The sheriff serves Lincoln with a summons to appear at the September term of the Sangamon County Circuit Court in Henry for use of McCandless and Emmerson v. Alley and Lincoln.William H. Townsend, Lincoln the Litigant (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1925), 55-56.

Dr. Garret Elkin, sheriff, serves writ of scire facias on Lincoln to appear in the Sangamon County Circuit Court at the next term in Van Bergen v. Lincoln et al., and show cause why Lincoln should not be made a party to a judgment for $204.82 and $18.42 in damages awarded April 29, 1834, against co-defendant William G. Green.Photocopy.

["I Charles R. Matheny Clerk of the County Commissioners Court of said County do hereby certify that Abraham Lincoln is duly elected Representative from Sangamon County at the General Election held on Monday the 4th day of August A.D. 1834 as appears from the Returns filed in this office. Given under my hand and seal of office at Springfield this 20th day of August A.D. 1834 C. R. Matheny Clerk" Photocopy.]

Lincoln writes a note acknowledging receipt of the $20 fee that William Hickman paid to Stuart & Lincoln for representing him in the case of Hickman v. Braucher. Hickman sought to recover a debt that defendant Isaac R. Braucher owed to the estate of George Churchill. Lincoln signs the note "Stuart & Lincoln." Receipt (copy), 20 August 1838, Hickman v. Braucher, copy files, IHi, Springfield, IL.

Lincoln buys merchandise, 87¢.Irwin Ledger.

Lincoln buys 1? yards black silk at Irwin's store ($2.44) and pays $2.50 to have it "coloured" in Philadelphia. Irwin Ledger and Journal.

For Mrs. Bullock, Lincoln deeds lots purchased at Saturday's sale to four different persons, taking notes from all except Elijah Iles, who paid in cash. He pays costs of sale, $38.10, and gives Matheny's heirs $50 for quit-claim deed, removing cloud from title. Abraham Lincoln to Mrs. Maria L. Bullock, 31 August 1855, CW, 2:323-25; Record.

Lincoln deposits $200 in his bank account. Marine Bank Ledger.

In order to enter Ottawa on debate day, Lincoln spends night in Morris, arriving during evening. Register, 24 August 1858.

[Mrs. Lincoln buys and charges ($1) pound of tea. Pratt, Personal Finances, 149.]

Lincoln and Ozias M. Hatch are in Hannibal on railroad business. Quincy Herald, 22 August 1859, 2:4.

[Another pair of heavy drawers is charged to Lincoln's account at John Williams & Co. Mrs. Lincoln exchanges napkins at Smith's, and buys pair of gloves. Pratt, Personal Finances, 149, 159.]

Lincoln again sits, in Representatives Hall, for J. Henry Brown. Rufus R. Wilson, Lincoln in Portraiture (New York: Press of the Pioneer, 1935), 109-10; InFtwL—Brown Journal, Photocopy.

M. Romero confers with Lincoln concerning proposed intervention of European powers in Mexican affairs. Ernest G. Hildner, Jr., "The Mexican Envoy Visits Lincoln," Abraham Lincoln Quarterly 6 (September 1950):188.

President Lincoln writes to Secretary of State William H. Seward regarding a job for journalist Zebina Eastman, of Chicago, Illinois. Lincoln writes, "If a position, with even moderate pay, could be found for him in England, he is just the man to reach the sympathies of the English people, to the extent that he can come in contact with them. He is more than a common man, in his sphere." Eastman to Lincoln, 10 December 1861, Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC; Abraham Lincoln to William H. Seward, 20 August 1861, CW, 4:494.

Sen. Harris (N.Y.) reviews with President list of appointments proposed to Sec. Chase. Harris to Lincoln, 21 August 1862, Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

Sec. Welles at White House for advice on personnel. Welles, Diary.

Former Lt. Gov. Koerner (Ill.), new minister to Spain, interviews President preparatory to assuming duties. T. J. McCormack, ed., Memoirs of Gustave Koerner, 1809-1896, 2 vols. (Cedar Rapids, IA: The Torch Press, 1909), 2:229.

President discusses colonizing Negroes on Chiriqui land tract with M. T. Goswell of Baltimore, agent for Chiriqui Real Estate Company. Goswell to Lincoln, 16 August 1862, Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

President receives from Gen. Heintzelman notice of death of Gov. Gurley (Arizona Terr.). Journal, Samuel P. Heintzelman Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

Visits telegraph office in afternoon. Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton, 20 August 1863, CW, 6:399-400.

Goes down river on invitation of Gen. Barnard to see new fort on Rosier's Bluff about three and one-half miles above Fort Washington, Va. Sec. Stanton , Gens. Wadsworth, John H. Martindale, Meigs, and Barnard in party. Lincoln arrives home after dark. Journal, Samuel P. Heintzelman Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

President interviews Col. Joseph N. G. Whistler, who wants his son to go to West Point. Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton, 20 August 1864, CW, 7:509.

President Lincoln telegraphs Brigadier General John F. Miller and "[s]uspend[s] . . . [the] death sentence" of fifteen-year-old Private Patrick Jones, of the 12th Tennessee Cavalry. Tennessee's Military Governor Andrew Johnson telegraphed Lincoln and recommended a commutation to a life sentence. Johnson notes that at the time that Jones committed the murder, he "was drunk." Johnson argues, "[T]he moral influence would be much greater if we could hang some of the larger fish . . . [T]here is no trouble in convicting & hanging the little helpless minnows which makes & leaves no impression upon the public mind." Andrew Johnson to Abraham Lincoln, 19 August 1864, Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC; Abraham Lincoln to John F. Miller, 20 August 1864, CW, 7:509.

Receives 151st Ohio Regiment, en route home after completing 100 days of service. Washington Chronicle, 21 August 1864.