<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1860-11-03'>Saturday, November 3, 1860.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln instructs his secretary: "I wish Mr. Nicolay would invite the 
following gentlemen to tea at my house, at 5 P.M. tomorrow. Mr. 
Schenck Mr. Piatt Mr. Cartter Mr. Ogden Mr. Philips Mr. Hatch Mr. 
Dubois Mr. Nicolay&#8212;himself. Saturday, Nov. 3. Lincoln."
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A199' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to John G. Nicolay</xref>, 3 November [1860], <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:136.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1860-11-04'>Sunday, November 4, 1860.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln and guests have tea at Lincoln home.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A199' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to John G. Nicolay</xref>, 3 November [1860], <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:136.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1860-11-05'>Monday, November 5, 1860.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
When Lincoln visits Post Office bystander asks how he is going to 
vote. "For Yates for Governor," he replies. But for President? 
<uLine>"How vote?"</uLine> Lincoln repeats&#8212;"By ballot!" He 
tells a funny story and walks off, arms full of mail.
<bibl default='NO'>N.Y. Tribune, 10 November 1860.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1860-11-06'>Tuesday, November 6, 1860.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Election day. Lincoln spends most of it at his state house office. 
About 3 P.M. he walks quietly to polling place in courthouse. Crowd 
gives him ovation. After cutting his own name from ballot, he votes 
straight ticket. Evening he spends in telegraph office, getting 
returns. Shortly after midnight he and <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> attend supper, 
and soon go home.
<bibl default='NO'>N.Y. Tribune, 7 November 1860, 8 November 1860.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1860-11-07'>Wednesday, November 7, 1860.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Reporter writes: "Mr. Lincoln is this morning receiving the heartiest 
congratulations of his friends, or, in other words, of the entire 
community. His room at the State House is constantly thronged." In 
evening Republicans gather at state house, where, at 7:30, Lincoln, 
Hatch, and others appear. Lincoln listens to speeches, but declines 
to give one.
<bibl default='NO'>N.Y. Tribune, 8 November 1860.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1860-11-08'>Thursday, November 8, 1860.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln is still receiving felicitations. Local Republicans however, 
are somewhat concerned over legislature, returns being so incomplete 
as to leave Trumbull's re-election in doubt.
<bibl default='NO'>N.Y. Tribune, 9 November 1860.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln writes Hamlin that he is anxious for personal interview, and 
asks him to meet him in Chicago.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A201' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Hannibal Hamlin</xref>, 8 November 1860, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:136.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1860-11-09'>Friday, November 9, 1860.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Late returns forecast Trumbull's re-election. But trouble is brewing 
south. Lincoln reads dispatch that he has been hanged in effigy at 
Pensacola, Florida. Correspondent reports: "I am told that Mr. 
Lincoln considers the feeling at the South to be limited to a very 
small number, though very intense."
<bibl default='NO'>N.Y. Tribune, 10 November 1860.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln thanks John Comstock of Peoria for barrel of flour 
manufactured during Republican procession at Peoria August 31, 1860. 
He asks Nathan Sargent whom "Judge Campbell" favors for secretary of 
state, and thanks Gen. Winfield Scott for sending copy of his views 
on crisis.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A202' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to John Comstock</xref>, 9 November 1860, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:137; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A203' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Nathan Sargent</xref>, 9 November 1860, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:137.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1860-11-10'>Saturday, November 10, 1860.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>. </dateline>
         <p> To Truman Smith Lincoln
  reiterates his determination to make no public declaration. "I could say
  nothing which I have not already said, and which is in print, and open for the
  inspection of all." If commerce has slumped, let the "respectable scoundrels"
  who caused it "go to work and repair the mischief of their own making." <bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A206' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Truman Smith</xref>, 10 November 1860,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:138-39.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> He buys
  tonic and "Hair Balsam" at his drug store. <bibl default='NO'>Pratt,
  <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 153.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1860-11-12'>Monday, November 12, 1860.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Reporter writes: "The news from the South produces no perceptible 
effect here, and fails to induce the least change in Mr. Lincoln's 
determination to withhold all intimations as to his policy. . . . The 
hunters for office have not yet assembled here in great force, but a 
brisk business is done with letters."
<bibl default='NO'>N.Y. Tribune, 13 November 1860.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1860-11-13'>Tuesday, November 13, 1860.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Another reporter finds Lincoln studying nullification and Jackson's 
1832 proclamation. He "is not a bit alarmed by the aspect of affairs."
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Illinois State Journal</title>, 24 November 1860.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
"Rest fully assured," Lincoln writes Haycraft, "that the good people 
of the South who will put themselves in the same temper and mood 
towards me which you do, will find no cause to complain of me."
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A208' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Samuel Haycraft</xref>, 13 November 1860, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:139.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1860-11-14'>Wednesday, November 14, 1860.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Politicians begin their assault on Lincoln in person. Their 
activities give rise to newspaper speculation on cabinet selections. 
Lincoln remarks that "if the responsibility rested with them, as it 
does with him, they would be much less speedy with their selections 
and announcements."
