<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1859-06-02'>Thursday, June 2, 1859.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln writes to John S. Wolfe of Carlinville that he may use his 
name as reference "if J. M. Palmer says 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%3A112' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Endorsement: John S. Wolfe to Lincoln</xref>, [1 June 1859], <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 3:384.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1859-06-03'>Friday, June 3, 1859.</date>
            <place key='41.8500, -87.6500' teiForm='name'>Chicago, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
[On May 30, 1859 Jonathan Haines of Pekin wrote Lincoln letter not 
received until June 9, 1859.
<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%3A114' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Jonathan Haines</xref>, 9 June 1859, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 3:384-85.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln would have received it by June 3, 1859 had he been in 
Springfield, where someone charges to Lincoln's account at Diller's 
Drug Store $2 for "bot. brandy."
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Day Book</title>, Diller's Drug Store.</bibl>]
</p>
         <p>
Robert buys 11 pounds of sugar and silk cravat at Smith's.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 157.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1859-06-06'>Monday, June 6, 1859.</date>
            <place key='41.8500, -87.6500' teiForm='name'>Chicago, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Willie Lincoln writes Springfield friend, Henry Remann, that he and 
his father are in Chicago. "This town is a very beautiful place," he 
says. "Me and father have a nice little room to ourselves. . . . The 
weather is very fine here."
<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1859-06-07'>Tuesday, June 7, 1859.</date>
            <place key='41.8500, -87.6500' teiForm='name'>Chicago, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
[That Lincoln's visit to Chicago was unexpected is indicated by affidavit he files June 14, 1859 in <name type='case' key='L02117'>Clark v. Jones</name>.
</p>
         <p>
This case is called June 7, 1859 and judgment awarded plaintiff by 
default. In his affidavit of 14th Lincoln states that he was defendant's 
attorney and was unexpectedly absent from Springfield June 6, 1859, 
June 7, 1859, and June 8, 1859.
<bibl default='NO'>Files.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln's drug store account is charged for almond extract, and 
Robert buys six pounds of sugar at Smith's general store.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 152, 157.</bibl>]
</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform' type='Revised'> <dateline> 
  <date value='1859-06-09'>Thursday, June 9, 1859.</date> 
  <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
  </dateline> <p> Lincoln answers letter from Jonathan Haines: "I do believe it
  would be better all round to let me surrender both your cases to some lawyer at
  Chicago. I really can not give them proper attention." Lincoln writes to Ohio
  Governor Salmon P. Chase regarding the Ohio Republican party's recent
  convention, where delegates called for a "repeal of the atrocious Fugitive
  Slave Law." Lincoln notes, "I have no doubt that if that plank be even
  <uLine>introduced</uLine> into the next Republican National convention, it will
  explode it. Once introduced, its supporters and it's opponents will quarrel
  irreconcilably. . . . I enter upon no argument one way or the other; but I
  assure you the cause of Republicanism is hopeless in Illinois, if it be in any
  way made responsible for that plank." <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%3A114' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Jonathan Haines</xref>,
  9 June 1859, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 3:384-85;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln3;node=lincoln3%3A113' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Salmon P. Chase</xref>,
  9 June 1859, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:384.</bibl> </p> <p>
  In evening the Lincolns entertain. <bibl default='NO'>Browning,
  <title corresp='books_Browning'>Diary</title>.</bibl> </p> <p>
  <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> buys 16 yards of
  "Grenadine" ($32) and ice cream salt at Smith's store. <bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>,
  157.</bibl> </p> </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1859-06-10'>Friday, June 10, 1859.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln &amp; Herndon have three cases in U.S. Circuit Court. In <name type='case' key='L02117'>Clark v. Jones</name>, in which their client defaulted when case was called June 7, 1859, they enter motion to set aside judgment. In <name type='case' key='L02202'>Ryland &amp; Hatch v. Linder &amp; Tremble</name>, in which, as defendant's attorneys, they were ruled to plead by this day, rule is extended to June 13, 1859. In <name type='case' key='L02114'>Butler, Cecil, &amp; Rawson v. H. Bell &amp; Co.</name> Lincoln files plea of actio non.
