<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1860-04-01'>Sunday, April 1, 1860.</date>
            <place key='41.8500, -87.6500' teiForm='name'>Chicago, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln receives $15 by express from Homer, Ill. He does not know who 
sent it, but suspects "Mr. Patterson to whom I loaned that amount a 
few weeks ago."
<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%3A16' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Endorsement on an Express Company Envelope</xref>, [1 April 1860], <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:35.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1860-04-02'>Monday, April 2, 1860.</date>
            <place key='41.8500, -87.6500' teiForm='name'>Chicago, IL</place> and <place key='42.3500, -87.8333' teiForm='name'>Waukegan, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln is in court, but afterwards delivers speech at Waukegan "at 
the earnest solicitation of citizens of Lake County."
<bibl default='NO'>Chicago Tribune.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1860-04-03'>Tuesday, April
  3, 1860.</date> 
            <place key='41.8500, -87.6500' teiForm='name'>Chicago, IL</place> and <place key='42.0333, -87.6833' teiForm='name'>Evanston, IL</place>.
  </dateline>
         <p> After court Lincoln visits Evanston as guest of his old friend
  Julius White, harbormaster and member of Chicago Board of Trade, informally
  receives at White's home, and is serenaded. <bibl default='NO'>ISLA&#8212;Files; Joseph S.
  Currey, <title>Lincoln's Visit to Evanston in 1860</title> (Evanston, IL: n.p.,
  1914), 5.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1860-04-04'>Wednesday, April 4, 1860.</date>
            <place key='41.8500, -87.6500' teiForm='name'>Chicago, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
            <name type='case' key='L02337'>Johnston v. Jones &amp; Marsh</name> ends. Jury retires at 1 P.M. and five hours later brings in verdict for defendants, Lincoln's clients.
<bibl default='NO'>Chicago Tribune, 5 April 1860.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
He collects $350 "fee in case of <name type='case' key='L02337'>Johnston v. Jones,"</name> and signs receipt.
<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1860-04-05'>Thursday, April 5, 1860.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln returns to Springfield, and deposits $325 in his bank account.
<bibl default='NO'>Marine Bank Ledger.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1860-04-06'>Friday, April 6, 1860.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln attacks his accumulated correspondence, writing six letters. 
He tells R. M. Corwine, Ohio delegate to Chicago convention, his 
opinion of presidential politics in Illinois. Seward would be best 
for northern part, worst for southern half. Chase is in same 
situation. Reverse applies to Bates. About his own chances Lincoln 
feels disqualified to speak. He thanks William Gooding of Lockport, 
Ill. for his letter, and tells William Hobbs and William Hanna of 
Bloomington that he prefers a vacation from speech-making. If they 
insist, he will speak April 10, 1860. He writes family history to 
Richard V. B. Lincoln of Pennsylvania. He relates circumstances of 
$200 fee for New York speech to Cornelius McNeill of Middleport 
[Watseka], Ill., Republican editor who is worried about press gossip 
that Lincoln "charged" for making speech. He tells John Pickering, 
Edwards County Republican, where copies of his New York speech can be 
obtained.
<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%3A17' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Richard M. Corwine</xref>, 6 April 1860, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:36; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A18' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to William Gooding</xref>, 6 April 1860, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:36; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A19' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to William C. Hobbs and William H. Hanna</xref>, 6 April 1860, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:37; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A20' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Richard V. B. Lincoln</xref>, 6 April 1860, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:37; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A21' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Cornelius F. McNeill</xref>, 6 April 1860, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:38; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A22' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to John Pickering</xref>, 6 April 1860, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:38-39.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1860-04-07'>Saturday, April 7, 1860.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Elated by Republican victory in recent city election, Lincoln writes 
Trumbull optimistic letter. He declines invitation of John M. Carson 
to lecture before Harrison Literary Institute of Chicago. "What time 
I can spare from my own business this season I shall be compelled to 
give to politics." He tells F. C. Herbruger that he cannot lecture at 
Harrison Literary Institute of Philadelphia. "I am not a professional 
lecturer." He writes Harvey G. Eastman of Poughkeepsie, N.Y. that he 
is unable to send photograph, but Eastman can "easily get one at New 
York. While I was there I was taken to one of the places where they 
get up such things."
