Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 1.

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Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 1.
Author
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.
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New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press
1953.
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Friend Thomas: Springfield, April 21 1842-

Yours of the 11th Inst. was received some days since. As to the Rules, it would be useless to send you copy; in asmuch as the Supreme court of the U.S. have adopted a set of Rules, which supercede, the rules adopted by the District court. The Supreme court Rules have not yet reached us. The personal attendance here of

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your friend Dr. Flanders2Open page is not absolutely necessary. When you get hold of the rules, make out his papers according to them, and send them to me, and I will do my part here, for whatever you charge him for doing your part there. One thing bear constantly in mind; that is, that unless I am furnished with money to pay cost as the case progresses, I can not move an inch---and State Bank paper will not do, at that.3Open page The whole cost, exclusive of lawyer's fees, will be, as we think, about $20. in something at least as good as Shawnee. Yours &c. A. LINCOLN

P.S. Tell J. K. Dubois4Open page he must come to the Legislature again; that I am off the track, and that the wheels of government will inevitably stop without the aid of one of us. A. L.

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