<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1860-05-01'>Tuesday, May 1, 1860.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln writes Trumbull that all expect Douglas to be nominated by 
Charleston Democratic convention. To C. M. Allen of Indiana he 
confesses that nomination of Douglas will put case "in the hardest 
shape for us." Dubois and David Davis will meet Allen in Chicago. "If 
you let Usher &amp; Griswold of Terre-Haute know, I think they will 
co-operate with 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%3A35' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Lyman Trumbull</xref>, 1 May 1860, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:47; <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>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1860-05-02'>Wednesday, May
  2, 1860.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>. </dateline>
         <p> To R. M.
  Corwine of Ohio Lincoln outlines his prospects. "I think the Illinois
  delegation will be unanamous for me at the start; and no other delegation will.
  . . . You know how it is in Ohio. I am certainly not the first choice there;
  and yet I have not heard that any one makes any positive objection to me. It is
  just so everywhere so far as I can perceive." Dubois and Davis will be in
  Chicago to confer with "friends from other States." Lincoln thanks James G.
  Wilson of Chicago for sending book of Fitz-Greene Halleck's poems, praising
  several. <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%3A36' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Richard M. Corwine</xref>, 2 May 1860,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:47-48;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A37' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to James G. Wilson</xref>, 2 May 1860, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:48.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1860-05-08'>Tuesday, May 8, 1860.</date>
            <place key='39.8333, -88.9500' teiForm='name'>Decatur, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln attends state Republican convention. Joseph G. Cannon meets 
him for first time.
<bibl default='NO'>Joseph G. Cannon, "I knew Abraham Lincoln" (address delivered at the Dedication of the Lincoln Marker on the Lincoln Circuit in Danville, IL, 22 October 1922).</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1860-05-09'>Wednesday, May 9, 1860.</date> 
            <place key='39.8333, -88.9500' teiForm='name'>Decatur, IL</place>.
  </dateline>
         <p> Lincoln attends the Illinois Republican State Convention. John
  Hanks displays a Lincoln-for-President "banner" made from "two old time fence
  rails." The audience encourages Lincoln to comment. Lincoln recalls that in
  1830, when he first came to Illinois, he "built a cabin, <ital>split
  rails</ital>, and cultivated a small farm...six or eight miles from Decatur."
  He could not attest that the banner rails were ones he had created, but over
  the years, "he had mauled many and many better ones." <bibl default='NO'>
               <title>New York
  Daily Tribune</title>, 22 May 1860, 7:1; <title>The Press and Tribune</title>
  (Chicago, IL), 10 May 1860, 1:2;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A38' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Remarks
  to Republican State Convention, Decatur, Illinois</xref>, 9 May 1860,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:48-49.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1860-05-10'>Thursday, May 10, 1860.</date>
            <place key='39.8333, -88.9500' teiForm='name'>Decatur, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Convention instructs Illinois delegation for Lincoln for President.
<bibl default='NO'>Chicago Tribune, 11 May 1860.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1860-05-12'>Saturday, May 12, 1860.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield,
  IL</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes to Dr. Edward Wallace, who is in
  Chicago attending the Republican convention. Wallace, of Reading, Pennsylvania,
  seeks Lincoln's views regarding the tariff issue. Lincoln writes, "a
  presidential candidate" needs to assure the convention delegates "that he would
  neither seek to force a tariff-law by Executive influence; nor yet to arrest a
  reasonable one, by a veto, or otherwise." Lincoln adds, "I really have no
  objection to these views being publicly known; but I do wish to thrust no
  letter before the public now, upon any subject." <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%3A40' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Edward Wallace</xref>, 12 May 1860, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:49.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1860-05-14'>Monday, May 14, 1860.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln writes his friend Carl Schurz, chairman of Wisconsin 
delegation at Chicago, note of introduction to Jesse K. Dubois.
