36;
  surveying instruments sold for debt, 36;
  “Honest old Abe,” 37;
  appointed postmaster of New Salem, 37;
  made deputy surveyor, 39, 40;
  candidate for legislature, 1834, 41, 42;
  elected to legislature, 43;
  begins study of law, 44;
  admitted to practice, 44;
  removes to Springfield and forms law partnership with J.T.  Stuart, 44;
  reelected to legislature, 44;
  services in legislature, 44-48;
  manages removal of State capital to Springfield, 45;
  Lincoln-Stone protest, 47;
  vote for, for Speaker of Illinois House, 48;
  his methods in law practice, 49;
  notes for law lecture, 49-51;
  his growing influence, 52;
  guest of William Butler, 53;
  intimacy with Joshua F. Speed, 53;
  engaged to Anne Rutledge, 54;
  her death, 54;
  his grief, 55;
  courtship of Mary Owens, 55-60;
  member of “Long Nine,” 61, 62;
  debate with Douglas and others, 1839, 62, 63;
  meets and becomes engaged to Mary Todd, 63;
  engagement broken, 64;
  his deep melancholy, 64;
  letter to Stuart, 64;
  visit to Kentucky, 64;
  letters to Speed, 64, 65;
  “Lost Townships” letters, 66;
  challenged by Shields, 66;
  prescribes terms of the duel, 67;
  duel prevented, 68;
  letter to Speed, 68;
  marriage to Mary Todd, November 4, 1842, 68, 69;
  children of, 69;
  partnership with Stuart dissolved, 69, 70;
  law partnership with S.T.  Logan, 70;
  declines reelection to legislature, 70;
  letter to Speed, 71;
  letter to Martin Morris, 71-73;
  letter to Speed, 73;
  presidential elector, 1844, 73;
  letters to B.F.  James, 74;
  elected to Congress, 1846, 75;
  service and speeches in Congress, 76-90;
  votes for Wilmot Proviso, 79;
  presidential elector in 1840 and 1844, 80;
  favors General Taylor for President, 80-83;
  letters about Taylor’s nomination, 80-82;
  letters to Herndon, 81-83;
  speeches for Taylor, 83;
  bill to prohibit slavery in District of Columbia, 86;
  letters recommending office-seekers, 87-89;
  letter to W.H.  Herndon, 90, 91;
  letter to Speed, 91, 92;
  letter to Duff Green, 92;
  applies for commissionership of General Land Office, 92;
  defends Butterfield against political attack, 92;
  refuses governorship of Oregon, 93;
  indignation at repeal of Missouri Compromise, 94, 95;
  advocates reelection of Richard Yates to Congress, 96;
  speech at Illinois State Fair, 96;
  debate with Douglas at Peoria, 96-99;
  agreement with Douglas, 99;
  candidate for United States Senate before Illinois legislature, 1855, 99;
  withdraws in favor of Trumbull, 100;
  letter to Robertson, 100, 101;
  speech at Bloomington convention, 1856, 103;
  vote for, for Vice-President, 1856, 104;
  presidential elector, 1856, 105;
  speeches in campaign of 1856, 105;