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.
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