<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%3A41' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Carl Schurz</xref>, 14 May 1860, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:50.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1860-05-17'>Thursday, May 17, 1860.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln gives E. L. Baker, editor of "Illinois State Journal," copy 
of "Missouri Democrat" in which he had marked passages referring to 
Seward's position on slavery issue, and on margin of which he writes 
in pencil: "I agree with Seward in his 'Irrepressible Conflict,' but 
I do not endorse his 'Higher Law' doctrine. <uLine>Make no contracts 
that will bind me</uLine>." Baker takes this to Chicago.
<bibl default='NO'>Herndon &amp; Weik, 373-74; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A42' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Endorsement on the Margin of the <title>Missouri Democrat</title>
               </xref>, [17 May 1860], <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:50.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1860-05-18'>Friday, May 18, 1860.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Chicago convention nominates Lincoln on third ballot. News reaches 
Springfield by noon, and at once firing of 100 guns commences. In 
afternoon friends call on Lincoln at home to congratulate him. In 
evening mass meeting assembles at state house. Crowd moves to 
Lincoln's residence. He appears, speaks briefly, and invites in as 
many as can get inside.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Illinois State Journal</title>, 19 May 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%3A43' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Response to a Serenade</xref>, 18 May 1860, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:50-51.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1860-05-19'>Saturday, May
  19, 1860.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Lincoln
  receives formal notice of his nomination. Notification committee arrives in
  Springfield late in afternoon, and calls on Lincoln at 8 P.M. He receives them
  in north parlor, and responds briefly to address of chairman, Ashmun of
  Massachusetts. Committee then moves to south parlor, where members are
  presented to Mrs. Lincoln. <bibl default='NO'>N.Y. Tribune, 25 May 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%3A44' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Reply
  to Committee of the Republican National Convention</xref>, 19 May 1860,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:51.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1860-05-20'>Sunday, May 20, 1860.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln sits for two photographs.
<bibl default='NO'>Frederick H. Meserve, <title>The Photographs of Abraham Lincoln</title> (New York: privately printed, 1911), 53.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1860-05-21'>Monday, May 21, 1860.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln acknowledges congratulations of Joshua R. Giddings, Ohio 
abolitionist: "It is indeed, most grateful to my feelings, that the 
responsible position assigned me, comes without conditions, save only 
such honorable ones as are fairly implied. I am not wanting in the 
purpose, though I may fail in the strength, to maintain my freedom 
from bad influences. Your letter comes to my aid in this point, most 
opportunely."
<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%3A45' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Joshua R. Giddings</xref>, 21 May 1860, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:51-52.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform' type='New' TEIform='div2'> 
  <dateline TEIform='dateline'> <date value='1860-05-22' TEIform='date'>Tuesday,
  May 22, 1860.</date> <place teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline> 
  <p TEIform='p'>Lincoln writes to his longtime friend Joshua Speed, of
  Louisville, Kentucky, in response to Speed's letter congratulating Lincoln on
  winning the Republican Party's nomination for president. Speed referred to
  himself as Lincoln's "warm personal friend, though as you are perhaps aware a
  political opponent." Speed invited Lincoln to Kentucky and intimated, "My wife
  is warmly for you." Lincoln replies, "I would like to see Kentucky generally,
  and you in particular; and yet I suppose it will scarcely be prudent for me to
  leave home much, if any." Lincoln is not surprised that "Mrs. Speed is for
  me&#x2014;with her nature and views, she could not well be otherwise." Lincoln
  invites the Speeds to "visit us here." <bibl>Joshua F. Speed to Abraham
  Lincoln, 19 May 1860, Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington,
  D. C.; Abraham Lincoln to Joshua Speed, 22 May 1860, <title>CW</title>,
  10:53-54.</bibl></p> </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1860-05-23'>Wednesday, May 23, 1860.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln formally accepts nomination in letter to George Ashmun, 
convention president. "Imploring the assistance of Divine Providence, 
and with due regard to the views and feelings of all who were 
represented in the convention . . . I am most happy to co-operate for 
the practical success of the principles declared by the 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%3A46' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to George Ashmun</xref>, 23 May 1860, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:52.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1860-05-24'>Thursday, May 24, 1860.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Thurlow Weed, political boss of New York and William H. Seward's 
"manager," visits Lincoln.
