Lincoln writes chancery bill to foreclose in Webster & Hickox v. Goodman & McAtee. Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

He buys $1.25 pocket knife. Irwin Journal.

Lincoln writes to Andrew McCallen: "I have news from Ottawa, that we win our Galatin & Saline county case. As the dutch Justice said, when he married folks 'Now, vere ish my hundred tollars?' " He refers to People ex rel. Stephenson v. Marshall. Abraham Lincoln to Andrew McCallen, 4 July 1851, CW, 2:106.

[Federal Courts are both in session at Springfield, Judge Drummond having arrived. Illinois Journal, 9 July 1851.]

"U.S. Circuit Court—Nearly one hundred causes were continued on Thursday. This has disposed of the principal business on the docket. All of the important patent cases were continued." Register, 12 July 1851.

Lincoln is engaged in these patent cases, similar to Hoyt case tried in Chicago in July 1850.

After visit to telegraph office, Lincoln writes to Martin about telegram pertaining to Sangamon & Alton cases which Martin claims was sent from Springfield office. "The operator . . . declares that no such despach ever went from this office—at least, never in . . . February or March last. He then got up a correspondence with the operator at Alton, who . . . says . . . no such despach was ever, received there." Abraham Lincoln to William Martin, 19 July 1851, CW, 2:106.