Court grants complainant's petition in Patterson et al. v. Casey et al. Stuart & Lincoln appear for complainant; Lincoln writes answer of Cyrus Walker, guardian in case. They file defendant's plea in Heredith v. Matheny. Twelfth juror is chosen in People v. Truett, and presentation of evidence begins.Record; Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

[Champaign Circuit Court opens two-day term at Urbana.]

Lincoln receipts on warrant register in auditor's office for $75, salary of A. Kitchell, state's attorney for Fourth Judicial Circuit for quarter ending September 30, 1843. He probably delivers money to Kitchell at Charleston.

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

[DeWitt Circuit Court commences its fall session at Clinton. Mrs. Lincoln buys $1 worth of sugar and coffee. Bunn Journal.]

[Lincoln's account with John Williams & Co. is charged $1 for pair of slippers, and his drug store account is debited 15¢ for pills. Pratt, Personal Finances, 148, 151.]

"I am here, just now, attending court," Lincoln begins his reply to letter he read in Smith's store yesterday. "If we could have a moderate, carefully adjusted, protective tariff, so far acquiesced in, as to not be a perpetual subject of political strife, squabbles, charges, and uncertainties, it would be better for us." He does not intend this as public statement. Abraham Lincoln to Edward Wallace, 11 October 1859, CW, 3:486-87.

President telegraphs Robert at Cambridge, Mass.: "Your letter makes us a little uneasy about your health. Telegraph us how you are. If you think it would help you make us a visit." Abraham Lincoln to Robert T. Lincoln, 11 October 1864, CW, 8:44.

Lincoln and Sec. Seward call on Sec. Welles at Navy Dept. about New York voters in Navy. Welles, Diary.

At 8 P.M. President and John Hay go to War Dept. to get election returns. During lull Lincoln reads several chapters of Nasby papers, humorous writings of "Petroleum V. Nasby," pen name of David R. Locke. Hay, Letters and Diary.

Stays at telegraph office until after midnight, waiting for returns from Pennsylvania and Ohio. Bates, Telegraph Office, 276.