mention this condition because, I learned this morning from the Secretary
of State, that he is forwarding to the Governor, at Palestine, all papers
he receives in the case, as fast as he receives them. Among the papers
forwarded will be your letter to the Governor or Secretary of, I believe,
the same date and about the same contents of your last letter to me; so
that the Governor will, at all events have your points and authorities.
The case is a clear one on our side; but whether the Governor will view
it so is another thing.

Yours as ever,
A. LINCOLN.




TO WILLIAM H. HERNDON

WASHINGTON, December 5, 1847.

DEAR WILLIAM:--You may remember that about a year ago a man by the name
of Wilson (James Wilson, I think) paid us twenty dollars as an advance
fee to attend to a case in the Supreme Court for him, against a Mr.
Campbell, the record of which case was in the hands of Mr. Dixon of St.
Louis, who never furnished it to us. When I was at Bloomington last fall
I met a friend of Wilson, who mentioned the subject to me, and induced me
to write to Wilson, telling him I would leave the ten dollars with you
which had been left with me to pay for making abstracts in the case, so
that the case may go on this winter; but I came away, and forgot to do
it. What I want now is to send you the money, to be used accordingly, if
any one comes on to start the case, or to be retained by you if no one