. At eight o'clock they report that 
they stand nine to three, and that there is no prospect of agreement. 
Court dismisses them.
<bibl default='NO'>Chicago Press, 25 September 1857.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1857-09-26'>Saturday, September 26, 1857.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln deposits $400 in his bank account.
<bibl default='NO'>Marine Bank Ledger.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1857-09-27'>Sunday, September 27, 1857.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln gives his partner, William H. Herndon, check for $23.
<bibl default='NO'>Original owned by Mrs. Mary Edwards Brown, Springfield, Ill.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1857-09-28'>Monday, September 28, 1857.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield,
  IL</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes two more checks&#8212;one for $11 to
  John Hutchinson, other for $10 to Bailhache and Baker, publishers of "Illinois
  State Journal." Lincoln loans Jacob Ruckel $500 and takes mortgage, which he
  draws himself, to secure debt. Interest is 10 per cent per annum, and loan is
  to run one year (see November 27, 1858, November 18, 1860). <bibl default='NO'>Photocopy;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A452' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Mortgage
  and Note Drawn for Jacob Ruckel</xref>, 28 September 1857,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:422-23.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1857-09-29'>Tuesday, September 29, 1857.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln files Jacob Ruckel mortgage for record. He releases mortgage 
Daniel E. Ruckel had given him August 15, 1851, to cover debt of $300.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
To Samuel Briggs, Lincoln writes legal opinion concerning 
organization of town of Delavan. "The five dollars is a sufficient 
fee."
<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%3A453' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Samuel Briggs</xref>, 29 September 1857, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:423.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1857-09-30'>Wednesday, September 30, 1857.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
In letter to Richard Yates, Lincoln recommends J. O. Johnson as 
competent political organizer. "And now, let me say," he concludes, 
"I wish you could make up your mind to come to the Legislature from 
Morgan next term. You can be elected, and I doubt some whether any 
other friend can. It will be something of a sacrafice to you; but can 
you not make 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%3A454' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Richard Yates</xref>, 30 September 1857, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:424.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln receives $500 legal fee for services to Mississippi Bridge 
Co. in "Effie Afton" case.
<bibl default='NO'>John W. Starr, <title>Lincoln and the Railroads: A Biographical Study</title> (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1927), 114.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>