<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1859-04-01'>Friday, April 1, 1859.</date>
            <place key='40.1333, -89.3500' teiForm='name'>Lincoln, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
            <name type='case' key='L00967'>Campbell v. McCoy &amp; Blatchford</name> is tried by jury, which finds for plaintiffs in sum of $1,155.55. Lincoln and Lacey represent defendants. Lincoln files praecipe and declaration in <name type='case' key='L01004'>Foster v. Cosby</name>.
<bibl default='NO'>Record; Files.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
He writes and files, for defendants, pleas in <name type='case' key='L01044'>Goltra v. Ewing et al.</name> and <name type='case'>Davis &amp; Co. v. Burt</name>, acting with Parks.
<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
[On unspecified day this month Lincoln pays $5 by check to "Dr. P. Moran."
<bibl default='NO'>DLC&#8212;Original.</bibl>]
</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1859-04-02'>Saturday, April 2, 1859.</date>
            <place key='40.1333, -89.3500' teiForm='name'>Lincoln, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
            <name type='case' key='L01044'>Goltra v. Ewing et al.</name> is continued. <name type='case' key='L00968'>Thompson v. Crane</name>, Lincoln and Lacey for plaintiff, is tried by jury, which awards their client $45.80 plus part of costs. Lincoln also sits as judge on 33 cases.
<bibl default='NO'>Record; Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
[<person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> buys another boy's hat.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 155.</bibl>]
</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1859-04-04'>Monday, April 4, 1859.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place> and <place key='40.4833, -88.9833' teiForm='name'>Bloomington, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln makes $50 bank deposit.
<bibl default='NO'>Marine Bank Ledger.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
With two Bloomington lawyers, he signs letter to Gov. Bissell 
recommending Charles J. Beattie of Livingston County as 20th Judicial 
Circuit prosecuting attorney.
<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%3A97' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>John M. Scott, W. H. Hanna, and Abraham Lincoln to William H. Bissell</xref>, 4 April 1859, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 3:374.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln's account is charged 38&#162; for "Flannel for Gun Cover," 
which Robert buys at John Williams' store. He purchases four dozen 
eggs at Smith's.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 149, 155.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1859-04-06'>Wednesday, April 6, 1859.</date>
            <place key='40.4833, -88.9833' teiForm='name'>Bloomington, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln declines, on ground of other engagements, invitation from H. 
L. Pierce and others to attend meeting in Boston April 28, 1859 in 
honor of birth of Thomas Jefferson. In his letter he argues that 
Republicans, rather than Democrats, are Jefferson's true disciples. 
Although in Bloomington, Lincoln datelines letter "Springfield," 
evidently so that Boston committee will not mislocate his residence.
<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%3A98' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Henry L. Pierce and Others</xref>, 6 April 1859, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 3:374-76.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
In court he represents plaintiffs in <name type='case' key='L05560'>Browning &amp; Bushnell v. Price &amp; Fell</name>, assumpsit. Court tries case and awards plaintiffs $370.82 damages.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
[Robert buys half-pound of tea at Smith's store.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 155.</bibl>]
</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1859-04-08'>Friday, April
  8, 1859.</date> 
            <place key='40.4833, -88.9833' teiForm='name'>Bloomington, IL</place>. </dateline>
         <p> In court
  Lincoln is occupied with case involving Bloomington Gas Light and Coke Co.,
  which had been sold under mechanic's lien. Lincoln is one of counsel for
  purchaser, who is resisting motion to set aside sale. <bibl default='NO'>Bloomington
  Pantagraph, 13 April 1859.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> In evening Lincoln is scheduled to
  lecture on Inventions, but audience is so small engagement is cancelled. 
