{"links":{"self":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog.json?f%5Bcreators%5D%5B%5D=Marshall+Family%2C+John+Marshall%2C+Mary+Willis+Ambler+Marshall%2C+James+Monroe%2C+Joseph+Story.","last":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog.json?f%5Bcreators%5D%5B%5D=Marshall+Family%2C+John+Marshall%2C+Mary+Willis+Ambler+Marshall%2C+James+Monroe%2C+Joseph+Story.\u0026page=1"},"meta":{"pages":{"current_page":1,"next_page":null,"prev_page":null,"total_pages":1,"limit_value":10,"offset_value":0,"total_count":1,"first_page?":true,"last_page?":true}},"data":[{"id":"viw_viw00076","type":"collection","attributes":{"title":"John Marshall Papers, \n \n 1771-1959.","creator":{"id":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/viw_viw00076#creator","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":"Marshall Family, John Marshall, Mary Willis Ambler Marshall, James Monroe, Joseph Story.","label":"Creator"}},"abstract_or_scope":{"id":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/viw_viw00076#abstract_or_scope","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":"Original letters and copies of letters from other repositories, chiefly 1788-1835, of John Marshall's correspondence with his wife, Mary Willis (Ambler) Marshall, and other family members.","label":"Abstract Or Scope"}},"breadcrumbs":{"id":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/viw_viw00076#breadcrumbs","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":{"id":"viw_viw00076","ead_ssi":"viw_viw00076","_root_":"viw_viw00076","_nest_parent_":"viw_viw00076","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/wm/viw00076.xml","title_ssm":["John Marshall Papers, \n \n 1771-1959."],"title_tesim":["John Marshall Papers, \n \n 1771-1959."],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["Mss. 39.1 M34"],"text":["Mss. 39.1 M34","John Marshall Papers, \n \n 1771-1959.","Marshall, John,\n 1755-1835--Portraits, caricatures, etc,","Lawyers--United\n States--Correspondence.","Statesmen-- United\n States--Correspondence.","Judges--United\n States--Correspondence.","Marriage--United\n States--History--18th century.","Marriage--United\n States--History--19th century.","434 items.","Collection is open to all researchers.","Some manuscript volumes located at the end of the\n collection are also available in microform in the\n Manuscripts and Rare Books Department, Swem Library,\n College of William and Mary. [Reels M-104, M-105(a-c), and\n M-106]","Organization This collection is organized into 4 series. Series 1\n contains correspondence and papers of John Marshall, family\n members and other individuals; Series 2 contains printed\n material, poems and charts; Series 3 contains prints,\n engravings, and artifacts; and Series 4 contains manuscript\n volumes.","This collection is organized into 4 series. Series 1\n contains correspondence and papers of John Marshall, family\n members and other individuals; Series 2 contains printed\n material, poems and charts; Series 3 contains prints,\n engravings, and artifacts; and Series 4 contains manuscript\n volumes.","Arrangement This collection is primarily arranged chronologically by\n date.","This collection is primarily arranged chronologically by\n date.","Johnson, Herbert A., Charles T.\n Cullen, Nancy G. Harris, Charles F. Hobson, and others\n eds. The Papers of John\n Marshall. 10 vols. to date. \n Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, \n 1974- . Call\n Number: E302 .M365 v.1 - v.10 \n ","Mason, Frances Norton. My Dearest Polly; Letters of Chief\n Justice John Marshall to His Wife, With Their Background,\n Political and Domestic, 1779-1831. Richmond: Garrett \u0026 Massie, \n 1961. Call Number:\n E302.6 .M4 M33 \n ","Oliver, Andrew The Portraits of John\n Marshall. Charlottesville: Institute of Early American\n History and Culture, University Press of Virginia, \n 1977. Call Number:\n E302.6 .M4 O44 \n ","Rhodes, Irwin S. The Papers of John Marshall, A\n Descriptive Calendar. 2 vols. \n Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, \n [1969]. Call\n Number: KF213 .M3 R5 V.1 - V.2 \n ","John Marshall (1755-1835) was born near Germantown, Prince\n William (currently Fauquier) County, Virginia on 24 September\n 1755 to parents Thomas Marshall and Mary Randolph Keith. From\n 1775-1781, Marshall served in the Continental Army and fought\n in the Revolutionary War. During the spring and summer of\n 1780, Marshall attended classes at the College of William and\n Mary and received his license to practice law. After the war,\n he moved to Richmond, Virginia and began his practice.\n Marshall married Mary Willis Ambler in 1783. The couple had\n ten children, six of whom survived to adulthood. He was\n elected as a delegate to the Virginia House of Delegates in\n 1780 and 1782-1788. Later, he was appointed by President John\n Adams to a special commission to France from 1797-1798. The\n commission, which brought about the famous XYZ affair, failed\n to settle existing differences between France and the U.S.\n From 1799-1800, Marshall served as a Federalist representative\n in the 6th United States Congress. He did not serve out his\n term however, as he was appointed by Adams to serve as U.S.\n Secretary of State from 1800-1801. Later, Marshall received\n yet another appointment from Adams this time to the bench as\n the fourth chief justice of the Supreme Court. He was\n confirmed by the Senate on 27 January 1801 and served until\n his death on 6 July 1835. In addition to hearing 1,215 cases\n and authoring 514 opinions, Marshall also wrote, \n The Life of George Washington ,\n a book in 5 volumes. Marshall was buried in New Burying\n Ground, Richmond, Virginia.","Original is located in the Draper\n Collection, \n State Historical Society of\n Wisconsin, Madison,\n Wisconsin.","Original is located in the Monroe Papers,\n Library of Congress,\n Washington, D.C.","Original is located in the \n James Monroe Memorial\n Library, Fredericksburg,\n Virginia.","Original is located in the \n New York Public Library, New\n York City, New York.","Photostat, \n Monroe Papers, Library of\n Congress, Washingon D.C.","Location of original is unknown.","Photostat, \n Monroe Papers, Library of\n Congress, Washington D.C. Location of original is unknown.","Original is located in the \n Henry E. Huntington Library,\n San Marino, California.","Original is located in the Collection of\n the Association for the Preservation of\n Virginia Antiquities, on deposit at the \n Virginia Historical Society,\n Richmond, Virginia.","Original is located in the Page Walker\n Manuscripts, \n University of Virginia\n Library, Charlottesville,\n Virginia.","Original is located in the Nicholas\n Papers, \n University of Virginia\n Library, Charlottesville,\n Virginia.","Original is located in the Page Walker\n Manuscripts, \n University of Virginia\n Library, Charlottesville,\n Virginia.","Original is located in the Collection of\n the Association for the Preservation of\n Virginia Antiquities, on deposit at the \n Virginia Historical Society,\n Richmond, Virginia.","Original is located in the \n Free Library of\n Philadelphia, Philadelphia,\n Pennsylvania.","Original is located in the RG 59, \n National Archives,\n Washington, D.C.","Original is located in the Collection of\n the Association for the Preservation of\n Virginia Antiquities, on deposit at the \n Virginia Historical Society,\n Richmond, Virginia.","Original is located in the Iredell\n Manuscripts, \n Duke University Library,\n Durham, North Carolina.","Original is located in the \n Free Library of\n Philadelphia, Philadelphia,\n Pennsylvania.","Original is located in the RG 59, \n National Archives,\n Washington, D.C.","Original is located in the RG 59, \n National Archives,\n Washington, D.C.","Original is located in the RG 59, \n National Archives,\n Washington, D.C.","Original is located in the RG 59, \n National Archives,\n Washington, D.C.","Original is located in the RG 59, \n National Archives,\n Washington, D.C.","Original is privately owned.","Original is located in the Collection of\n the Association for the Preservation of\n Virginia Antiquities, on deposit at \n Virginia Historical Society,\n Richmond, Virginia.","Original in the Washington Papers, \n Library of Congress,\n Washington, D.C.","Original is privately owned.","Original in the Washington Papers, \n Library of Congress,\n Washington, D.C.","Original is located in the Washington\n Papers, \n Library of Congress,\n Washington, D.C.","Original is located in the Washington\n Papers, \n Library of Congress,\n Washington, D.C.","Original is located in the \n John Marshall House,\n Richmond, Virginia.","Original is located in \n Washington University, St.\n Louis, Missouri.","Location of original is unknown.","Original is located in the Collection\n of the Association for the Preservation\n of Virginia Antiquities, on deposit at\n the \n Virginia Historical\n Society, Richmond,\n Virginia.","Original is located in the Pinckney\n Family Papers, \n Library of Congress,\n Washington, D.C.","Original is located in the Hampton L.\n Carson Collection, \n Free Library of\n Philadelphia, Philadelphia,\n Pennsylvania.","Original is located in the William M.\n Elkins Collection, \n Free Library of\n Philadelphia, Philadelphia,\n Pennsylvania.","Original is located in the Pinkney\n Family Papers, \n Library of Congress,\n Washington D.C.","Original is located in the \n Free Library of\n Philadelphia, Philadelphia,\n Pennsylvania.","Original is located in the \n Free Library of\n Philadelphia, Philadelphia,\n Pennsylvania.","Original is located in the Jefferson\n Papers, \n Library of Congress,\n Washington D.C.","Printed in Dann, \n Mason\n Memoirs .","Original is located in the \n John Marshall House,\n Virginia State Library, Richmond,\n Virginia.","Original is located in the \n Washington University, St.\n Louis, Missouri.","Original is located in the \n University of Virginia,\n Charlottesville, Virginia.","Original is privately owned.","Original is located in the \n University of Virginia,\n Charlottesville, Virginia.","Original is located in the Pinckney\n Papers, \n Library of Congress,\n Washington, D.C.","Original is located in the \n Free Library of\n Philadelphia, Philadelphia,\n Pennsylvania.","Original is located in the Pinckney\n Papers, \n Library of Congress,\n Washington, D.C.","Original is located in the \n Massachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.","Original is located in the \n Massachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.","Original is located in the Monroe Papers,\n Library of Congress,\n Washington, D.C.","Location of original is unknown.","Original is located in the \n University of Virginia,\n Charlottesville, Virginia.","Location of original is unknown.","Original is located in the Hampton L.\n Carson Collection, \n Free Library of\n Philadelphia, Philadelphia,\n Pennsylvania.","Original is located in the RG 59, \n National Archives,\n Washington, D.C.","Original is located in the Hampton L.\n Carson Collection, \n Free Library of\n Philadelphia, Philadelphia,\n Pennsylvania.","Original is located in the \n Massachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.","Original is located in the \n Massachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.","Original is located in the \n Library of Congress,\n Washington, D.C.","Original is located in the \n Massachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.","Original is located in the \n Library of Congress,\n Washington, D.C.","Original is located in the \n John Marshall House,\n Richmond, Virginia.","Original is located in the \n Massachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.","Original is located in the \n Massachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.","Original is located in the \n Massachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.","Original is located in the \n Library of Congress,\n Washington, D.C.","Original is located in the Hampton L.