95 "love and tenderness": Randall, Mary Lincoln, p. 81.

95 "expressed the least": Charles B. Strozier, Lincoln's Quest for Union (New York: Basic Books, 1982), p. 78.

96 Todd had purchased: The case was Todd v. Ware (1844). The very extensive file on this case in the Lincoln Legal Papers shows what careful attention Lincoln paid to the minute details of his father-in-law's case.

96 in her hand: Baker, Mary Todd Lincoln, p. 103.

96 home of their own: On Lincoln's house, see Wayne C. Temple's authoritative By Square and Compa.s.ses: The Building of Lincoln's Home and Its Saga (Bloomington, Ill.: Ashlar Press, 1984). Also valuable are several reports prepared for the National Park Service: Floyd Mansberger, "Archaeological Investigations at the Lincoln Home National Historic Site, Springfield, Illinois" (1987); Vergil E. n.o.ble, "Further Archaeological Investigations at Lincoln National Historic Site, Springfield, Illinois" (1988); and Katherine B. Menz, "Furnishings Plan ...: The Lincoln Home" (1983). I have profited enormously from a private conducted tour of the Lincoln Home National Historic Site that Mr. Norman D. h.e.l.lmers, the superintendent, gave me and have learned much from the careful drawings of the house and outbuildings that he kindly provided.

96 "calling, is diligence": CW, 10:19.

97 fees of $10: Harry E. Pratt, "Lincoln and Bankruptcy Laws," Illinois Bar Journal 31 (Jan. 1943): 201206. The staff of the Lincoln Legal Papers has recently discovered complete transcripts of twelve bankruptcy cases in which Logan and Lincoln appeared. These will make possible a much fuller treatment of Lincoln's practice in bankruptcy proceedings. Lincoln Legal Briefs (OctoberDecember 1994), No. 32.

97 seventeen cases: Day by Day, 1:195. For pleadings in these cases, see Rufus Rockwell Wilson, ed., Uncollected Works of Abraham Lincoln (Elmira, N.Y.: Primavera Press, 1948), 2:252254, 211.

97 Tinsley Building: Paul M. Angle, "Where Lincoln Practiced Law," Lincoln Centennial a.s.sociation Papers, 1927 (Springfield, Ill.: Lincoln Centennial a.s.sociation, 1927), pp. 3031.

97 "in the wrong": WHH, "Lincoln as Lawyer Politician and Statesman," undated monograph, [1887], HWC

98 "will of Juries": "Stephen T. Logan Talks About Lincoln," Lincoln Centennial a.s.sociation Bulletin 12 (Sept. 1, 1928): 3.

98 "fine-tooth combs": John J. Duff, "This Was a Lawyer," JISHS 52 (Spring 1959): 158.

98 "make a speech": CW, 10:19.

98 "want to reach": Herndon's Lincoln, 2:325.

98 a courtroom litigator: For thoughtful appraisals of Lincoln as a lawyer, see Charles W. Moores, "Abraham Lincoln: Lawyer," Indiana Historical Society Publications 7 (1922): 483535; Benjamin P. Thomas, "Abe Lincoln, Country Lawyer," Atlantic Monthly 193 (Feb. 1954): 5761; Cullom Davis, Lincoln the Lawyer (Springfield, Ill.: Lincoln Legal Papers, 1990); and Cullom Davis, "Abraham Lincoln, Esq.: The Symbiosis of Law and Politics," unpublished paper (Springfield, Ill., 1992).

98 "ambition in the law": "Stephen T. Logan Talks About Lincoln," p. 3.

99 "who heard him": Wilson, Uncollected Works, 2:256258; John P. Frank, Lincoln as a Lawyer (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1961), p. 13.

99 "it as anybody": Herndon's opinions are in his lecture "a.n.a.lysis of the Character of Abraham Lincoln," Abraham Lincoln Quarterly 1 (Dec. 1941): 431, and in his monograph, "Lincoln as Lawyer Politician and Statesman," HWC; Logan's are in "Stephen T. Logan Talks About Lincoln," p. 5.'

100 "for this age": Maus v. Worthing, 4 Ill. 26 (1841). See the able summary in John Long, The Law of Illinois, vol. 1, Lincoln's Cases Before the Illinois Supreme Court from His Entry into the Practice of Law Until His Entry into Congress (Shiloh, Ill.: Illinois Co., 1993), pp. 310.

100 "know any thing": WHH, "Lincoln as Lawyer Politician and Statesman," HWC.

100 three hundred cases: All figures concerning the extent of Lincoln's law practice have to be provisional, pending the completion of the work of the indefatigable researchers connected with the Lincoln Legal Papers. Dan W. Bannister's thorough and informed Lincoln and the Illinois Supreme Court (Springfield, privately printed, 1995), appeared too late for me to consult it in preparing my account of Lincoln's appellate practice.

100 "and in friendship": "Stephen T. Logan Talks About Lincoln," p. 5.

100 until March 1845: Angle, "Where Lincoln Practiced Law," pp. 2930.

100 a new partner: The following paragraphs are drawn from Donald, Lincoln's Herndon, pp. 1821.

101 this new partner: Ibid., chap. 4.