Stuart & Lincoln are notified by Samuel H. Treat, attorney for complainant in Foster v. Cassidy, that John Calhoun's deposition will be taken December 22, 1837, in Thomas Moffett's office.Record.

Lincoln writes William A. Minshall of Rushville that Stuart will run for Congress again. Let "our friends in your parts know. . . . Write me all you know and all you think, in regard to our prospects. . . . We have adopted it as part of our policy here, to never speak of Douglass at all. Is'nt that the best mode of treating so small a matter?"Abraham Lincoln to William A. Minshall, 7 December 1837, CW, 1:107.

[Illinois Supreme Court convenes at Vandalia. Court is in session until December 25, 1837.]

[Sangamon Circuit Court meets in special one-day session to take up case of John S. Davis, larceny. Judge Jesse B. Thomas, Jr., presides.Record.]

Lincoln writes and files a commissioner's report in Houghton v. Hart et al. Lincoln represented the complainant, Elijah Houghton, in this chancery case in which Houghton was seeking to obtain a deed.Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

Judge S. H. Treat signs above report.Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

Stuart or Lincoln probably are in Thomas Moffett's office during the deposition of John Calhoun in Foster v. Cassidy. The complainant deposed Calhoun and Stuart & Lincoln repesent the defendant.Record.