<bibl default='NO'>N.Y. Tribune, 15 November 1860.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1860-11-15'>Thursday, November 15, 1860.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
In conversation Lincoln expresses himself on disunion: "My own 
impression is at present (leaving myself room to modify the opinion 
if upon a further investigation I should see fit to do so) that this 
government possesses both the authority and the power to maintain its 
own integrity. . . . The ugly point is the necessity of keeping the 
government together by force, as ours ought to be a government of 
fraternity."
<bibl default='NO'>ISLA&#8212;Nicolay Memo.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1860-11-16'>Friday, November 16, 1860.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Kentucky visitor urges Lincoln to make up his cabinet of 
"conservative" men, including one or more from South. Lincoln tells 
his visitor "that the substance of his plan was that the Republicans 
should now again surrender the Government into the hands of the men 
they had just conquered, and that the cause should take to its bosom 
the enemy who had always fought it."
<bibl default='NO'>ISLA&#8212;Nicolay Memo.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
He writes to Nathanial P. Paschall, editor of "Missouri Republican," 
explaining his reasons for silence. "I am not at liberty to shift my 
ground. . . . If I thought a <uLine>repetition</uLine> would do any 
good I would make it. But my judgment is it would do positive harm. 
The secessionists, <uLine>per se</uLine> believing they had alarmed 
me, would clamor all the louder."
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A209' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Nathaniel P. Paschall</xref>, 16 November 1860, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:139-40.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1860-11-17'>Saturday, November 17, 1860.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Gustave Koerner has interview
  with Lincoln, who says he "has no idea of taking a position towards the South
  which might be considered a sort of apology for his election." <bibl default='NO'>T. J.
  McCormack, ed., <title>Memoirs of Gustave Koerner, 1809-1896</title>, 2 vols.
  (Cedar Rapids, IA: The Torch Press, 1909), 2:105.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> On Ruckel
  mortgage, made September 28, 1857, Lincoln credits $50 payment, third year's
  interest. <bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1860-11-18'>Sunday, November 18, 1860.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
"The exciting news from the South does not appear to disturb Mr. 
Lincoln's equanimity. Without underrating its bearing, he still 
adheres to the opinion that actual secession will not be attempted. 
He avoids discussing this delicate question in the presence of 
visitors, but when referring to it his words are said to indicate a 
firm and settled opinion against the right to secede."
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>N.Y. Herald</title>, 22 November 1860.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1860-11-19'>Monday, November 19, 1860.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln writes three acknowledgments of congratulations, including 
one to his old friend Speed: "I shall be at Chicago Thursday the 
22nd. Inst. and one or two succeeding days. Could you not meet me 
there? Mary thinks of going with me; and therefore I suggest that 
Mrs. S. accompany you."
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A212' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Joshua F. Speed</xref>, 19 November 1860, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:141; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A210' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Henry Asbury</xref>, 19 November 1860, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:140; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A211' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Park Benjamin</xref>, 19 November 1860, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:140-41.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Donn Piatt and R. C. Schenck of Ohio arrive in Springfield, take tea 
with Lincoln at home, and sit far into night discussing situation.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Illinois State Journal</title>, 20 November 1860; Donn Piatt, <title>Memories of Men Who Saved the Union</title> (New York: Bedford, Clarke, 1887), 29-34.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1860-11-20'>Tuesday, November 20, 1860.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Republicans hold "ratification" meeting at which Trumbull delivers 
principal address. Lincoln writes part of his speech. Keynote of his 
contribution is that "each and all of the States will be left in as 
complete control of their own affairs . . . as they have ever been 
under any administration." Wide-Awake parade stops at Lincoln's house 
en route to Wigwam for Trumbull's speech, calls for Lincoln, who 
addresses them briefly in similar vein.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Illinois State Journal</title>, 21 November 1860; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A213' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Passage Written for Lyman Trumbull's Speech at Springfield, Illinois</xref>, 20 November 1860, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:141-42; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A214' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Remarks at Springfield, Illinois</xref>, 20 November 1860, <title corresp='books=Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:142-43.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1860-11-21'>Wednesday, November 21, 1860.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place> and <place key='41.8500, -87.6500' teiForm='name'>Chicago, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Crowd gathers at station to see Lincoln off. Train stops at Lincoln, 
Bloomington, and Lexington, and Lincoln makes brief talks. In Chicago 
his party goes to Tremont House, where Hamlin awaits them. Meeting of 
future President and Vice-President is "cordial in the highest 
degree."
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>N.Y. Herald</title>, 22 November 1860; <title>Chicago Journal</title>, 22 November 1860; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A215' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Remarks at Lincoln, Illinois</xref>, 21 November 1860, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:143; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A216' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Remarks at Bloomington, Illinois</xref>, 21 November 1860, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:143-44; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A217' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Remarks at Lexington, Illinois</xref>, 21 November 1860, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:144.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1860-11-22'>Thursday, November 22, 1860.</date>
            <place key='41.8500, -87.6500' teiForm='name'>Chicago, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln, Hamlin, <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person>, Mrs. Piatt, and others visit Wigwam, 
Post Office, Custom House, U.S. Court, and return to Tremont House.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>N.Y. Herald</title>, 23 November 1860.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1860-11-23'>Friday, November 23, 1860.</date>
            <place key='41.8500, -87.6500' teiForm='name'>Chicago, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Public reception takes up morning. "Until noon, a steady stream of 
visitors poured in at the Lake street entrance of the Tremont House." 