  <bibl default='NO'>Bloomington Pantagraph, 6 April 1859, 9 April 1859, 13 April 1859;
  IHi&#8212;<title>Journal</title>, XXVIII, 96-7; Sherman D. Wakefield,
  <title>How Lincoln Became President: The Part Played by Bloomington, Illinois,
  and Certain of Its Citizens in Preparing Him for the Presidency and Securing
  his Nomination and Election</title> (New York: Wilson-Erickson, 1936),
  101-2.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> [Robert buys six bars of lead and charges to his
  father's account at John Williams &amp; Co. <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='1859-04-09'>Saturday, April 9, 1859.</date>
            <place key='40.4833, -88.9833' teiForm='name'>Bloomington, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
[Robert buys sugar and candles at Smith's store.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 155.</bibl>]
</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1859-04-10'>Sunday, April 10, 1859.</date>
            <place key='40.4833, -88.9833' teiForm='name'>Bloomington, IL</place> and <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln reaches home in evening.
<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%3A99' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Gustave P. Koerner</xref>, 11 April 1859, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 3:376-77.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1859-04-11'>Monday, April 11, 1859.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln writes Koerner: "The meeting of the Central committee was at 
Bloomington, and not here. I was there attending court; and, in 
common with several other outsiders, one of whom was Judge Trumbull, 
was in conference with the committee, to some extent." He drafted 
resolution protesting "against any distinction between native and 
naturalized citizens, as to the right of suffrage," but was called 
from meeting room while matter was being discussed, forgot it, and 
does not know what committee did. He writes and signs, with two other 
executive committeemen of the 4th Ward Republicans, call for ward 
meeting April 13, 1859 to nominate alderman candidate.
<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%3A99' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Gustave P. Koerner</xref>, 11 April 1859, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 3:376-77; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln3;node=lincoln3%3A100' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Call for Republican Meeting</xref>, 11 April 1859, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 3:377.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1859-04-13'>Wednesday, April 13, 1859.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
[<person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> buys and charges ribbon at Smith's store.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 155.</bibl>]
</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1859-04-14'>Thursday, April 14, 1859.</date>
            <place key='40.4833, -88.9833' teiForm='name'>Bloomington, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Court adjourns in afternoon and Lincoln, with bar, attends funeral of 
Mrs. Ward Hill Lamon.
<bibl default='NO'>Bloomington Pantagraph, 20 April 1859.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
[Lincoln's account at Smith's store is charged 50&#162; for tacks and 
peck of potatoes, <bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 155</bibl>.]
</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1859-04-16'>Saturday, April 16, 1859.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
In response to letter from T. J. Pickett, Rock Island editor, asking 
permission to propose his name as presidential candidate, Lincoln 
writes: "I must, in candor, say I do not think myself fit for the 
Presidency. I certainly am flattered, and gratified, that some 
partial friends think of me in that connection; but I really think it 
best for our cause that no concerted effort, such as you suggest, 
should be made." He writes Williams and Packard, Bloomington lawyers, 
about law case.
<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%3A101' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Thomas J. Pickett</xref>, 16 April 1859, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 3:377-78; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln3;node=lincoln3%3A102' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Robert E. Williams and Major W. Packard</xref>, 16 April 1859, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:378.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
            <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> charges 16 yards silk at Smith's store.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 155-56.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1859-04-18'>Monday, April 18, 1859.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
[Champaign Circuit Court convenes for spring term.]
</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1859-04-19'>Tuesday, April 19, 1859.</date>
            <place key='40.1000, -88.2000' teiForm='name'>Urbana, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln writes plaintiff's plea in <name type='case' key='L01314'>Champaign County, Illinois v. West Urbana, Illinois</name> that defendant be ruled to plead by April 25, 1859.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
[<person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> buys yard goods, buttons, thread, and comb at Smith's store.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 155-56.</bibl>]
</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1859-04-20'>Wednesday, April 20, 1859.</date>
            <place key='40.1000, -88.2000' teiForm='name'>Urbana, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Six cases in ejectment, in which Lincoln and firm of Coler, Sims, 
&amp; Sheldon represent plaintiffs, are dismissed on motion of 
plaintiffs and at their costs.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1859-04-21'>Thursday, April 21, 1859.</date> 
            <place key='40.1000, -88.2000' teiForm='name'>Urbana,
  IL</place>. </dateline>
         <p> 
            <name type='case' key='L01488'>People v.