\n Carson Collection, \n Free Library of\n Philadelphia, Philadelphia,\n Pennsylvania.","Original is located in the \n Massachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.","Original is located in the \n Massachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.","Original is located in the \n Library of Congress,\n Washington, D.C.","Original is located in the University of\n Virginia on deposit at \n John Marshall House,\n Richmond, Virginia.","Original is located in the Virginia State\n Library, on deposit \n John Marshall House,\n Richmond, Virginia.","Original is located in the Hampton L.\n Carson Collection, \n Free Library of\n Philadelphia, Philadelphia,\n Pennsylvania.","Original is located in the \n Library of Congress,\n Washington, D.C.","Original is located in \n Washington University, St.\n Louis, Missouri.","Original is located in the \n Library of Congress,\n Washington, D.C.","Original is located in the \n Library of Congress,\n Washington, D.C.","Location of original is unknown.","Original is located in the \n Massachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.","Original is located in the \n Rush Rhees Library,\n University of Rochester, Rochester,\n New York.","Original is located in the \n Library of Congress,\n Washington, D.C.","Original is located in \n Washington University,\n St. Louis, Missouri.","Original is located in the \n Massachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.","Location of original is unknown.","Original is located in the \n John Marshall House,\n Richmond, Virginia.","Original is located in the \n Massachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.","Original is located in the \n John Marshall House,\n Richmond, Virginia.","Original is located in the \n Massachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.","Location of original is unknown.","Location of original is unknown.","Original is located in the \n William L. Clements\n Library, Ann Arbor,\n Michigan.","Original is located in the \n University of\n Virginia?","Original is located in the \n Massachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.","Original is located in the Hampton L.\n Carson Collection, \n Free Library of\n Philadelphia, Philadelphia,\n Pennsylvania.","Original is located in the \n John Marshall House,\n Richmond, Virginia.","Original is located in the \n John Marshall House,\n Richmond, Virginia.","Original is located in the \n Massachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.","Original is located in the \n Massachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.","Original is located in the \n Massachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.","Original is privately owned.","Original is located in the \n University of Virginia,\n Charlottesville,\n Virginia.","Original is located in the \n Massachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.","Original is located in the \n National Archives,\n Washington, D.C.","Original is located in the \n University of Virginia,\n Charlottesville,\n Virginia.","Original is located in the \n Massachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.","Original is located in the \n John Marshall House,\n Richmond, Virginia.","Original is located in the \n Massachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.","Original is located in the \n Massachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.","Original is privately owned.","Original is located in the \n Massachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.","Original is located in the \n Washington University,\n St. Louis, Missouri.","Original is located in the Marshall\n Papers, \n Library of Congress,\n Washington, D.C.","Original is located in the \n Library of U.S. Supreme\n Court, Washington D.C.","Original is located in the \n Fauquier County\n Courthouse?","Original is located in the \n Massachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.","See the November and December 1832\n issue of \n The\n Comet .","Original is privately owned.","Original is located in the \n Massachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.","Original is located in the \n John Marshall House,\n Richmond, Virginia.","Original is located in the \n John Marshall House,\n Richmond, Virginia.","Original is located in the \n Massachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.","Original is located in the \n Illinois State Historical\n Library, Springfield,\n Illinois.","Original is located in the Marshall\n Papers, \n Library of Congress,\n Washington, D.C.","Original is located in the \n Massachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.","Original is located in the \n Duke University, Durham,\n North Carolina.","Original is located in the \n Massachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.","Original is located in the \n John Marshall House,\n Virginia State Library.","Original is located in the \n Massachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.","Original is located in the \n John Marshall House,\n Virginia State Library.","Original is located in the \n Massachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.","Original is located in the \n Harvard University,\n Cambridge, Massachusetts.","Location of original is unknown.","Original is located in the \n Virginia State Library,\n Richmond, Virginia.","Original is located in the \n John Marshall House,\n Richmond, Virginia.","Original is located in the \n Rush Rhees Library,\n University of Rochester.","Original is located in the Hampton L.\n Carson Collection, \n Free Library of\n Philadelphia, Philadelphia,\n Pennsylvania.","Original is located in the \n John Marshall House,\n Richmond, Virginia.","Location of original is unknown.","Original is located in the \n John Marshall House, Richmond,\n Virginia.","Original is located in the \n John Marshall House, Richmond,\n Virginia.","Original is located in the \n John Marshall House, Richmond,\n Virginia.","Original is located in the \n John Marshall House, Richmond,\n Virginia.","Original is located in the \n University of Virginia,\n Charlottesville, Virginia.","Original is located in the \n John Marshall House, Richmond,\n Virginia.","Original is located in the \n University of Virginia,\n Charlottesville, Virginia.","Original is located in the \n Virginia State Library,\n Richmond, Virginia.","Original is located in the \n University of Virginia,\n Charlottesville, Virginia.","Original is located in the \n Westover Library, Arlington,\n Virginia.","Original is located in the \n Library of the College of\n Physicians, Philadelphia,\n Pennsylvania.","Original is located in the \n Minnesota Historical Society, St.\n Paul, Minnesota.","Original hangs in the \n Virginia State Library, Richmond,\n Virginia.","This account book has been microfilmed. See\n Marshall, John M-104. 1 reel of negative\n microfilm.","This journal of accounts and law notes has been\n microfilmed. See M-105, M-105a, and M-105b for 3\n copies of positive microfilm. See M-l05c for 1\n reel of negative microfilm.","Original is located in the Pickering Papers, \n Massachusetts Historical Society,\n Boston, Massachusetts.","This journal is available only on microfilm.\n See Marshall, John M-107. 1 reel of negative\n microfilm.","Reprint is avilable in \n The Papers of John\n Marshall, 1796-1798 (vol. 3); edited by\n Herbert A. Johnson, Charles T. Cullen, Nancy G.\n Harris, Charles F. Hobson, et. al. \n Call Number: E302 .M365 v.1 - v.10","The majority of the copies, comprising approximately 50%\n of this collection, are from the Marshall House in\n Richmond, Virginia; the Library of Congress; or the\n Massachusetts Historical Society, but other depositories\n are also represented. For information concerning the\n location of orginials please see the components listing\n below.","See also John Marshall Faculty/Alumni File, University\n Archives, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.","Original letters and copies of letters from other\n repositories, chiefly 1788-1835, of John Marshall's\n correspondence with his wife, Mary Willis (Ambler) Marshall,\n other family members, James Monroe, Joseph Story, Bushrod\n Washington, and others. The correspondence reflects Marshall's\n wide range in interests including law, Virginia and U. S.\n politics, international affairs, agriculture and social\n events.","Also included are letters by family members and\n descendants; a charcoal sketch and copies of visual\n representations of John Marshall; and places and events\n associated with him.","Has delivered his [Monroe's] letters to \n \n Gen[era]l [George Rogers] Clark and \n [John?] Banks ;\n discusses proceedings of the Virginia Assembly;\n R[ichard]\n H[enry] Lee's services to the Assembly\n are lost forever and \n Colo. Harry\n [Henry \"Light Horse Harry\"] Lee will\n probably take his place; mentions bills\n defining citizenship introduced by \n [John]\n Taylor and \n Colo.\n [George] Nicholas ; tells of [Joseph?]\n Jones bill and discusses \n Patrick]\n Henry's style of oratory; relates the\n House being split upon the issue of exclusion\n of the Statute Staple men; discusses military\n warrants for land and his [Marshall's] father,\n who set out for the western country on November\n 5.","Including Tcy of ALS. 2 pages.","Blesses George Washington who resigned his\n commission of 23 December 1783; will put his\n [Monroe's] letter to \n Majr.\n [John] Crittenden into the hands of \n \n Genl. [George Rogers] Clarke , who will\n be in the western country in February, and who\n will pay close attention to his [Monroe's]\n military warrant; mentions that the Speaker\n [John Tyler] has left Richmond; laments the\n passage of the bill excluding Virginian\n delegates to Congress from serving in the\n Virginian legislature; \"Fear of the power of\n Congress I have ever considered as chimerical;\"\n Colo.\n [John Francis] Mercer informed him of the\n passage in the Continental Congress of the\n resolution accepting Virginia's cession of the\n northwest territory.","Including Tcy of ALS. 3 pages.","Has enclosed a bill of exchange for the one\n hundred dollars due him [Monroe] as a Delegate\n to Congress, four dollars having been expended\n on his land warrant now in the hands of the\n Surveyor.","Including Tcy of ALS. 1 page.","Claims he is unable to send money because\n inclement weather has hindered state tax\n collection; \n [Samuel] Ege and\n Monroe's former landlady, Mrs. Shera, are\n clamoring to be paid; mentions the impending\n marriage of \"Little\" \n [John]\n Stewart and \"Kitty Hair\" [Catherine\n Hare]; gossips about \"artificial heat\" of the\n courtships of Mr. Dunn and \"your old\n acquaintance\" Miss Shera, and of \"Tabby\" \n [Tabitha]\n Eppes who \"has grown quite fat \u0026\n buxom, her charms...renovated,\" and her\n unsuccessful suitors: \n [Edward]\n Carrington , [?] Young, [?] Selden, \n [Matthew]\n Wright , and \n Foster Webb,\n [Jr.] ; mentions other friends and state\n officials including \n [Thomas]\n Lomax , \n William]\n Nelson, [Jr.] , \n [Beverley]\n Randolph , and \n [William]\n Short .","Colo.\n [William] Grayson is not here, but \n [Wilson\n Cary] Nicholas is; a quorum was reached\n on Wednesday, [May 12] and committees are being\n appointed; \n [Patrick]\n Henry arrived yesterday and is eager to\n have postponement of the tax collection; the\n Speaker [John Tyler] was chosen without a\n contest; tell \n Colo.