<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1859-02-01'>Tuesday, February 1, 1859.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln writes M. W. Delahay, now living in Kansas, that he expects 
to visit Council Bluffs during year. He cannot tell just when, for he 
must keep close watch on court 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=lincoln3;node=lincoln3%3A85' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Mark W. Delahay</xref>, 1 February 1859, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 3:355.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
In Supreme Court, <name type='case' key='L02468'>People v. Illinois Central RR</name> is called. Attorneys file agreed case, to be argued at Ottawa (see July 14, 1859, January 12, 1860).
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Robert buys paper of tacks (10&#162;) at Smith's store.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 154.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1859-02-02'>Wednesday, February 2, 1859.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
The Lincolns entertain. Browning, in Springfield for court sessions, 
writes in his diary: "Cloudy, foggy, muddy, dismal day. . . . At 
large party at Lincoln's at night."
<bibl default='NO'>Browning, <title corresp='books_Browning'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Robert buys 15&#162; "Watch Guard" and charges to Lincoln's account.
<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='1859-02-03'>Thursday, February 3, 1859.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
To Trumbull Lincoln writes letter prompted by recent article hinting 
at rivalry between them. "Any effort to put enmity between you and 
me, is as idle as the wind. . . . I can not conceive it possible for 
me to be a rival of yours, or to take sides against you in favor of 
any rival."
<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%3A86' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Lyman Trumbull</xref>, 3 February 1859, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 3:355-56.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln deposits $50 at his bank.
<bibl default='NO'>Marine Bank Ledger.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1859-02-04'>Friday, February 4, 1859.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Robert gets syrup, sugar, and candles at Smith's store.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 154.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1859-02-05'>Saturday, February 5, 1859.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield,
  IL</place>. </dateline>
         <p> In U.S. Circuit Court Lincoln files declaration in 
  <name type='case' key='L02102'>Ammidown v. Keyes</name>, suit brought to
  collect note for $6,662.59. <bibl default='NO'>Files.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln buys four
  pounds of starch at Corneau &amp; Diller. <bibl default='NO'>Pratt,
  <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 152.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1859-02-08'>Tuesday, February 8, 1859.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
In <name type='case' key='L02102'>Ammidown v. Keyes</name> leave is granted Lincoln &amp; Herndon, attorneys for plaintiff, to withdraw note on which suit is brought.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln writes $1.47 check to Sangamon County tax collector.
<bibl default='NO'>DLC&#8212;Original.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Robert pays $6 to Smith's store for three loads of wood.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 154.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1859-02-09'>Wednesday, February 9, 1859.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln &amp; Herndon take continuance when <name type='case' key='L02276'>S. C. Davis &amp; Co. v. Mace</name> is called in U.S. Circuit Court.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1859-02-10'>Thursday, February 10, 1859.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
            <name type='case' key='L02206'>Southworth, Slanson &amp; Co. v. Petzer</name> comes to trial in U.S. Circuit Court. By agreement jury is waived and case submitted to court. Verdict is for plaintiffs, whose damages are assessed at $507.12. Lincoln &amp; Herndon represents defendant.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln pays $1.75 to John F. Baker, through his account at Smith's 
store, for load of wood.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 154.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1859-02-11'>Friday, February 11, 1859.</date>
            <place key='39.7333, -90.2167' teiForm='name'>Jacksonville, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln lectures on "Discoveries and Inventions." Address, delivered 
in Congregational Church, is sponsored by Phi Alpha Society of 
Illinois College, which had elected Lincoln honorary member. 
