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<date value='1858-05-01'>Saturday, May 1, 1858.</date>
<place key='40.1167, -87.6167' teiForm='name'>Danville, IL</place>.
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<p>
Lincoln writes receipt: "Received, May 1, 1858, of William Spencer,
by the hand of H. W. Beckwith, twenty-five dollars in full of all
fees in said Spencer's cases in the Vermilion Circuit Court against
Hamilton White, and generally, in full of all demands up to date. A.
Lincoln."
<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
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<date value='1858-05-06'>Thursday, May 6, 1858.</date>
<place key='40.0167, -90.4167' teiForm='name'>Beardstown, IL</place>.
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<p>
Lincoln arrives and registers at Dunbaugh House.
<bibl default='NO'>Barton, <title corresp='books_Barton'>Life of Lincoln</title>, 1:311; ISLA—Mrs. H. E. English to H. E. Pratt,
19 July 1941.</bibl>
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<date value='1858-05-07'>Friday, May 7, 1858.</date>
<place key='40.0167, -90.4167' teiForm='name'>Beardstown, IL</place>.
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<p>
Lincoln clears Duff Armstrong, son of his old friend Jack Armstrong,
of murder charge. He discredits testimony of state's star witness by
showing, with almanac, that there could not have been sufficient
moonlight for witness to have seen events he described in detail.
Lincoln, in return for past favors, offered his services free.
<bibl default='NO'>Barton, <title corresp='books_Barton'>Life of Lincoln</title>, 1:311; Record.</bibl>
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<date value='1858-05-08'>Saturday, May 8, 1858.</date>
<place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place> and <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
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<p>
Waiting in Great Western station at Jacksonville for train to
Springfield, stretched out on two seats, Lincoln encounters Henry
Stryker, lawyer, also bound for Springfield. Stryker asks Lincoln's
advice on how to handle law case. Lincoln makes suggestions, Stryker
follows them and wins case. At his office, Lincoln looks through
accumulated mail.
<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%3A491' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Elihu B. Washburne</xref>, 10 May 1858, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:445-46; ISLA—Mrs. H. E. English to H. E. Pratt, 19 July 1941.</bibl>
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<date value='1858-05-10'>Monday, May
10, 1858.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>. </dateline>
<p> Lincoln begins
answering his mail. "Mark me down on your side," he notes on letter from Dr.
Julius Lehmann of Bloomington, who has written about case against Herman
Schroeder. He returns Lehmann's letter, and on January 8, 1859 wins $5,000
judgment for him. Jonathan K. Cooper of Peoria, who wrote asking Lincoln's help
in getting George Phelps appointed prosecuting attorney, is told that two
others are ahead of Phelps, whom he does not know. <bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
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<p> He writes to Washburne: "I have just reached home from the circuit, and
found your letter of the 2nd. and for which I thank you. . . . I must repeat
that I think the thing did not originate in malice to you, or to any one; and
that the best way all round is to now forget it entirely." To J. M. Lucas of
Washington he writes of "curious state" of politics. Democrats are disposed to
stick to Douglas, but are horrified at prospect of following him out of party.
<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%3A491' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
Lincoln to Elihu B. Washburne</xref>, 10 May 1858,
<title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:445-46;
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A490' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
Lincoln to Josiah M. Lucas</xref>, 10 May 1858, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:445.</bibl>
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<date value='1858-05-11'>Tuesday, May 11, 1858.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
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<p>
Lincoln writes to Joseph Means, farmer, in reply to questions about
land tenure.
<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%3A492' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Joseph Means</xref>, 11 May 1858, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:446.</bibl>
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<date value='1858-05-13'>Thursday, May 13, 1858.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
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<p>
Lincoln receives another letter from Washburne.
<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%3A494' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Elihu B. Washburne</xref>, 15 May 1858, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:447.</bibl>
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<date value='1858-05-15'>Saturday, May 15, 1858.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
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<p>
To Washburne Lincoln writes: "I think our prospects gradually, and
steadily, grow better; though we are not yet clear out of the woods
by a great deal. There is still some effort to make trouble out of
'Americanism.' " He answers last of accumulated mail by replying to
J. F. Alexander of Greenville, Ill., who invited him to speak in Bond
County. After waiting week, Lincoln decided he can make no definite
engagement this early. "When I once begin making political speeches I
shall have no respite till November. The <uLine>labor</uLine> of that
I might endure, but I really can not spare the time from my business."
<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%3A494' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Elihu B. Washburne</xref>, 15 May 1858, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:447; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A493' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Jediah F. Alexander</xref>, 15 May 1858, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:446-47.</bibl>
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<date value='1858-05-17'>Monday, May 17, 1858.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
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<p> In the U. S. Circuit Court, Lincoln & Herndon represent the
plaintiff Mark Hamilton, who is suing Jesse Cooper for $3,000 in damages, in
the case of <name type='case' key='L02294'>Hamilton v. Cooper</name>. Lincoln
files a praecipe with the Clerk of the court. The praecipe instructs the court
to notify Cooper, who lives in Carrollton, Illinois, of the case against him.