\n [John Francis] Mercer that there lies\n £100 in the Treasury for him; he\n [John Marshall] will tell his [John Francis\n Mercer's] brother [James Mercer] in\n Fredericksburg the same; \n Major\n [John] Crittenden is again elected for\n Fayette County; asks him [Monroe] to deliver\n letters for him to \n Doctor [Arthur]\n Lee .","Reports he delivered his [William Branch\n Giles's] letter to \n Major\n [Charles] Magill while in Winchester,\n [Virginia] in August; discusses gaming act and\n several points concerning the case of his\n [William Branch Giles's] client, Mr. Bell; \n \n Brother James [Markham Marshall] has\n arrived from Kentucky and will remain in town\n through October.","Including Tcy of ALS. 2 pages.","Congratulates him on his return from\n Montreal and the Northwest; he too wishes that\n the British debts resolutions had not been\n passed, because it tends to weaken the federal\n bands and provides a pretext for the British to\n retain possession of the forts on the lakes;\n [Joseph Jones] has introduced a bill to provide\n for seven annual payments for repayment to\n begin in April 1786; only bill that has been\n passed was one granting \n [James]\n Rumsey a 10 year monopoly to develop the\n machine in a steamboat; discusses rejected\n bills, including one encouraging intermarriage\n with the Indians; General Assessment and\n circuit court bills will probably be thrown\n out, even with the influence of [Patrick]\n Henry; his [Monroe's] letter recommending \n Colo.\n [John Francis] Mercer did not arrive in\n time to appoint him to a position; \n [Joseph]\n James has replaced \n [William]\n Short , and \n [Spencer]\n Roane and \n [Miles] Selden,\n [Jr.] have replaced \n [Meriwether]\n Smith and \n Colo.\n [William] Christian ; \n [Edward?]\n Carrington was very disappointed in\n losing by one vote when Colo. Jack Nicholas\n walked out on the last ballot; he [John\n Marshall] attempted too to promote Monroe's\n friend's interest, Wilson Nicholas, who is\n about to marry \n Miss\n [Margaret] Smith of Baltimore; his\n [Marshall's] father is willing to help him\n [Monroe] in regards to his [Monroe's] western\n lands, but his [John Marshall's] cousin \n Humphr[e]y\n Marshall would be better able to;\n discusses relative merits of selling or keeping\n his [Monroe's] western lands.","Invitation to dinner; on verso is poem \n Extempore at the\n Convention in Virginia, written by\n Morris, satirizing the slowness of the\n proceedings of the Virginia convention called\n to ratify the U.S. Constitution.","Sends client a second subpoena as the first\n was never returned, concerning a suit in\n Chancery Court which involved title to land in\n Fauquier County, Virginia; asks that any\n depositions or affidavits be forwarded to\n him.","In response to a letter of Washington's, he\n [John Marshall] discusses the legalities of\n caveats and land patents.","Discusses general English legal history of\n intestacy, and Virginia's laws concerning\n priority of payment of a decedent's debts by an\n executor.","Asks for his [Thomas Walker's] account\n rendered to \n [John] Syme for\n other materials which will help him [John\n Marshall] to argue his [Thomas Walker's] court\n case.","Gives \n Col. [Reuben]\n Lindsey [sic] [Lindsay] an order upon him\n [John Marshall] for twelve pounds.","Discusses his [John Marshall's] financial\n obligations to him, including £20\n for a chariot; asks him to pay the governor\n [Henry Lee] for a hogshead of wine for him;\n mentions he is setting out immediately for\n Williamsburg.","Including Tcy ALS. 1 page.","Including Pst of ALS. 1 page.","Advises him [Francis Walker] to take\n testimony showing the value of his [Francis\n Walker's] lands which formerly belonged to \n Mr.\n [Nicholas] Meriwether in preparation of\n his case; discusses his [Francis Walker's]\n other case against \n [William]\n Cabell .","The case will probably be heard in March and\n Mrs. [?] Turnbull's presence will not be\n material; the subjects which the testimony\n should point to are the fortune of Mr. [?]\n Turnbull, the injury done that of Mrs.\n Turnbull, and the expenses she has incurred\n since the separation; if he [Charles Lee] can\n learn that, he will prove himself useful in\n Alexandria.","Note asking Jones to pay Garrett Cottringer\n $100; the bill is endorsed on the verso \"Feby\n 11 1794 Reed Payment, Garrett Cottringer.\"","Respectfully declines the Office of Attorney\n General of the U.S. because of his current\n business in Richmond.","Has transmitted to the clerk of Dumfries a\n transverse to the Fauquier inquest; hopes that\n it will be determined by means of a demurrer at\n the next terms; discusses why he [John\n Marshall] wishes this.","Has just arrived safely in Philadelphia, and\n waits impatiently for the arrival of \n Mr.\n [Alexander] Campbell before considering a\n British debts case; his [John Marshall's] own\n case may not be taken up; mentions attending\n the theatre and compares Philadelphia's\n favorite actress, Mrs. Marshall, to Richmond's \n Mrs. [Anne\n West] Bignall ; has not yet heard from\n his brother, James Markham Marshall; sends\n greetings to his children.","Including Pst of ALS. 2 pages.","In which he [John Marshall] sells 1,640\n acres in Clarke County, Kentucky, near Strouds\n Station which had been patented to Marshall on\n 11 March 1784. At dollars per acre, McCreery\n pays Marshall £500 as a down\n payment, with the balance to be paid when full\n title is proved. The deed is recorded under the\n Seal of the General Court of Virginia on 15\n June 1801.","Upset at the news of \n [Rawleigh]\n Colston's loss, and of the postponement\n of his [John Marshall's] visit to Buckpond,\n stating \"the thoughts of seeing you once\n more...is a principle means of keeping me\n alive\"; is pleased with his son's \"part...in\n the present Storm\"; would like to see his\n grandsons but fears the journey would tax their\n youthful constitutions; discusses his potential\n bequests of his property to the family;\n mentions he has paid taxes on his [John\n Marshall's] military land, but not on that\n which he gave to his grandson, Tom [Thomas\n Marshall] in Fayette [County, Kentucky]; thinks\n that \"the political Horizon [is about] to clear\n up\"; asks Marshall to notify \n Col.\n [Edward] Carrington that he [John\n Marshall] has sent \n Mr. [Peyton]\n Shorts' accounts to \n Mr. [Oliver]\n Walcot [sic] [Wolcott] .","Discusses \n Mr. [John]\n Eyre and \n [James] Nimmo ,\n two of Virginia's electors in the presidential\n election of 1796; comments upon the\n distribution of Virginia's electoral votes\n between \n [Thomas]\n Jefferson , \n Sam[ue]l\n Adams , [?] Clinton, \n [Aaron] Burr , \n \n Gen[era]l [George] Washington , [?] \n Pin[c]kney , and\n John Adams; the Virginia Assembly displays its\n former hostility to Federalism; hopes North\n Carolina will not \"tread the crooked path of\n Virginia\"; will furnish \n [Alexander\n James] Dallas with his [John Marshall's]\n argument in the British debts case.","Tells of a day spent at Mount Vernon\n (\"certainly one of the most delightful\n places in our country\") on his way to\n Philadelphia via Alexandria; misses her so\n much as to send his man \"Dick\" to her with\n this letter; is treated well by his unkle\n [sic] \n [James]\n Keith in Alexandria; \"I never was\n peremptory but I must now give you one\n positive order. It is be happy\"; sends two\n letters which he accidentally carried off\n and asks her to send the one addressed to \n Genl.\n [Henry] Young to \n Mr. [John]\n Hopkins , and to send the other to his\n brother, [Thomas Marshall].","Including Pst of ALS. 2 pages.","Thanks him [Caesar Rodney] for informing\n him that some papers which had slipped out\n of his [John Marshall's] pocket were being\n held by Mr. McCullough at New Castle, whom\n he has requested to post them to\n Philadelphia.","Discusses his voyage up the Chesapeake\n from Baltimore; mentions his first meeting\n with President John Adams; describes \"heavy\n gloom\" which hangs around the almost\n bankrupt Robert Morris and family; is\n impressed by the Vauxhall of Philadelphia\n and fashionable diversions; mentions estate\n of \n Mrs.\n [Susan] Heyward [sic] [Hayward] on the\n banks of the Schuylkil.","Including Pst of ALS. 2 pages.","Is \"extremely chagrined\" at never\n receiving any mail from her; writes he will\n sail on the brig Grace for Amsterdam within\n the week to join \n \n General [Charles] Pinckney ; discusses\n July 4th celebration of the Senators and\n Representatives.","Including Pst of ALS. 2 pages.","Has received her letter of June 30;\n thanks Heaven for her improved health and\n warns her that \"melancholy may inflict\n punishment\" on her unborn child; mentions\n that \n Colonel\n [Robert] Gamble's wife would like to\n visit her; expects to sail by the beginning\n of next week at the latest and is upset at\n the delay; will finish his business and\n return as soon as possible; sends greetings\n to his children and mother-in-law; mentions\n the adjournment of Congress.","Including Pst of ALS. 2 pages.","Sends this letter by \n Mr.\n [Humphrey ?] Marshall ; attended the\n play \n Romeo and\n Juliet last night, and compares \n Mrs.\n [Anne Bruton] Merry's \"Juliet\" to\n Richmond's \n Mrs.\n [Anne] West [Bignall's] ; visited \n Mrs.\n [Susan] Heyward [sic] Hayward and\n gossips about her rumored upcoming marriage\n to [Henry] Baring; complains about delayed\n departure and wearies of dining out, as he\n begins \"to require a frugal repast with good\n cool water\"; wishes \"that we were looking\n back on our separation instead of seeing it\n before us.\"","Including Pst of ALS. 2 pages.","Asks her to give a parcel of land deeds\n from \n [John?]\n Banks to Hobe, which can be found in\n his pine desk in his office, to the clerk of\n the General Court; is impatient to get on\n board ship and away; wishes he had spent\n another week in Richmond; with tomorrow's\n departure of the Republican, \n [Richard]\n Brent , the last of the Virginia\n Congressmen will have left the city; \"my\n spirits sink at parting with them.\"","Including Pst of ALS. 2 pages.","Will board the \n Grace at New\n Castle on Sunday [July 18] and will\n hopefully arrive in Amsterdam by the end of\n August; should hear from him next in\n October; \n Mr. [John]\n Brown [his secretary] has just arrived\n on the last stage; received his son Tom's\n letter of July 6; dined yesterday at William\n Bingham's country seat on the Schuylkil;\n describes the table setting and \n Mrs.\n [Anne Willing] Bingham's dressing in\n the latest fashions; besides his Virginia\n relations, he most enjoys the company of \n Mr. [Robert]\n Morris' family.","Including Pst of ALS. 2 pages.","Unfavorable winds have prevented them\n from reaching the open ocean; describes ship\n board accommodations, provisions, and\n companions, including John Brown, John G.