Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 2 [Sept. 3, 1848-Aug. 21, 1858].
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Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 2 [Sept. 3, 1848-Aug. 21, 1858].
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Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.
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New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press
1953.
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"Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 2 [Sept. 3, 1848-Aug. 21, 1858]." In the digital collection Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/lincoln2. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 28, 2024.
A. L. Brewer, Esq Springfield, Ills.
Dear Sir March 16, 1855.
Your letter of the 8th. is just received. It has all the while been understood that the estate of Blackledge2Jump to section is solvent, & that the Kelly3Jump to section claim is good. After I sent back to you & got the authentication of record corrected, I commenced a suit in the circuit court; and about this time Blackledge died. The case is not in the county of my residence; so that I am only there at the terms of the circuit court. At the first term after B's death, my partner, who was attending court in that county that term, dismissed the suit and filed the record in the Probate court as a claim against the estate. This we both thought was the best way of doing. Last fall I turned out of my way to come by that county to see after the claim; and was surprized to be told that the claim had not been allowed, or acted on.
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On the 2nd. of April court takes me there again, when I shall give special attention to the matter. Yours &c. A. LINCOLN
Annotation
[1] ALS, IHi. The case referred to was Kelly v. estate of Blackledge in the Logan County Circuit Court.