"Journal" says of Lincoln's address: "It was received with repeated 
and hearty bursts of applause." After lecture Lincoln is guest of 
honor at tea party given by Dr. Owen M. Long at his home.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Illinois State Journal</title>, 14 February 1859; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln3;node=lincoln3%3A87' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Second Lecture on Discoveries and Inventions</xref>, [11 February 1859], <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 3:356-63; Frank J. Heinl, <title>An Epitome of Jacksonville History</title> (Jacksonville, IL: n.p., 1925), 20; ISLA&#8212;Mrs. H. E. English to H. E. Pratt, 19 July 1941.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1859-02-14'>Monday, February 14, 1859.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln collects $1,000 as part payment of claim on which he brought suit in U.S. Circuit Court, <name type='case' key='L02101'>Ambos v. James A. Barret &amp; Co.</name>, filed December 9, 1858. On back of copy of several promissory notes he writes: "Received, Feby 14. 1859, on the within one thousand dollars, for which a receipt was this day given J. A. Barrett, by Lincoln &amp; Herndon&#8212;"
<bibl default='NO'>Files.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln buys bottle of castor oil at his drug store, and Robert gets 
11 pounds of sugar at Smith's.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 152, 154.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1859-02-15'>Tuesday, February 15, 1859.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln pays $129 on his account with C. M. Smith, Spring-field 
merchant who married <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person>'s sister. He deposits $60 in his 
bank account.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>C. M. Smith Account Book</title>; Marine Bank Ledger.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1859-02-16'>Wednesday, February 16, 1859.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln credits payment of $50 on two promissory notes made by A. and 
J. Haines of Pekin which he holds. Notes, probably legal fees, are 
for $200 each, and were due October 15, 1858 and January 1, 1859. He 
deposits money at Springfield Marine &amp; Fire Insurance Co.
<bibl default='NO'>Lincoln Estate Inventory; Marine Bank Ledger.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
He writes two checks: $10 to "C. Loch," bootmaker; $2.16 to "P. A. 
Dorwin &amp; Co.," tinware and stove merchants.
<bibl default='NO'>DLC&#8212;Original.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1859-02-17'>Thursday, February 17, 1859.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Robert takes home set of
  knitting needles from Smith's store. <bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 154.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1859-02-18'>Friday, February 18, 1859.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Counsel in <name type='case' key='L02468'>People v. Illinois Central RR</name> stipulate that in event of passage of bill now before legislature there should be no revaluation of property of company, nor appeal from 1857 assessment. Counsel for state agree to remove limit of $13,000,000 and leave valuation entirely to court. Lincoln is one of attorneys for railroad.
<bibl default='NO'>27 Ill. 66.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
He buys cough remedies at his drug store.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 152.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1859-02-19'>Saturday, February 19, 1859.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln deposits $40 in his personal bank account.
<bibl default='NO'>Marine Bank Ledger.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1859-02-21'>Monday, February 21, 1859.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln delivers his "Discoveries and Inventions" lecture at Concert 
Hall. "His theme . . . was handled in a masterly manner, and was 
appreciated by the handful gathered to hear him."
<bibl default='NO'>Illinois State Democrat, 5 March 1859; <title>Illinois State Journal</title>, 21 February 1859.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1859-02-22'>Tuesday, February 22, 1859.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln deposits $625 at Marine &amp; Fire Insurance Co.
<bibl default='NO'>Marine Bank Ledger.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
He writes $10.50 check to "Kingsley North &amp; Co."
<bibl default='NO'>DLC&#8212;Original.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
He writes Gov. Bissell's veto message on apportionment bill recently 
passed by legislature.
<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%3A89' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Veto Message of Apportionment Bill Written for Governor William H. Bissell</xref>, 22 February 1859, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 3:364-65.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1859-02-24'>Thursday, February 24, 1859.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Robert buys and charges sugar, tacks, syrup and candles to A. 
Lincoln's account at Smith's general store.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 154.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1859-02-26'>Saturday, February 26, 1859.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln writes bill of complaint in <name type='case' key='L04416'>Rockwell et al. v. Dubois et al.</name>
            <bibl default='NO'>Emanuel Hertz, <title>Abraham Lincoln: A New Portrait</title>, 2 vols. (New York: Liveright, 1931), 734-50.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1859-02-28'>Monday, February 28, 1859.</date>
            <place key='41.8500, -87.6500' teiForm='name'>Chicago, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln is in Chicago. <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> writes note to O. M. Hatch, who 
intends to be in Chicago, asking him to tell Lincoln that Tad is ill, 
and doctor fears pneumonia. She would be comforted if Lincoln were to 
return.
<bibl default='NO'>ISLA&#8212;Files.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>