\n Gamble, the Captain of the ship, Mr. Willis,\n and two Dutch gentleman; has sent a letter\n to Winchester, [Virginia] for his son, Tom;\n instructs her how to reach him [John\n Marshall] by letter.","Including Pst of ALS. 2 pages.","1200 or 1300 miles east of the Capes of\n Delaware, Marshall and the crew hailed a\n ship bound for America; has not been very\n seasick and has busied himself with reading;\n has arrived in Holland and sends news of his\n health and safety on the first American\n bound ship.","Including Pst of ALS. 2 pages.","The captain of a British frigate of\n Admiral Duncan's fleet at the mouth of the\n Texel boarded their ship on August 29 but\n treated them extremely politely upon\n learning that a U.S. minister was on board;\n observed the Dutch fleet in the Texel ready\n to move on the British if negotiations at\n Lisle [sic] [Lille] failed; describes the\n internal politics of the French government:\n the Directory presses for war while the\n Council of Five Hundred desires peace,\n fearing the politicization of the French\n army; Lord Malmesberry [sic] [Malmesbury;\n William Harris] is at Lisle [sic] [Lille]\n negotiating for peace between Britain and\n France; Tayleran Perigord [sic] [Charles\n Maurice de Talleyran Perigord], the French\n Minister of foreign affairs, has sent orders\n to French parts to grant immediate passports\n to the American envoys.","Arrived at the Hague and met with \n \n General [Charles C.] Pinckney on\n September 3; has just heard from an express\n from the Dutch minister at Paris to the\n Committee of Foreign Affairs about the\n Directory with the aid of the army moving\n against royalist and right wing opponents in\n the Directory, the Council of Five Hundred\n and the Council of Elders; discusses the\n impact which this coup d'etat of 18\n Fructidor should have upon foreign policy;\n the French government is now in the hands of\n those unfriendly to peace, and the moderates\n willing to judge the American case with\n fairness have been removed; received news of\n Mr.\n [Elbridge] Gerry's intended departure\n from Boston on July 23 and will await his\n arrival in Rotterdam for a week before they\n leave for Paris.","Reached the Hague on August 3 and is very\n much pleased with \n \n General [Charles C.] Pinckney ; had\n intended to set out for Paris immediately,\n but Pinckney received news from \n [Elbridge]\n Gerry on August 5 that he will arrive\n at the end of August; is perplexed and\n mortified at the delay; describes the Hague\n and its social life; mentions lack of\n companions for Pinckney's wife and daughter;\n has enjoyed the theatre even though he does\n not understand the language, and applauds\n the performances of \n \n Madame [Louise Rosalie Lefebvre] de Gazon\n [sic] [DuGrazon] ; the Directory's\n coup in Paris may abridge negotiations so as\n to occasion his return to America this fall,\n but he would resent such a circumstance even\n though he misses her immensely and is\n impatient to be with her again.","Including Pst of ALS. 2 pages.","The reports on the revolution in Paris\n have been confirmed; discusses violations of\n the French constitution, under the hand of\n the army, the very essence of a republic is\n destroyed, but \"French liberty may survive\n the shock it has sustained;\" \"All power is\n now in the undivided possession of those who\n have directed against us those hostile\n measures of which we so justly complain;\"\n will set out for Paris on Monday with or\n without \n [Elbridge]\n Gerry ; contrary to previous reports,\n negotiations still continue at Lille; their\n route to Paris is prescribed on their\n permit, probably to prevent their passing\n through Lisle [sic]; [Philippe Antoine] and \n Merlin [de\n Douai] is chosen director to replace\n Barthelemey and \n \n [Nicholas] Francois de Neufchatil [sic]\n [Neufchateau] to replace Carnot; Mr.\n Noel, the minister of France at the Hague\n has just informed him that 1,500 people have\n been arrested at Lyons and that \n General\n [Andre] Massena is marching to Avignon\n to quell resistance there.","Includes a copy of the letter which the\n three submitted to the French minister of\n foreign affairs after waiting to be received\n for a month; they have yet to receive an\n answer to this November 11 letter, and the\n condemnation of American vessels continues;\n the following is written in a numeric cipher\n which is decoded in superscript: \"Frequent\n and urgent attempts have been made to\n inveigle us again into negociation [sic]\n with persons not officially authorized, of\n which the obtaining of money is the\n basis...we have very little prospect of\n succeeding in our mission.\"","Has enclosed an issue of the Conservative\n [sic] [ \n \n Conservateur (Paris)] as an example\n of the abuse of the U.S. by the French\n press; discusses the arrests of innocent\n American citizens in Paris, including the\n cases of \n [Jesse]\n Putnam , \n [James V.]\n Murray and his brother [George W.\n Murray]; discusses the situation of American\n merchant marines who, being forced ashore\n after their vessels were captured, have no\n choice but to become French privateers;\n \"France resounds with the proposd [sic]\n invasion of England,\" but such talk may be\n designed merely to alarm Britain; discusses\n France's continental ambitions and Spain's\n situation; writes of the internal France\n political scene; encloses the November 7\n issue of the Leyden gazette with news of \n \n [Emmanuel Louis Henri Alexandre de Launay,\n comte] D'Anteaigues and \n [Joseph] Fauche\n [sic] [Fouche] and the reports of \n \n [Gillaume Alexandre] Troncon de\n [Du]Counaray and \n \n [Antoine-Claire] Thibidau [sic]\n [Thibaudeau] ; gives his opinion of\n the future French treatment of the U.S.","Has received no letters from her nor from\n his friends in the U.S.; will not be home\n until May and hopes that the Randolph's\n Executors case can be postponed until then;\n mentions amusements and dissipations of\n Paris; describes his new living arrangements\n [with Madame de Villette].","Including Pst of ALS. 2 pages.","Cannot settle or pay the accounts of\n American Consuls until the Congress of the\n United States acts on the matter; the three\n have agreed to transcend their powers to a\n limited extent in order to liberate distressed\n American seamen and return them to the U.S.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","Presents his compliments to Marshall; called\n at his lodgings twice this morning, but he\n [John Marshall] was not in; regrets that he\n will not be able to dine with him due to a\n previous engagement.","Arrived in Richmond a week ago but hasn't\n been able to attend to his business because of\n his many callers and because of the heat; he\n enjoys the company of his three year old\n daughter, Mary; discusses the health of his\n son, John, who is cutting teeth.","Including Pst of ALS. 2 pages.","Discusses Gerry's letter of 20 October 1798\n to President John Adams, in which he [Elbridge\n Gerry] makes several misstatements about his\n part in the XYZ Affair, which Marshall now\n refutes point by point; \"I must hope sir that\n you will think justly on this subject \u0026\n will thereby save us both the pain of an\n altercation...\"","Apologizes for an article lately published\n listing the offices which he [George\n Washington] offered to him [John Marshall],\n with which he [John Marshall] had nothing to\n do; the writer of the article, who obtained no\n information directly or indirectly from him\n [John Marshall], \"was unquestionably actuated\n by a wish to serve me and by resentment at the\n various malignant calumnies that have been so\n profusely bestowed on me.\"","Is pleased with his [John Marshall's]\n election to the [Congress] even though by a\n small majority; discusses the elections; asks\n him to inform him of the election results when\n all are known.","Will communicate the enclosures of his\n [George Washington's] last letter to \n Col.\n [Edward] Carrington and \n Col. [William]\n Heth when they arrive in town; comments\n upon the elections and the unexpected defeat of\n Col. [George]\n Hancock and Major [?] Haywood; discusses\n the composition of the new state legislature;\n and upon France's declaration of war upon\n Austria and its consequences.","Discusses military appointments and\n recommends several officers, including \n Col. [John]\n Cropper , \n Genl.\n [George Rogers] Clark , \n Genl. [Thomas]\n Posey , Col. James Breckenbridge, \n Col.\n [Callohill] Minnis , \n \n Genl. [Robert] Porterfield of Augusta , \n \n Genl. [Joseph] Blackwell of Fauquier ,\n and \n \n Col. [Joseph] Swearingean of Berkley ;\n comments upon the death of \n Mr. [Patrick]\n Henry .","Was unable to return the enclosed letter\n because he was out of town and his happy that\n he [George Washington] is not displeased that\n it was not transmitted to \n Col. [John]\n Cropper ; has just received his [George\n Washington's] second letter to that gentleman\n and will forward it immediately.","Including Pst of ADS, 2 pages. 5 August\n 1812. Indenture of Isaac Arnold and Elija\n Arnold assigning the title of the Manor of\n Leeds to James K. Marshall.","Encloses a blank power of attorney in order\n to transfer and draw dividends upon his\n Pennsylvania Bank Stock which Mr. [?] Pleasant\n has just remitted him [John Marshall];\n discusses land sales and the Manor of Leeds;\n discusses political situation and how the next\n election will affect their affairs; comments\n upon domestic unrest in regards to foreign\n affairs: \" I look forward with more\n apprehension than I have ever done to the\n future political events of our country;\" has\n just been informed of the total English defeat\n in Holland.","Including TCy of ALS. 2 pages.","Congratulates him on his marriage; the\n newspapers report Philadelphia mourning the\n death of Genl. Washington; hopes that\n moderation and toleration will succeed the\n violence of the last session of Congress; party\n strife exasperates Pennsylvania; the Governor\n has threatened to turn out of office every man\n who voted against him.","Replies to a letter which proposed a\n change of the law for collecting the\n internal revenue of the U.S. in\n nonintercourse law with France; mentions\n that popular feeling is against it, as the\n public sees it responsible for present low\n price of tobacco.","Has received her letter of August 5 and\n is pleased with her account of the\n children's behavior; approves of her sending\n the boys \"upcountry;\" Tom's [Thomas\n Marshall] last letter contained no news of\n her health.","Has just returned from a visit to Mt.\n Vernon where the widowed Mrs. Washington\n appeared \"tolerably cheerful;\" hopes Polly\n would \"show more firmness\" as a widow;\n pleased with his young son, Jacqueline's,\n last letter and hopes his schooling with Mr.\n Burns will continue.","Including Pst of ALS. 1 page.","Discusses the results of the presidential\n election of 1800 in Maryland, New England,\n and Pennsylvania, stating that it is \"an\n absolute certainty that any success in your\n state [South Carolina] elects him [Thomas\n Jefferson].","Reproaches himself for forgetting to\n recommend Major [?] Richardson to him [the\n commander of the 2nd Brig., Virginia\n militia] and does so now, hoping his neglect\n has not been a negative reflection of\n Richardson's abilities.","In compliance with his [John Jay] letter,\n the President [John Adams] has directed a\n requisition to be made to the Governor of\n Lower Canada for the delivery of Thomas\n Jamieson, alias Charles Splendor, a.k.a.\n Charles Johnston to the authorized person;\n the requisition and related documents are\n enclosed.","Discusses the difficulties involved in\n the present negotiations between King and\n the British commissioners; the President\n [John Adams] informs him that an informal\n agreement will be satisfactory as it will be\n impossible to induce the British cabinet to\n abandon their principles; matters are left\n to his good judgment; the stipulation of a\n sum is better than the present unsettled\n situation.","His financial embarrassments have\n prevented him from devoting time to writing\n the history or General Washington's life;\n sends him [John Marshall] a trunk containing\n Washington's books and papers, and an\n enclosed list thereof; wishes he weren't so\n ignorant of bankruptcy proceedings.","Presidential candidates, \n [Thomas]\n Jefferson and \n [Aaron]\n Burr , have an equal number or votes,\n and thus the House or Representatives must\n decide the issue; Marshall aces not care\n which way the election goes, but \"witnesses\n the anxiety of parties;\" suspects the\n contest will be decided by South Carolina;\n even it Jefferson wins, Burr probably \"will\n not surrender...all his pretensions to the\n office;\" is chagrined by the late Federalist\n defeat and blames unfaithful men like Mr.