  Patterson</name>, manslaughter, is tried by jury, which finds accused guilty.
  He is sentenced to three years. Lincoln and Swett act for defense. 
  <bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> [Robert brings home sugar and cinnamon from
  Smith's. <bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>,
  156.</bibl>] </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1859-04-23'>Saturday, April 23, 1859.</date>
            <place key='40.1000, -88.2000' teiForm='name'>Urbana, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
[<person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> buys tablecloth, two kinds of silk, and pins at Smith's.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 156.</bibl>]
</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1859-04-25'>Monday, April 25, 1859.</date>
            <place key='40.1000, -88.2000' teiForm='name'>Urbana, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln collects fee for services in Patterson case in form of note 
for $60 from William and Golden Patterson (paid February 1866 to 
Lincoln's estate).
<bibl default='NO'>Lincoln Estate Inventory.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1859-04-26'>Tuesday, April 26, 1859.</date>
            <place key='40.1000, -88.2000' teiForm='name'>Urbana, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
[<person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> buys more sewing materials and $5 silk hat at Smith's.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 156.</bibl>]
</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1859-04-27'>Wednesday, April 27, 1859.</date>
            <place key='40.1000, -88.2000' teiForm='name'>Urbana, IL</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Lincoln calls on editor of "Central Illinois Gazette" in West Urbana (Champaign), who notes
    visit: "We had the pleasure of introducing to the hospitalities of our sanctum a few days since
    the Hon. Abraham Lincoln. Few men can make an hour pass away more agreeably." <bibl default='NO'>Central
     Illinois Gazette, in <title>Illinois State Journal</title>, 12 May 1859; J. W. Scroggs to
     Herndon, 3 October 1866, William H. Herndon Papers, Henry E. Huntington Library, San Marino,
     CA.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> In court Lincoln writes praecipe and answer of guardian <ital>ad litem</ital> in <name type='case'>Mary Ann Hillman v. heirs of Oliver Hillman</name>, petition for partition.
     <bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> [<person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> buys more sewing materials at Smith's.
     <bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 156.</bibl>] </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1859-04-28'>Thursday, April 28, 1859.</date>
            <place key='40.1000, -88.2000' teiForm='name'>Urbana, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln argues attachment case, <name type='case' key='L01425'>Pepper v. Shouse et al.</name>, in Circuit Court. With Coler, he represents defendants, while Somers and O. L. Davis appear for plaintiff. Court decides for plaintiff.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1859-04-29'>Friday, April 29, 1859.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln returns from circuit, and deposits $100 in Marine &amp; Fire 
Insurance Co.
<bibl default='NO'>Marine Bank Ledger.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
In <name type='case' key='L04290'>People v. Abraham Nash</name>, alias Yankee Sullivan, change of venue from Logan County, Sangamon Circuit Court overrules motion of defendant's attorneys, made April 27, 1859, that case be stricken from docket. Defense then moves indictment be quashed.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1859-04-30'>Saturday, April 30, 1859.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln wins <name type='case' key='L04290'>People v. Nash</name> alias Sullivan when motion to quash indictment is argued and allowed.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln writes to Salmon P. Chase of Ohio on 1858 campaign. "Of 
course I would have preferred success; but failing in that, I have no 
regrets for having rejected all advice to the contrary, and 
resolutely made the struggle." Had Republicans gone for Douglas, "the 
Republican cause would have been anihilated in Illinois, and, as I 
think, demoralized, and prostrated everywhere for years, if not 
forever."
<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%3A103' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Salmon P. Chase</xref>, 30 April 1859, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 3:378.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
            <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> sends Robert to Smith's store to exchange hats and to 
buy sugar, shoes, and crockery.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 156.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>