<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%3A26' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Lyman Trumbull</xref>, 7 April 1860, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:40-41; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A23' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to John M. Carson</xref>, 7 April 1860, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:39; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A25' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to F. C. Herbruger</xref>, 7 April 1860, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:40; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A24' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Harvey G. Eastman</xref>, 7 April 1860, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:39-40.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1860-04-09'>Monday, April 9, 1860.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
[McLean Circuit Court commences second week of spring session.]
</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1860-04-10'>Tuesday, April 10, 1860.</date>
            <place key='40.4833, -88.9833' teiForm='name'>Bloomington, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln speaks in Phoenix Hall. "Mr. Lincoln is probably the fairest 
and most honest political speaker in the country," Pantagraph 
comments (April 11, 1860). "While he convinces the understanding by 
arriving at legitimate and unavoidable sequences, he wins the hearts 
of his hearers by the utmost fairness and good humor."
<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%3A27' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Speech at Bloomington, Illinois</xref>, 10 April 1860, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:41-43; 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), 108-9.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1860-04-13'>Friday, April 13, 1860.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln reaches home at night.
<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%3A28' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to James F. Babcock</xref>, 14 April 1860, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:43-44.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1860-04-14'>Saturday, April 14, 1860.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield,
  IL</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes to Delahay again. "I see by the
  despaches that . . . Kansas has appointed Delegates and instructed them for
  Seward. Dont stir them up to anger, but come along to the convention, &amp; I
  will do as I said about expenses." He writes Solomon Sturges, Chicago banker,
  that he has not yet determined whether to attend convention, and cannot say
  whether he can accept his hospitality. Lincoln discusses his presidential
  chances in letter to James F. Babcock of New Haven, Conn., and lists 11
  "confidential friends" working to nominate him. He writes letter of
  introduction for Dr. Theodore Canisius. <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%3A29' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Mark W. Delahay</xref>, 14 April 1860,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:44;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A30' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Solomon Sturges</xref>, 14 April 1860,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:44;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A28' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to James F. Babcock</xref>, 14 April 1860,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:43-44;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A31' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Whom It May Concern</xref>, 14 April 1860,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:44-45.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1860-04-16'>Monday, April 16, 1860.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln deposits $100 in Marine &amp; Fire Insurance Co.
<bibl default='NO'>Marine Bank Ledger.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1860-04-21'>Saturday, April 21, 1860.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
To Hawkins Taylor, supporter who expects to attend Chicago 
convention, Lincoln writes: "I am glad there is a prospect of your 
party passing this way to Chicago. Wishing to make your visit here as 
pleasant as we can, we wish you to notify us as soon as possible, 
whether you come this way, how many, and when you will arrive."
<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%3A32' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Hawkins Taylor</xref>, 21 April 1860, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:45.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1860-04-22'>Sunday, April 22, 1860.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln makes $150 loan, at 10 per cent interest, to J. K. and Thomas 
Lewis of Springfield.
<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%3A304' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Receipt for Notes Left with Robert Irwin for Collection</xref>, [9? February 1861], <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:188-89.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1860-04-26'>Thursday, April 26, 1860.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
To "large and intelligent audience" at Cook's Hall, Lincoln repeats 
his lecture on "Discoveries and Inventions."
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Illinois State Journal</title>, 28 April 1860.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1860-04-27'>Friday, April 27, 1860.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln annotates defendants' answer in <name type='case'>Roberts v. 
Stuart &amp; Edwards</name>, Sangamon Circuit Court case.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1860-04-29'>Sunday, April 29, 1860.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln writes Trumbull about presidential possibilities. "The taste 
<uLine>is</uLine> in my mouth a little; and this, no doubt, 
disqualifies me, to some extent, to form correct opinions." 
Nevertheless, neither Seward nor Bates can carry Illinois if Douglas 
is Democratic candidate. McLean would be stronger than either if it 
were not for his age. But in Illinois the problem will be to win 
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=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A33' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Lyman Trumbull</xref>, 29 April 1860, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:45-46.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1860-04-30'>Monday, April 30, 1860.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln receives letter from C. M. Allen of Indiana delegation to 
Chicago convention.
<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%3A34' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Cyrus M. Allen</xref>, 1 May 1860, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:46-47.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
He writes $10 check to "Isaac Sisson."
<bibl default='NO'>DLC&#8212;Original.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>