<bibl default='NO'>Record; Files.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Robert buys six dozen eggs at Smith's.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 157.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1859-06-11'>Saturday, June 11, 1859.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield,
  IL</place>. </dateline>
         <p> In U.S. Circuit Court Lincoln is busy with 
  <name type='case' key='L02120'>Cochran &amp; Hall v. Camp et al.</name>, in
  which he represents defendant. He takes deposition of Irwin Camp, defendant,
  and opens and examines deposition of plaintiff's witnesses. Then he moves for
  continuance, and files affidavit in support of motion. <bibl default='NO'>Files.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> He deposits $225 in his bank account. <bibl default='NO'>Marine Bank Ledger.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> 
            <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> buys cloth and boys' socks at
  Smith's. <bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>,
  157.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1859-06-13'>Monday, June 13, 1859.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
In <name type='case' key='L02202'>Ryland &amp; Hatch v. Linder &amp; Tremble</name>, Lincoln files plea of general issue. He files praecipe in <name type='case' key='L02303'>Howland v. Peoria &amp; Hannibal RR</name>
            <bibl default='NO'>Files.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
He buys $2 bottle of brandy at his drug store.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Day Book</title>, Diller's Drug Store.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
            <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> returns pair of socks to Smith's, and buys more cloth.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 157.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1859-06-14'>Tuesday, June 14, 1859.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln files documents in U.S. Circuit Court: declaration in <name type='case' key='L02303'>Howland v. Peoria &amp; Hannibal RR</name>; and, in <name type='case' key='L02117'>Clark v. Jones</name>, his own affidavit and that of defendant.
<bibl default='NO'>Files.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
He takes tea at home of Jesse K. Dubois along with Browning, 
Williams, Grimshaw, and others.
<bibl default='NO'>Browning, <title corresp='books_Browning'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform' type='Revised'> <dateline> 
  <date value='1859-06-15'>Wednesday, June 15, 1859.</date> 
  <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
  </dateline> <p> Lincoln writes to Chicago attorney Henry A. Clark regarding the
  U.S. Circuit Court cases of <name type='case' key='L02120'>Cochran &amp; Hall
  v. Camp et al.</name>, and <name type='case' key='L02121'>Cochran &amp; Hall v.
  Morrison et al.</name> The cases involve a dispute over titles to government
  land warrants. Lincoln writes, "The cases . . . are already continued. I have
  never had any definite arrangement with any one about a fee on these cases; and
  the consequence is I am bothered with them every court, without understanding
  any thing about them. I blame no one for this; but it would be better all round
  for me to either get out of the cases, or get in deep enough to understand and
  prepare them." He sends draft in payment for Chicago "Press &amp; Tribune" for
  another year. <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%3A116' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Henry A. Clark</xref>,
  15 June 1859, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 3:385;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln3;node=lincoln3%3A115' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the Chicago
  <title>Press and Tribune</title> Company</xref>, 15 June 1859,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:385.</bibl> </p> </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1859-06-16'>Thursday, June 16, 1859.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
In U.S. Circuit Court Lincoln files plaintiff's declaration in <name type='case' key='L02190'>Pearl v. McKnight et al.</name>&#8212;suit brought to collect on two promissory notes for $250 each.
<bibl default='NO'>Files.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform' type='Revised'> <dateline> 
  <date value='1859-06-17'>Friday, June 17, 1859.</date> 
  <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
  </dateline> <p>In the U.S. Circuit Court case of <name type='case' key='L02166'>Lee, Murphy &amp; Avery v. Adams</name>, Lincoln files a
  declaration for the plaintiffs, of New York. Illinois resident Joseph H. Adams
  purchased $3,461.32, worth of goods, including fur hats, gloves, and capes from
  the plaintiffs. The plaintiffs are suing Adams, who "although often requested
  so to do . . . has not as yet paid the said sum of money, or any part thereof,
  but so to do has hitherto wholly neglected and refused, and still does neglect
  and refuse [to pay]." The plaintiffs seek $5,000, in damages. 
  <bibl>Declaration, filed 17 June 1859, <title>Lee, Murphy, &amp; Avery v.
  Adams</title>, case file 717, Record Group 21, National Archives and Records
  Administration, Great Lakes Region, Chicago, IL.</bibl></p><p> In two other
  cases, <name type='case' key='L02199'>Rice v. Wing</name>, and 
  <name type='case' key='L02234'>Whiting v. Mudge</name>, Lincoln, Logan, and
  Gillespie enter motion for rule on plaintiffs to join in demurrer by June 21,
  1859. <bibl default='NO'>Files; Record.</bibl> </p> <p> Robert buys 11 pounds
  of sugar at Smith's. <bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 157.</bibl> </p> </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1859-06-18'>Saturday, June 18, 1859.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln finally reopens <name type='case' key='L02117'>Clark v. Jones</name>. Court orders that defendant, whom Lincoln represents, be permitted to plead, that judgment shall stand, although no execution is to issue until further order. Lincoln files plea and notice.
