First of four meetings to which all candidates for legislature are invited is held at Bartell's on Sugar Creek, five miles southeast of Springfield. Lincoln probably attends and speaks. Sangamo Journal, 23 June 1838.

Lincoln writes and files with the Sangamon County Circuit Court a declaration in the assumpsit suit McNair v. Adams. He asks for $1,000 in damages. Treat and Campbell represent the defendant.Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

In Edward Crow & Co. v. Garrett, Lincoln writes, signs, and files with the court the bill of complaint and bond for costs.Record.

[In Harwood v. Forsythe & Buckner, the Morgan County Circuit Court Clerk files a declaration, praecipe, and bond for costs which Lincoln wrote and mailed to Jacksonville the day before.Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.]