[Edgar County Circuit Court begins its session in Paris.]

[Journey probably continues next day.]

"The Governor is not here," writes Lincoln to Morris & Brown, Chicago attorneys, "and will not be, it is thought, for about ten days. Unfortunately for my attending to the business you sent, I start for Washington, by way of Kentucky, on next monday." He will see that matter is presented to governor, however. Abraham Lincoln to Buckner S. Morris and John J. Brown, 19 October 1847, CW, 1:405-6.

Having received another letter from Morris & Brown, Lincoln consults Logan. "If the Governor shall arrive before I leave, Logan & I will both attend to the matter," he assures them, "and he will attend to it if he does not come till after I leave; all upon the condition that the Governor shall not have acted upon the matter, before his arrival here. . . . The case is a clear one on our side; but whether the Gov. will view it so is another thing." Abraham Lincoln to Buckner S. Morris and John J. Brown, 21 October 1847, CW, 1:406.

Prior to departing for Washington, D. C., where he will take a seat in Congress, Lincoln writes and signs an agreement between himself and Cornelius Ludlum, of Springfield. Ludlum will occupy Lincoln's home while the family is away. Lincoln stipulates, "for the term of one year, to commence on the first day of November . . . the said Ludlum agrees to pay said Lincoln the sum of ninety dollars in quarter yearly payments, to be especially careful to prevent any destruction by fire, [and] to allow said Lincoln, the use of the North-up-stairs room, during the term, in which to store his furniture."Lease Contract Between Abraham Lincoln and Cornelius Ludlum, 23 October 1847, CW, 1:406-7.

Lincoln family leaves for Kentucky. Abraham Lincoln to Buckner S. Morris and John J. Brown, 19 October 1847, CW, 1:405-6.

[In Petersburg, Menard County Circuit Court grants divorce in Bowen v. Bowen. Lincoln wrote court decree. Photocopy.]

Daily Era of October 28, 1847, lists "A. Lincoln and family" and "Joshua F. Speed" as guests at Scott's Hotel, southwest corner 3rd and Market Sts., W. C. Scott, prop. They must have registered on 27th for their names to appear in paper on 28th.

("Mr. Lincoln, the member of Congress elect from this district, has just set out on his way to the city of Washington," reports Illinois Journal (formerly Sangamo Journal). "His family is with him; they intend to visit their friends and relatives in Kentucky before they take up the line of march for the seat of government.... He will find many men in Congress who possess twice the good looks, and not half the good sense, of our own representative.") Illinois Journal (Springfield), 28 October 1847, 2:2.

[O. H. Browning and family of Quincy, Illinois, made trip to Lexington, Kentucky, in 1850. They required a week to travel from St. Louis. Evidently Lincoln's trip required the same time.]

[The Lincolns traveled from St. Louis by boat probably to Frankfort, Kentucky. From there Lexington and Ohio Railroad, fore-runner of Louisville and Nashville, ran to Lexington. Journey probably continues through November 2, 1847. John W. Starr, Lincoln and the Railroads: A Biographical Study (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1927), 47.