\n [Marston?] or Rhode Island who threw away\n their votes, as attributed in the letters to\n \n General [Alexander]\n Hamilton's pamphlet; the treaty with\n France is before the Senate; \n \n Chief Justice [Oliver] Ellsworth has\n resigned and \n Mr. [John]\n Jay has been nominated in his place;\n looks forward to returning to Richmond in\n March and leaving behind forever his\n political career.","An expression of the sentiments or\n respect which accompanied Vanderburgh's\n presidential commission to become a judge of\n Indiana Territory.","Discusses the probable policies of the new\n [Jefferson] administration; they will\n strengthen the state governments at the expense\n of the Federal, transferring as many powers to\n the House of Representatives as possible; the\n cabinet will probably consist of \n [James]\n Madison as Secretary of State, \n [Henry]\n Dearbourne [sic] as Secretary of War, \n [Albert]\n Gellatin or \n [Abraham]\n Baldwin as Secretary of the Treasury,\n maybe \n General\n [Robert] Smith as Secretary of the Navy,\n and \n [Levi]\n Lincoln or Mr. Livingstone [Robert R.\n Livingston] as Attorney General; many of\n Jefferson's party are disposed to press on to\n war, but the government will probably excite as\n much hate and resentment as possible amongst\n the people against England without proceeding\n to actual hostilities; the ill conduct of the\n British cruisers and Vice Admiralty and the\n remonstrances of American merchants well serves\n this purpose; delay the completion of your\n mission until you hear from the new\n administration as the present agreement with\n the British would not be ratified.","Including TCy of ALS. 2 pages.","Accepts his [Thomas Jefferson's] offer to\n administer the Presidential oath of office to\n him.","Being sued by Virginia on a bond of security\n which he signed for Daniel Brodhead several\n years ago, Marshall has learned that the\n recipient of this letter was acquainted with\n the advertisements which Brodhead was required\n to post; he sends him a commission, therefore,\n and asks for his and Colonel Anderson's\n depositions concerning Brodhead and his\n business.","Is composing a history of General\n Washington's life and requests information\n about the war in the Southern states, because\n General [?] Lincoln's letters to Washington in\n his [John Marshall's] possession do not tell\n much about the combined Franco-American\n operations at Savannah in 1779; send any\n important particulars respecting the siege of\n Charleston; is disgusted with the political\n world and hopes to see him [Charles Cotesworth\n Pinckney] in Richmond soon; asks about the\n political climate of South Carolina and thinks\n federalism may prevail in three districts in\n Virginia's state elections.","Discusses the mild but rainy weather and\n mentions various calamities which have befallen\n him: \"15 silver dollars\" of his \"had worn\n through\" his pocket \"and sought their liberty\n in the sands of Carolina;\" and when his man\n Peter unpacked his clothes, he discovered that\n he had not packed any of Marshall's breeches;\n \"I thought I shou'd be sans culotte only one\n day,\" but all the town's were too busy to work\n for him; \"I have the extreme mortification to\n pass the whole term without that important\n article of dress...\"","Including Pst of ALS. 3 pages.","Thanks him for an oration which he sent on\n the death of Alexander Hamilton; hopes that\n Hamilton's death will cast some odium upon\n dueling; was not aware that he had played a\n part in producing the commercial meet in\n Baltimore; did not know he resigned the\n emoluments of his military service.","Has received his [John Marshall's] November\n 2 letter requesting information for his [John\n Marshall's] history of General Washington's\n life, and will send his recollections of many\n transactions as soon as he can put them to\n paper; he [John Marshall] should also contact\n Colonel [Bushrod] Washington; will send the\n book \n Campaigns of 1780 and\n 1781 , supposedly written with [?]\n Tarleton's assistance, which contains more\n official documents than any other work and\n correct plans of some of the actions, if it\n will be of any use.","Arrived at her mother's yesterday, and found\n her not as well as he had hoped; her sisters\n are well; forgot to pay his brother Charles\n five dollars for his [John Marshall] son John's\n schooling; things are badly conducted at his\n [John Marshall's] plantation.","Discusses the problems of the Fairfax lands\n and the people of Winchester; will endeavor to\n raise a considerable part of the money required\n for payment.","Including TCy of ALS. 2 pages.","Asks for the money which he [John Ambler]\n owes him for payment for land; needs it to make\n his [John Marshall's] payment to Mr. [?]\n Fairfax, which fact he [John Ambler] knew; his\n [John Marshall's] brother William will take the\n contract off his [John Ambler's] hands if\n desired.","Takes no offense at his [John Marshall]\n printing of his [John Adams] letters to \n Gen[era]l\n Washington in his [John Marshall's]\n biography of Washington; in detailing the\n events of the last years of Washington's life,\n he [John Marshall] \"will run the gauntlet\n between two influential factions, armed with\n scorpions...;\" but such an investigation must\n be made; comments upon his [John Adams]\n appointing \n Gen[era]l\n Washington to head of the army.","Has received his [James Markham Marshall's]\n letter enclosing Col. Thurston's deed; did not\n hear about his [James Markham Marshall's] suit\n with Stevens; Fitzhugh's note is in [?]\n Williams' hand but has yet to get process\n executed on him as he stays at different places\n in Maryland and can't be easily found;\n discusses arrangements made for their nephew\n Tom, with their brother William.","Discusses politics and report of Mr. [?]\n Chesnut that the Democratic Party in South\n Carolina would unquestionably support him\n [Charles Cotesworth Pinckney]; the late\n convention at New York confided that \"unless\n this point can be gained...we [the Federalists]\n shall again miscarry;\" no times have been more\n perilous than the present because of the\n internal changes wrought \"by a party always\n hostile to our constitution\" and because of\n even greater external threats; if the present\n foreign policy with France is continued, the\n United States \"will soon become an empty name\"\n and will no longer be independent; has spent\n his time on agricultural pursuits instead of\n professional duty, and scarcely ever reads a\n newspaper, but the nation's troubles are too\n serious for him to continue to do so; the\n Virginia Federalists may win three or four\n seats in the next Congress, but there is no\n hope for the presidential election.","Requests him to pay James Brown one thousand\n dollars when his [John Marshall's] quarterly\n salary accrues on October 1.","Richmond Federalists have mutinied, and have\n recommended to their brethren throughout\n Virginia to support the Monroe ticket; was out\n of town but attempts to explain the reasons for\n such action.","Is honored to be chosen as a corresponding\n member of the Massachusetts Historical Society;\n as he will not return to Washington, [D.C.]\n until February, perhaps some member of Congress\n might find room in his baggage for the volume\n he [John Eliot] mentioned.","Asks him to send the collections of the\n Society.","Discusses arrangements being made with Mr.\n [?] Willing and [?] Francis to take his [John\n Marshall] two sons, [John and James Keith\n Marshall], into their counting house when they\n reach the age of 16; outlines their recommended\n course of study before then; Mr. [?] Waln[?]\n will receive his [John Marshall] other son,\n [Edward Carrington Marshall], into his\n mercantile establishment, if the precarious\n state of the country: commerce permits it, when\n he comes of age; asks if he should send his\n [John Marshall] half-pipe of wine to Richmond\n by way of Norfolk.","Including Ph. 1 page. Incomplete.","Acknowledges letters of Apr. 22, 29, and 30.\n Outlines patents to Virginia land. Philip\n Pendleton, Anderson, and Hunter involved in\n caveat; advises against use of treasury warrant\n for 1,180 acres. Colston. Decision in Hunter\n and Fairfax case, decided in favor of Hunter.\n Asks Lee's opinion as to appeal to Supreme\n Court; John Marshall favors appeal; sending\n record; Jones to be engaged as attorney to help\n Lee. Cause precedent for pending caveats if\n Supreme Court \"against us,\" save expense; if\n \"in our favor,\" probably respected or ascertain\n points for ultimate determination \"in our\n favor.\"","Is gratified by the compliments he [John\n Marshall] paid to him in his last letter, and\n hopes to continue his service to the country;\n has not learned if [?] Serruier is charged with\n any special orders to the government; [?]\n Turreau has for some time desired to return to\n France; asks him [John Marshall] for a proper\n statement of an anecdote concerning Temple\n Franklin and Benjamin Franklin Bache's\n unsuccessful attempts to establish a newspaper,\n which he [John Marshall] related to him last\n year.","Including Pst of ALS. 2 pages.","Upon his return from the \"laborious\n relaxation\" of his farm, he found the\n President's [Madison] message, the report of\n the committee of foreign relations, and the\n declaration of war against Great Britain.","Accepts his invitation to dine with him.","Accepts his invitation to dine with him on\n Wednesday.","Cannot direct the special court he [Littleon\n Wailer Tazewell] requested because the law\n authorizing a circuit judge to perform the\n duties of a district judge is limited only to\n the case of the disability of an existing\n district judge, and does not extend to the case\n of a vacancy of that office; has notified the\n Secretary of State of the public hardships if\n an appointment is postponed.","Received a copy of his book, Historical\n Letters, and asks Mr. [?] Pleasant to sign him\n up as a subscriber; comments favorably upon the\n work, a comparative history of the nations of\n the world.","Received his cheek for $500 and letter upon\n his [John Marshall] return from North Carolina;\n will receive four sets of \n The Life of\n Washington from \n Mr. [Mason\n Locke] Weems ; discusses a case of\n Admiralty business which he had just heard in\n circuit court and asks for his [Bushrod\n Washington] opinion; is anxious to terminate\n next court's business so he can devote himself\n to the farm.","Including TCy of ALS. 2 pages.","Discusses whether the power to pass\n bankruptcy laws resides in the states or in the\n federal government; discusses part of\n Constitution which inhibits passage of \"law\n impairing the obligation of contracts\" and how\n it relates to bankruptcy laws; says he [Bushrod\n Washington] heard the argument and his opinion\n could be relied upon better than his.","Asks what provision is made for them at\n their session; will he make accommodations for\n them; asks \"Are we to have peace; or is the war\n to be continued till we are dismembered?