On 7th Lincoln wrote Thomas Ewing recommending Walter Davis for receiver and Turner R. King for register of Land Office at Springfield. He asks Ewing to transpose those recommendations. Abraham Lincoln to Thomas Ewing, 7 April 1849, CW, 2:40; Abraham Lincoln to Thomas Ewing, 7 April 1849, CW, 2:40-41; Abraham Lincoln to Thomas Ewing, 13 April 1849, CW, 2:42.

Lincoln writes the affidavit of Joseph Nelson, the plaintiff in Nelson v. Busher and Nelson, a replevin case before the Sangamon County Circuit Court. Photocopy.