To conclude financial transaction begun the previous day, Lincoln releases mortgage that Daniel E. Ruckel had given him August 15, 1851, to secure promissory note of $300. Lincoln writes check to Jacob Ruckel for $200 and files mortgage Jacob Ruckel provides to secure $500 debt. Record; Check of Abraham Lincoln to Jacob Ruckel, 29 September 1857.

To Samuel Briggs, Lincoln writes legal opinion concerning organization of town of Delavan. "The five dollars is a sufficient fee." Abraham Lincoln to Samuel Briggs, 29 September 1857, CW, 2:423.