\"","Asks him [Bushrod Washington] to ask the\n counting house of Messrs. Willing \u0026 Francis\n if they are still willing to take his [John\n Marshall] fifteen year old son James (now a\n student at Cambridge) into their firm.","Has made inquiries in response to his\n letter; land for which taxes are unpaid before\n August will be sold; payment can be made to the\n Sheriff of the county; discusses George\n Washington letters and how he thinks they\n should be published; asks him to settle a\n newspaper account for him.","Encloses a copy of a letter from Robert\n Colston in which he [Robert Colston] complains\n of his [John Ambler's] withholding payment and\n threatens him John Ambler] with a lawsuit;\n suggests that he [John Ambler] give Mr. Colston\n an order on Mr. [?] Smith for the amount in\n question with as little delay as possible.","Discusses civil admiralty jurisdiction about\n which he had formed an opinion from the\n characters in a case of piracy not from\n precedent; wishes him to discuss revision of \n \"The Life\" [of George\n Washington] with Mr. Wayne while he is\n in Philadelphia; explains his ideas for the\n organization of the work; says it must be\n prepared at leisure and not offered until there\n is a demand for it.","Encloses a memorandum from the Auditors'\n office concerning William Marshall's lands in\n Nason and Franklin counties, [Kentucky], and a\n letter which he wishes delivered to his sister\n [Jane (Marshall) Taylor]; she desired him to\n engage a house for her at Fauquier Court\n House.","Encloses a memorandum from the Filson club.\n 2 pages. Including TCy of ALS.","After reading the recipient's address to the\n New York Historical Society, he sends him his\n thoughts on the study of history.","Discusses the Washington social life; is\n impressed with the French minister and his wife\n [?]; \n [William]\n Wirt arrived yesterday but he brought no\n letters; warns her to take enough blankets to\n arm herself against the intense cold when she\n goes to Chiccahoniiny [sic] on February 21.","Including Pat of ALS. 2 pages.","Asks Marshall to administer the Presidential\n oath to him.","Including Pst of ALS. 1 page. Also including\n TCy of ALS. 1 page.","Agrees to administer the Presidential oath\n of office to James Monroe.","Including Ph. neg. of ALS. 1 page.","Has read in \n Jaquelin\n [Marshall]'s last letter news of her ill\n health, and advises her not to expose herself\n to the cold in her fears of being too warm; he\n is in good health and is busily employed. 1\n page. ALS. Including ALS on verso from John\n Marshall, to his son [John?], discussing farm\n matters, and asking him to receive the\n overseer's letter concerning such things as\n preparing the soil with plaster of paris\n grubbing, cutting, and burning; does not want\n him to send packages by post, but by private\n conveyance if available; sends him a note for\n $60 to pay Mr.[?] Cocke for 20 barrels of corn;\n asks about \n James [Keith\n Marshall] and hopes he has engaged in a\n course of reading.","Also Including TCy of ALS. l page. Also\n Including Pst of ALS. 2 pages.","Encloses a letter from \n \n General [Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du\n Motier, Marquis de] Lafayette , which he\n has been unable to deliver in person, as the\n General had instructed; saw \n Juge\n [sic] [Bushrod] Washington several months\n earlier, and was informed by him that Mr. [?]\n Graham returned to Lafayette the General's\n papers, which Marshall had borrowed.","Including ALS, 22 April 1817, from \n [Marquis de]\n Lafayette , La grange, [France], to John\n Marshall, United States, Virginia. Introducing\n his friend M. des Caves; praises Marshall's\n biography of Washington and says that most of\n his correspondence with Washington was lost\n during the French Revolution; mentions the\n copies of Washington's letters to him, which he\n desires to be returned to him by Bushrod\n Washington; recommends M. desCaves to him [John\n Marshall].","Including TCy of ALS. 2 pages.","Is unable to accept his invitation to dine\n with him because of his health.","Requests that his case before the \n [Supreme]\n Court be given a day's respite as the\n extremes of weather have incapacitated him.","Has received and finally read the address\n which he presented to the New York\n Historical Society; was much pleased with\n its clarity and lucid arrangement, and feels\n the public would like to see more from his\n pen.","Asks for information about nail making\n machines in Boston, for a friend of his who\n might like to purchase one; the opinion in\n the Banks case \"has roused the sleeping\n spirit of Virginia\" and will be attacked in\n the papers.","Asks him to purchase books for his [John\n Marshall] nephew, [?] Taylor who is at\n school in Kentucky; makes arrangements to\n pay the bookseller and [?] Deiplaine, and to\n have him send the volumes, including \" \n Terence [sic] \u0026\n Livy in Latin, Longinus , \n Thucydides, \u0026\n Demosthenes in Greek , also \n Xenophens retreat of\n the 10,000 \" to his [John Marshall]\n brother, \n Doctor\n [Louis] Marshall , in Kentucky;\n discusses dissatisfaction of Virginian\n politicians with the Supreme Court's opinion\n on the Bank question; \"we shall be denounced\n bitterly in the papers... and we shall\n undoubtedly be condemned as a pack of\n consolidating aristocratics;\" mentions\n unexpected and long unheard of financial\n distress of Richmond merchants.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page. Also\n including Pst of ALS. 2 pages.","Extracted from a letter of Joseph Story's\n to John Marshall describing a $1000\n nail-making machine invented by Mr. [?]\n Perkins, and used extensively in the\n Amesbury Factory near Salem, Massachusetts;\n also describes two different, less expensive\n models patented by Mr. [?] Reed [?], and\n discusses arrangements for their sale and\n delivery.","Discusses an error in his published\n manuscript [of a court decision?] which he\n [John Marshall] wishes Mr. [ ] Bronson to\n correct.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page. Including\n Pst of ALS. 1 page.","Discusses the gross misrepresentations\n the Democratic-Republicans have attributed\n to the Court's opinion in the Bank case in\n order to excite ferment in the masses; asks\n his advice on a case in Admiralty Court,\n that the \n Little\n Charles , libeled for violating the\n 1808 Embargo Act.","If the publication of his [John Marshall]\n work has not yet commenced, he would rather\n have the signature changed to \"A\n Constitutionalist\"; the letters of\n Amphyction and of Hampden have had more\n influence in the country than in Richmond;\n hopes some respectable legislators will\n refute them.","Questions him [Joseph Story] about an\n admiralty case concerning the hypothecation\n of a vessel belonging to the port of\n Richmond; discusses legal principles of\n hypothecation in general in the United\n States; does not think that a piece in the\n Boston papers should be republished, Mr. [?]\n Wheaton's appendix; leaves the opinion in\n the militia case for him [Joseph Story] to\n write.","Discusses the legal principles of\n hypothecation and maritime law as he [Joseph\n Story] sees them in regards to a case in New\n York, and concludes that the chief-question\n is \"whether the ports of the different\n states are to be deemed foreign ports in\n respect to the rights of the hypothecation\n or of implied lien\"; in his [Joseph Story]\n district, as well as in South Carolina,\n Maryland, Pennsylvania, and New York, they\n are; he [Joseph Story] \"is open to argument\n and will follow in a better path. And as the\n advancement of the law, and not merely of\n our private opinions should be the great\n ambition of all judges, I am quite content\n to yield to the judgement of others.\"","Mentions a trial at Richmond for piracy\n and discusses the lack of international law\n regarding the same; writes of his\n subscription to Mr. Bronson's \n Gazette of the United\n States which has become the \n Union .","Discusses constitutional issues involving\n piracy, the slave trade, and the Supreme Court;\n mentions \n \n [Littleton Waller] Tazewell .","Has not formed an opinion of the case which\n was remanded to the circuit court of\n Pennsylvania; congratulates him on the prospect\n of a full docket in \n [New] Jersey and\n upon his empty one in North Carolina; he called\n on Mr. Blair, the President of the Bible\n Society, who says he [Bushrod Washington] was a\n permanent member of the society and in arrears\n for the years 1816-1819; was frozen on the \n Rosaline , has\n scarcely thawed out.","Hopes none of the papers of George\n Washington have miscarried; sent the last ones\n to him [Bushrod Washington] by a coal vessel of\n Alexandria; has employed a person to copy the\n pre-Revolutionary letters of General\n Washington, and he [John Marshall] will himself\n copy the military letters in his possession\n after he [Bushrod Washington] informs him in\n which volume they will be published; he [John\n Marshall] will also proceed to copy the letters\n written between the close of the war and the\n adoption of the constitution, and has retained\n no others.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page. Including Pst\n of ALS. 2 pages.","Encloses an affidavit stating that he [John\n Marshall] lost the certification meant for \n T[homas?]\n Marshall and asks him [Bushrod\n Washington] to send from Philadelphia a bond to\n be executed; has received from Mr. Ward of\n Salem a copy of a letter written by \n Mr. W[illia]m\n Fairfax to Capt. Clarke of Salem dated\n Belvoir 22d. February 1749, which states that\n \"Major Washington [has] just returned from\n London whither he lately went to get his\n arrears of pay \u0026 be put on the\n establishment of half pay...\" concludes that\n this cannot be George Washington; poses\n questions about George Washington's genealogy;\n asks him [Bushrod Washington] to talk with the\n editor of Langhornes' Plutarch while in\n Philadelphia about an anecdote concerning\n George Washington selling his old charger.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page. Including Pst\n of ALS. 2 pages.","Discusses Mr. Moorehead's purchase of Mr.\n Johnson's land in Fauquier County; wheat and\n other crops are doing well.","Describes being thrown by a horse; will\n bring the letters they agreed to copy to\n Washington; wishes him to speak again with Mr.\n Wayne about a second edition of the life of \n [George]\n Washington ; recommends that \n Mr. [Mason\n Locke] Weems have a subscription paper\n for the letters and life at the same time;\n thinks they should reduce the charges on the\n life to half a dollar per volume, then the\n second volume might be sold for two dollars a\n volume.","Hopes his [Bushrod Washington] health will\n improve so he can come visit at the end of the\n month so they can deliver opinions on various\n cases including the one from Virginia \"which\n has exerted so much commotion in our\n legislature\" [a case involving an act of\n Congress allowing a lottery in Washington, D.C.\n with ticket sales in Virginia contrary to\n Virginia law. See JK/159l/V5/Rare Book\n (Virginia)/].","A letter of \n James [Keith\n Marshall]'s informed him [John Marshall]\n of her return from Chicahominy; hopes that the\n celebrations of the 22nd did not disturb her\n too much; \n Judge\n [Bushrod] Washington is not well; he\n [John Marshall] is very busy at Court; dines\n out frequently and eats too much; does not\n attend the continual gay parties in Washington.