Lincoln mails to clerk of Circuit Court of Menard County declaration, praecipe, note, and bond for costs in Plummer & Wilson v. Hoey & Hoey. Plaintiff is seeking to collect note for $138.87 given by defendants in Baltimore March 10, 1837.Photocopy.

He files petition for divorce of Solomon Goodman against Nancy Goodman and asks that summons be issued to defendant.Sangamo Journal, 4 February 1842.

Lincoln files petition for divorce of Ann McDaniel against Patrick McDaniel and asks summons returnable to March term of Sangamon Circuit Court.Sangamo Journal, 4 February 1842.

Lincoln writes Speed that Speed's anxiety about his fiancee's health "will forever banish those horid doubts" of his affection for her. He hopes that her improving health will make Speed forget "the sorrows of the past, in the enjoyments of the present. . . . I have been quite clear of hypo since you left,—even better than I was along in the fall."Abraham Lincoln to Joshua F. Speed, 3 February 1842, CW, 1:267-68.

In the evening, Lincoln delivers a eulogy for Benjamin Ferguson before a meeting of the Washington Temperance Society. Lincoln remarks, "In his intercourse with his fellow men, he possessed that rare uprightness of character, which was evidenced by his having no disputes or bickerings of his own, while he was ever the chosen arbiter to settle those of his neighbors. In very truth he was, the noblest work of God—an honest man."Sangamo Journal (Springfield, IL), 11 February 1842, 2:7; Eulogy on Benjamin Ferguson, 8 February 1842, CW, 1:268-69.