January 03, 1859

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            <date value='1859-01-03'>Monday, January 3, 1859.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes to his wife's
  aunt Maria L. Bullock, of Kentucky. Lincoln is attempting to collect money from
  the sale of Bullock's Springfield lots. Lincoln reports, "It annoys me to have
  to say that I can not collect money now. I now believe the quickest way I can
  get your money is for me to buy the debts of you, as soon as I can get in any
  money of my own to do it with. I keep some money loaned at ten per cent; and
  when I can get hold of some, it would be a ready investment for me to just take
  these debts off your hands; and I shall try to do so." <bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln3;node=lincoln3%3A75' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Maria Bullock</xref>, 3 January 1859, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 3:348.</bibl> 
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         <p> Lincoln &amp;
  Herndon collect $289.91 from former sheriff John Cook on execution of 
  <name type='case' key='L02981'>Chambers v. Inslee</name>, which they won for
  plaintiff, and Lincoln signs receipt. <bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl> 
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