<bibl default='NO'>Record; Files.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
He spends $4.25 on carriage repairs.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Obed Lewis Account Books</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1859-06-20'>Monday, June 20, 1859.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield,
  IL</place>. </dateline>
         <p> In U.S. Circuit Court 
  <name type='case' key='L02334'>Beaver v. Taylor &amp; Gilbert</name> is
  submitted without argument and taken under advisement. Lincoln appears for
  defendant. <bibl default='NO'> 
               <title>Illinois State Journal</title>, 21 June 1859.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln writes to Ohio Governor Salmon P. Chase about the Republican
  Party's platform. Lincoln and Chase differ on whether or not the Republicans
  should advocate for the Fugitive Slave Law's "repeal." Lincoln ponders
  Congress's "constitutional authority," and writes, "But I did not write
  you . . . with any view of discussing the constitutional question. My only object
  was to impress you with what I believe is true, that the introduction of a
  proposition for repeal of the Fugitive Slave law, into the next Republican
  National convention, will explode the convention and the 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=lincoln3;node=lincoln3%3A117' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Salmon P. Chase</xref>, 20 June 1859, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 3:386.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln &amp;
  Herndon collect $20 for services to David Westfall estate. <bibl default='NO'>Probate
  File.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1859-06-21'>Tuesday, June
  21, 1859.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Disgusted with
  demands of plaintiffs in <name type='case'>Ambos et al. v. Barrett</name>,
  Lincoln writes Charles Ambos; "I would now very gladly surrender the charge of
  the case to anyone you would designate, without charging anything for the much
  trouble I have already had." <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%3A118' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Charles Ambos</xref>, 21 June 1859, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 3:386-87.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> He argues
  demurrers in <name type='case' key='L02199'>Rice v. Wing</name> (see January 3,
  1860) and <name type='case' key='L02234'>Whiting v. Mudge</name>, continued
  from June 17, 1859. <bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Robert buys paper of pepper
  at Smith's. <bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal
  Finances</title>, 157.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1859-06-22'>Wednesday, June 22, 1859.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Court overrules defendants' demurrers in two cases argued yesterday. 
Lincoln appeared for defendants.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1859-06-23'>Thursday, June 23, 1859.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>. </dateline>
         <p> In 
  <name type='case' key='L02202'>Ryland &amp; Hatch v. Linder &amp;
  Tremble</name>, continued from June 13, 1859, court finds for plaintiffs in sum
  of $919.72. <bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln writes to Nathan Sargent, of
  Washington, D.C., in response to Sargent's request for Lincoln's opinion
  regarding slavery and the Republican Party's platform. Lincoln writes, "Your
  platform proposes to allow the spread, and nationalization of slavery to
  proceed without let or hindrance, save only that it shall not receive supplies
  directly from Africa. Surely you do not seriously believe the Republicans can
  come to any such terms. . . . If the [Democrats] shall be beaten in 1860, it has to
  be done by the North; no human invention can deprive them of the South." <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%3A119' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Nathan Sargent</xref>, 23 June 1859, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 3:387-88.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1859-06-24'>Friday, June 24, 1859.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln files praecipe and bond for costs in <name type='case' key='L02099'>Allen &amp; McGrady v. Illinois River RR</name> in U.S. Circuit Court.
<bibl default='NO'>Files.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
He writes Dave Walker of Ottawa that prior engagement prevents him 
attending July 4, 1859 rally. "I am compelled to economise time this 
year."
<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%3A120' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Dave Walker</xref>, 24 June 1859, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 3:388.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1859-06-25'>Saturday, June 25, 1859.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln has his carriage painted, new silk curtains and glass hooks 
attached, and top oiled, for $19.50.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Obed Lewis Account Books</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1859-06-27'>Monday, June 27, 1859.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln charges "Tripoli" (15&#162;) to his drug store account, and 
Robert charges 11 pounds of sugar to Lincoln's account at Smith's.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 152, 157.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1859-06-28'>Tuesday, June 28, 1859.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln has two cases in U.S. Circuit Court. <name type='case' key='L02147'>Gaylord, Son &amp; Co. v. Lansing &amp; Ostrom</name>, in which he represents plaintiffs, is settled by agreement, plaintiffs consenting that judgment for $1,080.31 be entered against them, and defendants agreeing that execution be stayed six months. In <name type='case' key='L02303'>Howland v. Peoria &amp; Hannibal RR</name>, Lincoln argues defendant's demurrer.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1859-06-29'>Wednesday, June 29, 1859.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Court overrules demurrer in Peoria and Hannibal Railroad case. Lincoln, plaintiff's attorney, dismisses <name type='case' key='L02276'>S. C. Davis &amp; Co. v. Mace</name> at his client's costs.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
            <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> buys 30&#189; yards "Lawn" at Smith's.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 157.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1859-06-30'>Thursday, June 30, 1859.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln moves that <name type='case' key='L02143'>Emmitt v. Barret</name>, before court often during 1858, be dismissed at costs of plaintiff, his client.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
            <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> buys handkerchiefs, edging, and needles at Smith's.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 157.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>