\n 2 pages. ALS. Including ALS on verso from John\n Marshall to his son [James Keith Marshall],\n asking about the health of Jacob, one of the\n slaves; tells him to purchase as much clover\n seed as he can if he does not get the money\n from [?] Smith.","Including Pst of ALS. 2 pages.","Hopes his health was not injured by his\n traveling to Philadelphia to perform his\n circuit duties; mentions case in his circuit\n involving merchants indebted to the U.S. on\n duty bonds; recommends the writings of Algernon\n Sidney.","Asks his opinion of legalities of a case\n concerning insolvency and priority of payment\n to creditors; the Supreme Court opinion in the\n Lottery case virulently assaulted in the\n newspapers, especially by Algernon Sidney in\n the \n Enquirer who is\n \"supposed to be the champion of the state\n rights.. .[but] really is the champion of\n dismemberment;\" is anxious to hear if his\n [Joseph Story] and \n [Daniel]\n Webster's amendment to the Massachusetts\n constitution was approved by the people or\n not.","Discusses legal principles of partnership,\n joint property and the priority of the payment\n of debts under English and American bankruptcy\n laws; writes of the federal government; reports\n on the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention;\n will send on the next vessel for Richmond some\n Salem fish and a recipe on how to cook\n them.","Thanks him for his opinion on the case on\n which he [John Marshall] consulted him; has\n enclosed the letter from \n Mr. [James]\n Madison to Genl. Washington which he\n [John Marshall] had selected last winter but\n forgot to send; discusses the legal matter of\n inland and foreign bills and hypothecation\n relating to the New York case.","Including TyC of ALS. 1 page. Including Pst\n of ALS. 2 pages.","Is grateful for his expressions of esteem;\n hopes the harmony of the bench will never be\n disturbed; discusses \n [Thomas]\n Jefferson's and \n [James]\n Madison's doubts of the Supreme Court as\n the ultimate arbiter of the constitutional\n questions; comments upon Jefferson's character\n and influence over the people; encloses\n Algernon Sidney's essays with their weak\n argument and violent language; in the Virginian\n newspapers \"not a pen is drawn in support of\n the sound principles of the constitution of the\n Union... I look elsewhere for safety.\"","Has received the fish and will cook it\n according to instructions; discusses Mr. [?]\n Hall and his intended publication of Algernon\n Sidney's essays and asks if he [Joseph Story]\n can prevent it; Mr. [?] Caedwell has not yet\n sent the volume of the debates of the\n Massachusetts Constitutional Convention;\n discusses the designs of the\n Democratic-Republicans in attacking the Supreme\n Court; questions him about a case involving\n William McKinly, a tax collector, and his\n depositions.","Asks him to join him at dinner on Tuesday at\n 4 o'clock.","Makes arrangements for his [Littleton Waller\n Tazewell's] deposition to be taken on 23 May;\n if \n \n General [Robert Barraud] Taylor and Mr.\n [?] Blair are out of town, send for magistrates\n and have the necessary steps taken.","Has received the President's message to\n Congress concerning internal improvements, \"a\n question which very much divides the opinions\n of intelligent men;\" \"a general power over\n internal improvements, if to be exercised by\n the Union, would certainly be cumbersome to the\n government, \u0026 of no utility to the people.\n But to the extent you recommend, it would be\n productive of no mischief, and of great good;\"\n he [John Marshall] despairs that such a measure\n will be adopted.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","Has found in the Journal of the House of\n Delegates that the bill for confiscating Lord\n Fairfax's estate passed in January 1786, but\n was defeated in the Senate; discusses the role\n of the Supreme Court in deciding cases relating\n to treaties; will not be at Happy Creek before\n 6 August; will also visit Cumberland, Mr.\n Colston's and maybe Bath.","Including TCy of ALS. 2 pages.","Grants power of attorney to him [Benjamin\n Watkyns [sic] Leigh] to make or endorse any\n notes given by Edward Colston, James Marshall\n or \n James\n M[arkham] Marshall for the purpose of\n paying a debt to the Bank of the United States\n due from Nimrod Farrow or from the estate of \n Turner [?]\n Dixon .","Asked Mr. [?] Williams about the information\n he [Jaquelin B. Harrie] desired; he [Williams]\n wrote that he gave his letter to the delegate\n from Florida, who has yet to answer it.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","Discusses his trip from Richmond and the\n rainy weather; did not find Mr. [?] Skinker at\n home, so arrived last night at his friend's \n General [?]\n Blackwell's , who is almost blind; Tom\n [Thomas Marshall] was there earlier\n electioneering; the election will be closer\n than he [John Marshall] had originally\n thought.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page. Also including\n Pst of ALS. 2 pages.","Met his son, \n Edward\n C[arrington] Marshall ; introduced him to\n several gentlemen in Boston, and recommended\n him to the President of Harvard College; made\n arrangements for him [Edward Carrington\n Marshall] to live in Cambridge and to be\n tutored until rooms at the College are assigned\n after commencement; discusses his [Edward\n Carrington Marshall] expenses; takes great\n pleasure in aiding him in all measures;\n discusses his [John Marshall] latest decision\n on the Cashier of the Branch Bank of the United\n States; is anxious about the appointment of \n \n [Supreme Court] Judge [Henry B.]\n Livingston's successor.","Thanks him for his friendly attentions to\n his [John Marshall's] son, [Edward Carrington\n Marshall]; gives his opinion of the case of the\n Bank of the United\n States v. Dandridge ; alarmed at the\n rumored successor of their \"much lamented\n friend\" [Supreme Court Justice Henry B.\n Livingston].","Discusses libels against his father, John\n Lowell, and against himself; encloses letters\n to editors printed in local papers in\n defense.","Including NCls. 6 pages.","Received his letters of 25 and 28 October\n and was astonished to learn that he feels he\n [John Marshall] deliberately and unnecessarily\n \"altered expressions which would be construed\n into the imputation of a crime..., against a\n gentleman...\"; there was no evidence in the\n cases decision that his [John Lowell] testimony\n was disregarded or discredited-- \"the opinion\n speaks for itself.\"","Brother \n [Bushrod]\n Washington had to adjourn the court at\n Philadelphia because of his illness; discusses\n a case on his [John Marshall's] circuit\n concerning the American ship, \n Pilot , captured\n by pirates and later recaptured by a squadron\n under \n Commodore\n [David] Porter ; comments upon the\n extreme bitterness of \n Mr. [John]\n Adams , whom he still respects, and the\n publication of some of his correspondence.","Received the President's message to\n Congress, and thanks him for his mark of polite\n attention; he [John Marshall] too thinks that\n \"we cannot look on the present state of the\n world with indifference.\"","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","Thanks him for the report of the Secretary\n of the Treasury.","Was uneasy that she heard of his accident\n before his letter reached her; his fall has\n kept him from court longer than he had\n expected; feels pain only when he moves;\n doctors say he is mending faster than they had\n expected; is treated with a great deal of\n kindness and attention; wives of the cabinet\n members call on him; passes the long hours of\n the night by thinking of her and their early\n life together.","Including Pst of ALS. 2 pages.","Will soon return to Richmond by steamboat;\n makes arrangements to have his servant, Oby,\n meet him at the dock to carry his portmanteau;\n is not able to use his arm; was surprised to\n see \n \n John and Elizabeth [(Alexander)\n Marshall] , who were in town because the\n boat on which they traveled was being repaired,\n and they were making their way to Baltimore by\n stage.","Including Pst of ALS. 2 pages.","Missed seeing him at Hanover Court House on\n Monday, presumably because of the cloudiness of\n the weather; will be there next court day to\n meet him unless it is inconvenient, in which\n case he [Tom] should let him [John Marshall]\n know immediately.","Has just finished reading the copy of his\n \"Dissertation on the Nature and Extent of the\n Jurisdiction of the Courts of the United\n States,\" which he sent to him [John Marshall];\n thanks him for the flattering manner in which\n he discusses some of his [John Marshall]\n opinions.","Thanks for sending a copy of his message to\n Congress; regrets that he [Monroe] is retiring,\n but congratulates him on his presidency.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","Reached Washington yesterday and paid his\n accustomed visit to the President; he [John\n Marshall] occupies the same room as last year;\n neither \n Judge\n [William] Johnson nor \n [Joseph]\n Story has arrived, and \n [Thomas]\n Todd is close to death; the roads were so\n good for the winter, he was glad he did not\n take the steamboat; rode from Hanover\n Courthouse to Fredericksburg with a Mrs.\n (Booth) Stone; dined with his aunt [?] Keith on\n Sunday; his nephew, William Marshall, visited\n him on Saturday; hopes that Mr. [?] Picket has\n filled the ice house already.","Including Pst of AL. 2 pages.","Discusses presidential election of 1824;\n ascribes it to the letters of [?] Kremer and to\n Mr. [?] Vanraensaeller's reluctant last-minute\n vote for [John Quincy] Adams; speculates about\n the Cabinet; including Mr. [?] Crawford's\n refusal of the Treasury, and \n [Henry]\n Clay's rumored acceptance of the State\n Department.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","Has received letters from his son and from\n his nephew, George [?], and has learned of the\n marriage of his [John Marshall] nephew, Edward\n Colston, who has moved to Honeywood, [Berkeley\n County, Virginia]; asks her to inform Mr. [?]\n Cole that he [John Marshall] has received his\n new black suit, and that \n [George]\n Kremer will soon print \"a most scurrilous\n piece of abuse against \n [Henry] Clay [an\n anonymous letter in the \n Columbia\n Observer accusing him of bargaining with\n John Quincy Adams to give his support in the\n presidential election in return for the office\n of Secretary of State]; her [Mary Willis Ambler\n Marshall] cousin, Mrs. [?] Walker, thanked him\n for his check and the subscription raised for\n her by the members of Congress.","Including Pst of AL. 2 pages.","Asks him to accept a copy of his\n [Marshall's] colonial history; congratulations\n him on the successful termination of his\n political career.","Is much honored by his election to the\n Bunker Hill Monument Association and asks what\n his membership will entail.","Has received his letters and documents\n stating his [Monroe's] claims on the U.S.;\n expects that he [Monroe] will receive as much\n as has ever been allowed to others for similar\n services.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","Thanks her for her letter recommending [?]\n Caldwell, but he has already pledged himself to\n another person seeking office.