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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].
Author
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.
Publication
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 June 18, 2025.

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To Orville H. Browning and Nehemiah Bushnell1

Messrs Browning & Bushnell Springfield,
Gentlemen March 28. 1851

Your letter is received. I have made the arrangement to use the Hoyt evidence2 in the other cases.

The new Act of Congress provides that all cases begun here shall

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be tried here, & not go to Chicago at all. All our Patent cases were begun here.

It also fixes the summer term here in July,3 instead of June as heretofore. So no trouble is created in our Patent cases by the new law. In haste Yours as ever A. LINCOLN

Annotation

[1]   ALS, IHi.

[2]   Parker v. Hoyt, a patent case involving a waterwheel, which Lincoln won for the defendant in the U.S. District Court, July 24, 1850.

[3]   The U.S. Circuit Court convened July 7, and on July 10 continued Lincoln's patent cases.

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