Annotation
[1] ALS, JH:
[2] Anson G. Henry, who did not get the postmastership which went to G. W. Spottswood.
[3] Lincoln was absent from the legislature January 13 to 19 because of illness of a psychopathic nature, brought on in all probability by what he later would refer to as ``that fatal first of Jany. '41'' (letter to Joshua F. Speed, March 27, 1842; see also other letters to Speed written in 1841-1842). What occurred has been variously reported by Lincoln's contemporaries, but general agreement has been reached among modern scholars to the effect that on this date Lincoln asked