Lincoln, <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person>, and Hamlin shake hands with all who pass. 
After reception Lincoln declines to receive visitors. At 5 he dines 
with Trumbull and Hamlin.
<bibl default='NO'>Chicago Tribune, 24 November 1860; <title>N.Y. Herald</title>, 24 November 1860.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1860-11-24'>Saturday, November 24, 1860.</date>
            <place key='41.8500, -87.6500' teiForm='name'>Chicago, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln gives his autograph to George D. Rumsey, son of Mayor Julian 
S. Rumsey of Chicago.
<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln and Hamlin seclude themselves at Lake View, home of Ebenezer 
Peck, and discuss cabinet business.
<bibl default='NO'>William E. Baringer, <title>A House Dividing: Lincoln as President Elect</title> (Springfield, IL: Abraham Lincoln Association, 1945), 84.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1860-11-25'>Sunday, November 25, 1860.</date> 
            <place key='41.8500, -87.6500' teiForm='name'>Chicago,
  IL</place>. </dateline>
         <p> "Mr. Lincoln attended St. James Church . . . with
  Hon. Isaac N. Arnold, and in the afternoon, by invitation, was present at the
  Mission Sabbath School and made a short address to the children." <bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Chicago Journal</title>, 26 November 1860.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln sits
  for Samuel Alschuler, formerly of Urbana, who photographed Lincoln in 1858. 
  <bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A220' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Henry C. Whitney</xref>, 26 November 1860,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:145.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1860-11-26'>Monday, November 26, 1860.</date>
            <place key='41.8500, -87.6500' teiForm='name'>Chicago, IL</place> and <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Before leaving Tremont House, Lincoln pens note to his old friend 
Henry Whitney, formerly of Urbana, replying to Whitney's note on 
behalf of Alschuler, photographer.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A220' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Henry C. Whitney</xref>, 26 November 1860, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:145.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Mr. and <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> leave Chicago at 9 A.M. and reach Springfield at 
6:30. Lincoln's return "is the delight of the reporters and a number 
of office-seekers, who have been lying in wait for him since [Nov. 
24]. The President and party traveled in separate cars. No ovations 
were received on the way on account of the rainy weather."
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Chicago Journal</title>, 26 November 1860; N.Y. Tribune, 27 November 1860.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1860-11-27'>Tuesday, November 27, 1860.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln spends most of day reading several hundred accumulated letters.
<bibl default='NO'>N.Y. Tribune, 28 November 1860.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
To Hamlin he writes: "I deem it proper to advise you that I also find 
letters here from very strong and unexpected quarters in 
Pennsylvania, urging the appointment of General Cameron to a place in 
the cabinet." He writes autograph for Fred R. Jackson of Stillwater, 
N.Y.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A221' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Hannibal Hamlin</xref>, 27 November 1860, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:145.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1860-11-28'>Wednesday, November 28, 1860.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln answers demand of H. J. Raymond of N.Y. "Times" for policy 
statement: "On the 20th. Inst. Senator Trumbull made a short speech 
which I suppose you have both seen and approved. Has a single 
newspaper, heretofore against us, urged that speech [upon its 
readers] with a purpose to quiet public anxiety? Not one, so far as I 
know."
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A223' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Henry J. Raymond</xref>, 28 November 1860, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:145-46.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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            <date value='1860-11-29'>Thursday, November 29, 1860.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
"Quite a number of country people were in town, and paid their 
respects to the President-elect. Mr. Lincoln, like the rest of 
Anglo-American mankind, feasted on a roast turkey, and having special 
cause to thank his Maker, attended Divine service." He has long 
interview with George Fogg of Republican National Committee.
<bibl default='NO'>N.Y. Tribune, 1 December 1860.</bibl>
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         <dateline>
            <date value='1860-11-30'>Friday, November 30, 1860.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln has many visitors, among them Hugh White of New York, with 
whom he served in Congress, and "several Kentuckians of standing," 
who are favorably impressed with his "conversational powers."
<bibl default='NO'>N.Y. Tribune, 1 December 1860; <title>N.Y. Herald</title>, 6 December 1860.</bibl>
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         <p>
Lincoln writes Alexander H. Stephens requesting copy of speech 
Stephens has made in Georgia legislature. For John H. Littlefield, 
law student at his office, Lincoln writes: "I will pay five dollars 
to whomever will loan that sum to the bearer, Mr. Littlefield."
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A225' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Alexander H. Stephens</xref>, 30 November 1860, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:146; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A224' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Note for John H. Littlefield</xref>, 30 November 1860, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:146.</bibl>
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