[Some time before he leaves Kentucky, Mrs. Lucy G. Speed presents Lincoln with Oxford Bible. On October 3, 1861, Lincoln sent Mrs. Speed his photograph with inscription: "For Mrs. Lucy G. Speed, from whose pious hand I accepted the present of an Oxford Bible twenty years ago."Photocopy.]

Lincoln and Speed leave Louisville at noon on steamboat Lebanon for St. Louis.Abraham Lincoln to Mary Speed, 27 September 1841, CW, 1:259-61.

"Nothing of interest happened during the passage," wrote Lincoln, "except the vexatious delays occasioned by the sand bars be thought interesting." He did, however, find interest in a dozen Negroes chained together "like so many fish upon a trot-line." On August 24, 1855 he wrote Joshua F. Speed: "That sight was a continual torment to me; and I see something like it every time I touch the Ohio."Abraham Lincoln to Mary Speed, 27 September 1841, CW, 1:259-61; Abraham Lincoln to Joshua F. Speed, 24 August 1855, CW, 2:320-23.

[McLean County Circuit Court opened yesterday, and remains in session all week.]****Should there be 2 September 8th days?

[Stage probably arrives late in afternoon.]

In letter to Mary Speed September 27, 1841, Lincoln says: "When we reached Springfield, I staid but one day when I started on this tedious circuit where I now am." Abraham Lincoln to Mary Speed, 27 September 1841, CW, 1:259-61.

Journey from Springfield to Tremont requires day. Court opened yesterday for six-day term. [In Field v. Averill & Lowell, court awards plaintiff $364.50 and costs by default when Lincoln does not appear to defend.Record.]

"Do you remember," he writes Mary Speed September 27, 1841, "my going to the city while I was in Kentucky, to have a tooth extracted, and making a failure of it? Well, that same old tooth got to paining me so much, that about a week since I had it torn out, bringing with it a bit of the jaw-bone; . . . my mouth is now so sore that I can neither talk, nor eat."Abraham Lincoln to Mary Speed, 27 September 1841, CW, 1:259-61.

In Thorp v. Bole and Hinman, defendant enters motion to quash sheriff's return. It is sustained by court and case continued. Thorp v. Bole et al. is continued. In both cases Logan & Lincoln represent plaintiff and Jones and James defendants.Record.

Lincoln writes answer of Gideon Hawley in Mather, Lamb & Co. v. Hawley et al.Photocopy.