<bibl default='NO'>Register, 25 May 1860.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1860-05-25'>Friday, May 25, 1860.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln deposits $500 in his bank account.
<bibl default='NO'>Marine Bank Ledger.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1860-05-26'>Saturday, May 26, 1860.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln writes letters in reply to congratulations. He is optimistic: 
"So far as I can learn, the nominations start well everywhere; and, 
if they get no back-set, it would seem as if they are going through." 
He writes briefly to Salmon P. Chase, Cassius M. Clay, Schuyler 
Colfax, Caleb B. Smith, Trumbull, and Washburne. He tells S. Wells 
Cone of Kansas that he expects "to be at home constantly for some 
weeks." More to the point, he writes Leonard Swett approving his 
activities in smoothing factional differences. He tells David Davis 
about Weed's visit, and drafts letter for Davis to write, sign, and 
send to Pennsylvania Republicans Davis dealt with at Chicago, as 
Lincoln's platform for campaign.
<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%3A49' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Salmon P. Chase</xref>, 26 May 1860, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:53; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A50' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Cassius M. Clay</xref>, 26 May 1860, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:53-54; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A51' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Schuyler Colfax</xref>, 26 May 1860, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:54; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A54' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Caleb B. Smith</xref>, 26 May 1860, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:55; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A56' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Lyman Trumbull</xref>, 26 May 1860, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:55-56; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A57' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Elihu B. Washburne</xref>, 26 May 1860, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:56; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A52' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to S. Wells Cone</xref>, 26 May 1860, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:54; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A55' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Leonard Swett</xref>, 26 May 1860, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:55; Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1860-05-28'>Monday, May 28, 1860.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
  </dateline>
         <p>Republican presidential nominee Lincoln writes to Elizabethtown,
  Kentucky resident Samuel Haycraft, who seeks to verify Lincoln's biographical
  information. Lincoln writes, "In the main you are right about my history. My
  father was Thomas Lincoln, and Mrs. Sally Johnston, was his second wife. You
  are mistaken about my mother&#8212;her maiden name was Nancy Hanks. I was not
  born at Elizabethtown; but my mother's first child, a daughter, two years older
  than myself, and now long since deceased, was...My father has been dead near
  ten years; but my step-mother...is still living. I am really very glad of your
  letter, and shall be pleased to receive another at any time." <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%3A58' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Samuel Haycraft</xref>, 28 May 1860, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:56-57.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1860-05-30'>Wednesday, May 30, 1860.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield,
  IL</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Problems of patronage are already before Lincoln.
  He writes Leonard Swett of Bloomington his intentions toward New York
  Republican factions headed by Weed and James Putnam. "It can not have failed to
  strike you that these men ask for just, the same
  thing&#8212;<uLine>fairness</uLine>, and fairness only. This, so far as in my
  power, they, and all others, shall have." <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%3A59' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Leonard Swett</xref>, 30 May 1860, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:57.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln 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' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1860-05-31'>Thursday, May 31, 1860.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield,
  IL</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Republican presidential nominee Lincoln writes to
  Charles C. Nott, who is a member of the "Young Mens Central Republican Union,"
  in New York City. Nott had sent "a copy of" Lincoln's Cooper Union speech, to
  which Lincoln makes some corrections. Lincoln instructs, "So far as it is
  intended merely to improve in grammar, and elegance of composition, I am quite
  agreed; but I do not wish the sense changed, or modified, to a hair's breadth."
  Lincoln notes that one of Nott's "proposed substitution[s] would" result in "a
  very considerable blunder." Lincoln closes, "If you conclude to publish a new
  edition, allow me to see the proof-sheets." <bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to
  Charles c. Nott</xref>, 31 May 1860, <title>CW</title>, 4:58-59; Charles C.
  Nott to Abraham Lincoln, 9 February 1860, Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of
  Congress, Washington, D.C.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> He writes again to Schuyler Colfax,
  and to Trumbull, who is arranging with Hannibal Hamlin, nominee for Vice
  President, letters of formal acceptance. <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%3A60' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Schuyler Colfax</xref>, 31 May 1860, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:57-58.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>