Lincoln also names himself as a surety in the suit by signing a bond for costs.
<bibl default='NO'>Praecipe, filed 17 May 1858, <ital>Hamilton v. Cooper</ital>, Record
Group 21, case file 379, U.S. Circuit Court, Southern District of Illinois,
National Archives and Records Administration, Great Lakes Region, Chicago, IL;
Bond for Costs, 17 May 1858, <ital>Hamilton v. Cooper</ital>, Private
Collection.</bibl>
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<date value='1858-05-18'>Tuesday, May 18, 1858.</date>
<place key='38.8833, -90.1833' teiForm='name'>Alton, IL</place> and <place key='38.8000, -89.9500' teiForm='name'>Edwardsville, IL</place>.
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<p>
Lincoln and Mark W. Delahay go from Alton to Edwardsville, where
Lincoln makes "fine Republican speech."
<bibl default='NO'>Delahay to Trumbull, 22 May 1858, Lyman Trumbull 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%3A495' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Speech at Edwardsville, Illinois</xref>, 18 May 1858, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:447.</bibl>
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<date value='1858-05-20'>Thursday, May 20, 1858.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
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<p>
Lincoln, representing plaintiff, files replication in <name type='case' key='L02171'>Macready v. Alton, Illinois</name> in U.S. Circuit Court. (He filed declaration April 17, 1858.)
<bibl default='NO'>Files.</bibl>
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He writes opinion concerning right to planks taken from land owned by
W. B. Warren.
<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%3A497' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Opinion Written for William B. Warren</xref>, 20 May 1858, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:454.</bibl>
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<date value='1858-05-22'>Saturday, May 22, 1858.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
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In U.S. Circuit Court Lincoln files praecipe in <name type='case' key='L02278'>S. C. Davis & Co. v. Monical & Son</name>.
<bibl default='NO'>Files.</bibl>
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He writes William H. Davenport about state of Davenport's land case
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%3A498' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to William H. Davenport</xref>, 22 May 1858, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:454-55.</bibl>
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<date value='1858-05-26'>Wednesday, May 26, 1858.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
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Lincoln files declarations in three cases in U.S. Circuit Court: <name type='case' key='L02104'>Anderson, Lamoureux & Co. v. Robinson</name> (see June 23, 1858); <name type='case' key='L02294'>Hamilton v. Cooper</name> (see June 19, 1858); and <name type='case' key='L02278'>S. C. Davis & Co. v. Monical & Son</name>. Nonpayment of promissory notes and bill of exchange is alleged, and damages of $4,000, $3,000, and $1,200 respectively are sought.
<bibl default='NO'>Files.</bibl>
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<date value='1858-05-27'>Thursday, May 27, 1858.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield,
IL</place>. </dateline>
<p> Lincoln writes to Washburne again. He is worried
about political affairs, which "just now bear a very <uLine>mixed</uLine> and
<uLine>incongruous</uLine> aspect." Local signs indicate reconciliation between
Douglas and Buchanan, but rumor from Chicago has it that Douglas will assume
Free-Soil ground and assail Buchanan when he returns to Illinois. <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%3A499' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
Lincoln to Elihu B. Washburne</xref>, 27 May 1858,
<title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:455.</bibl>
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<p>Lincoln writes
to Samuel Caldwell, who, on March 17, had written to Lincoln "asking an
opportunity to study law in my office." Lincoln replies, "It would afford me
pleasure to oblige you; but you perhaps are not aware that I do not keep office
in a way that is most suitable for a young man to study law in. I am from home
perhaps more than half my time, so that as a preceptor I should be of no value.
You will find many better opportunities, here than in my office."
<bibl default='NO'>
<xref from='ROOT' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Samuel Caldwell</xref>, 27 May 1858,
<title>CW</title>, 11:14-15.</bibl>
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<date value='1858-05-28'>Friday, May 28, 1858.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
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In <name type='case' key='L02159'>Joyner v. Bowen & Marvel</name> in U.S. Circuit Court Lincoln files separate answer and affidavit of defendant Daniel Bowen. Validity of land title is involved. Lincoln pleads statute of limitations.
<bibl default='NO'>Files.</bibl>
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He writes to I. S. Piper opinion on debt question.
<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%3A500' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to I[srael?] S. Piper</xref>, 28 May 1858, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:455-56.</bibl>
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<date value='1858-05-31'>Monday,
May 31, 1858.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
<p>Lincoln writes to John M. Clark of Vincennes, Iowa, about
Lincoln's attempts to collect a debt owed to Clark by a gentleman with the
surname of Whitten. Lincoln admits to Clark that he "mislaid the note" that
Clark had sent him "long ago." Lincoln informs Clark that he did "not think it
could be collected." Lincoln states that Whitten currently works in Chicago,
and Lincoln will once again try to collect the debt when he is in
Chicago—"in July perhaps." <bibl default='NO'>Abraham Lincoln to John M. Clark, 31 May
1858, William P. Palmer Collection, Western Reserve Historical Society,
Cleveland, OH.</bibl>
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