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","In response to his [John Marshall's]\n requests in his last letter, he [John Sergeant]\n is enclosing copies of Mr. [?] Giles' speech\n found in Dunlap and Claypoole's 16 December\n 1796 paper and in the \n Aurora of the\n 15th sources located at the [?] Library; and\n germane to his biography of Washington.","Thanks him for a copy of his [John\n Marshall's] history of the English colonies\n of North America which Joseph Story\n delivered a few weeks earlier; quotes Lord\n Kames [?] from his \n The Gentleman\n Farmer (1779); \"I disregard the\n present rebellion of our Americans; for they\n will soon be reduced to obedience;\"\n discusses present westward movement of the\n American population and predicts a new\n western confederacy of the movement of the\n national capital westward in the next\n generation; comments upon his [John\n Marshall's] statements on slavery,\n mentioning \n \n Colonel [Edward] Carrington's and \n Mr.\n [Thomas] Jefferson's views on\n miscegenation and the Colonization Society's\n efforts; discusses Georgia's \n \n Governor [George M.] Troup's detested\n views on the slaves and Creek Indians, which\n seem to be held by most Georgians, who would\n defy the authority of the Union if they\n dared; that authority rests on \"the purity,\n the intellegence and the firmness\" of the\n Supreme Court; hopes he [John Marshall] long\n remains at the head.","Has read \n Mr.\n [William Branch] Giles' latest article\n in the \n Richmond\n Enquirer on John Quincy Adams, which\n attributes his [John Quincy Adams's] \"past\n conversion to \n \n Jeffersonism \" to \" \n his own personal\n promotion and aggrandizement; \" Giles\n claims that Adams' message indicated his\n intentions to introduce unlimited powers\n into the government, but he [Timothy\n Pickering] disagrees; discusses Adams'\n policies regarding internal improvements, a\n national university, and the promotion of\n agriculture, all of which Washington\n recommended, and their constitutionality;\n discusses Giles, his character, and his\n political ambitions; writes of James\n Monroe's and William Pinckney's treaty with\n Great Britain and their letter to Congress,\n Monroe's bid for the Presidency, and his\n subsequent reconciliation with Jefferson;\n mentions Secretary of the State Robert\n Smith's correspondence with the British\n Minister [?] Jackson; his resignation, and\n published defense; discusses the death of\n Virginian U.S. District Court Judge Cyrus\n Griffin and the appointment of his successor\n John Tyler, ex-Governor of Virginia; which\n was made to make room for Monroe as\n Governor; Monroe was appointed to the State\n Department, \"the vestibule to the\n President's Palace,\" when Smith resigned;\n discusses Jefferson's motives for not laying\n the treaty with Great Britain before\n Congress; concludes with Joseph Hopkinson's\n thoughts on Jefferson, Madison, and\n Monroe.","Left Alexandria for Washington a day\n early because the weather was good for\n traveling; he, \n [Bushrod]\n Washington , and \n [Gabriel]\n Duval await the arrival of their\n brother \n Justices\n [Joseph] Story and \n [Smith]\n Thompson ; Judge Johnson went by way\n of Norfolk and will not arrive till\n Wednesday or Thursday; \n Judge\n [Thomas] Todd is unable to make the\n journey; discusses his journey and health:\n \"I am under the persecution of the\n infuenza;\" will open the court and wait on\n the President tomorrow.","Including Pst of ALS. 2 pages.","Discusses his daily routine and his\n health; \n [Judge\n Joseph] Story arrived today; he was\n delayed a week in Philadelphia by influenza;\n discusses a loan of $200 to Tom [Thomas\n Marshall, his son]; has received three\n invitations for dinner parties this week;\n discusses the gaiety of the Washington\n social scene; jests about Lucy Fisher [his\n niece] marrying [Dr. Daniel Norborne Norton]\n and persuading him to run for Congress.","John [Marshall,\n his son] passed through the city, but\n he did not have a chance to see him; was\n pleased to hear that she was well, expecting\n \"the uncommon warmth of the season had\n relaxed your system so as to distress your\n feelings;\" he enjoys his usual health; \"was\n at a very great crowd at \n Mrs.\n [John Quincy] Adams' drawing room;\"\n dined yesterday with \n \n Mr. [John] Randolph [of Roanoke] who\n is as much engaged in party politics as he\n has always been.","Including Pst of ALS. 2 pages.","Congratulates him on his good health;\n gives his thoughts on Southern slavery;\n mentions Georgia's Governor [George M.\n Troup] and the treaty with the Creeks;\n discusses \n Mr.\n [William Branch] Giles ; thanks him\n for his recollections of the events of the\n last twenty years.","Has received his letter expressing his\n interest in the position of the clerk of the\n Supreme Court; the applicants are numerous\n and worthy; recalls their former\n acquaintance, and is confident in his\n competence, but wants to make such an\n important appointment \"without any\n pre-engagements.\"","Replies to his letter recommending Mr.\n [?] Randall for the vacant office in the\n Clerkship of the Supreme Court; discusses\n his feelings regarding the appointment; has\n been having trouble with famine and\n drought.","Discusses marriage arrangements of his\n son \n \n Edward [Carrington Marshall] with the\n Judge's daughter.","Apologizes for his last letter of 15\n September 1826; did not realize that he\n [Fay] was opposed to Edward Carrington\n Marshall's marriage to his [Fay's] daughter;\n \"I hope Edward has received notice of your\n decision... It will be [a] kindness to\n awaken him as soon as possible from the\n dreams of happiness in which he has been too\n long indulging.\"","Has finally discovered the letters in the\n Aurora from 23\n October to 5 November 1795 written by the\n \"Calm Observer\" relating to the charge of\n illegal payment of the President's salary\n and the replies thereto by \n [Alexander]\n Hamilton and \n O.[?]\n Wolcott ; these were not written by \n [William\n Branch] Giles ; \n Judge\n [Bushrod] Washington had to break up\n his court because of ill-health.","Has received his letter by Mr. [?]\n Doddridge; apologizes for any inconvenience\n which may be caused by the disposal of the\n letters of recommendation which the\n recipient sent by Mr. [?] Rowan and Colonel\n [?] Johnson.","Discusses legal principles involved in\n the Fairfax lands case.","Including TCy of ALS. 4 pages.","Has seen in the papers discussions between\n his brother Johnson [?] and him [Timothy\n Pickering] respecting Count Pulaske [Pulaski]\n and the Battle of Germantown; \"with the\n exception of Judge [?] Peters, yourself, \u0026 \n Mr. [?]\n Wolcot[t] I can scarcely find any person\n who was conspicuous on the great theatre of our\n country when I first began to mix in public\n affairs;\" asks if he will travel south to\n Washington; discusses George Washington and his\n firmness of character.","Encloses a check on the bank of Winchester\n for $600 to be endorsed to Mr. [?] Smith; was\n surprised that the sale of the land was $200\n less than he thought; Alexander Marshall\n informed him [John Marshall] that he settled\n $200 which he owed him with Mr. Smith; finished\n cutting his wheat and rye last week; his corn\n has suffered from the cold wet spring and now\n from drought; discusses weather and crop\n pests.","Including Pst of ALS. 3 pages.","Discusses the science of agriculture and\n whether or not it should be taught at a\n university.","Has read the review which will be published\n in the forthcoming January 1828 edition of the \n North American\n Review of his [John Marshall's] \n History of the\n Colonies ; encloses a copy of it; hopes\n to meet him in January and introduce Mrs. Story\n to him.","Has received his flattering letter and\n biography of him and warmly expresses his\n gratitude; accommodations for Mrs. Story may be\n had at Mr. [?] Rapine's in Washington;\n discusses the present contest for the\n Presidency; fears that \"our constitution is not\n to be so long lived as its real friends have\n hoped.\"","Thanks him for a copy of his speech on\n \"retrenchment and reform;\" intended to call\n on him, but the pressure of official duties\n and the indolence of age have prevented\n it.","Including TCy of ALS. 2 pages.","Must decline his invitation to be his\n companion on the \n \n Potomac because of his ill health;\n Mr. [?] Sheppherd has given a good account\n of \"our Jacobin Banker's Clerk\" [?];\n discusses Sheppherd's and the clerk's\n lives.","Begs him to accept his portrait painted\n by \n Mr.\n [Chester] Harding in Washington as a\n token of his sincere and affectionate\n friendship; will not send it to Richmond\n until \n Mr.\n [Horatio] Greenough casts his bust;\n enjoyed a pleasant trip from Washington to\n Richmond where he has seen none but his\n family since his return; the spirit of party\n is extremely bitter, but he plans to leave\n for the upper country; had one of his\n [Joseph Story's] fish yesterday; received\n news from Mr. [?] McGruder of the loss of\n his [John Marshall's] sortout.","Takes the liberty to write him; regrets\n that it was necessary for him [John\n Marshall] to announce publicly his feelings\n on the election, because it will not subject\n him to the abuse of the partisans.","Did not have a chance to answer \n Mr.\n [Chester] Harding's letter asking what\n should be done with his [John Marshall's]\n portrait; if he [Chester Harding] is in\n Boston, have him deliver it to you [Joseph\n Story]; asks him [Joseph Story] to take care\n of it till he [John Marshall] can have it\n and his bust sent to Richmond; discusses how\n the \n \n Marylander misquoted him on the\n coming election; an epidemic has prevailed\n extensively in Richmond.","Has received his letter and is grateful\n for his kind words; although the still burnt\n Kentucky Whiskey is nauseous to my palate,\n \"I can yet enjoy the aroma of an exquisite\n glass of Madeira, or Paxasete, or Burgundy\n and I doubt whether my head would have been\n more affected by a bottle of Clos Von gedt,\n capped with another of such [silvery?]\n Champagne, than by your truly kind\n note.\"","Discusses the recipient's proposed\n amendment to a bill before the House of\n Representatives concerning the U.S. Circuit\n Court System.","Letter declining their honor of joining\n the Richmond and Manchester Sabbath School\n in a 4th of July procession, not because he\n does not believe in the principles inspiring\n it, but because he must leave town due to\n Mrs. Marshall's feeble health; (the letter\n was probably written and signed by a\n secretary).","Cannot satisfy his request to send him\n letters with autographs of the Virginian\n signers of the Declaration of Independence\n as they have not been preserved or contain\n private communications; has read and enjoyed\n the sermons he sent; discusses the nature of\n church and state in post-Revolutionary\n Virginia; gratified by his [William B.\n Sprague's] sermon on intemperance and gives\n his [John Marshall's] views on the\n subject.","Discusses a land case concerning Mrs. [?]\n Clarke and Mr. [?] Swan, and Mr. [?]\n Pollard; have no further communications with\n Swan as \"he has no idea of...frank dealing\";\n Mr. [?] Fiske wrote that he can lend money\n for Mrs. [?] Carrington; please send down\n his [John Marshall's] ponies with Charles\n Smith or Mr. [?] Colston.","Has just received Mr. [?] Triplett's\n letter and is willing to allow him 20%\n commission on the money he may collect from\n the estate of Mr. [?] Davies [?]; discusses\n arrangements for drawing money on his [John\n Marshall's] account; asks him to pay costs\n incurred in the execution of the above\n matter; discusses election of \n General\n [Andrew] Jackson .","Makes arrangements to pay [ ] $1000 to\n Swan for a land purchase.","Has received his letter concerning news\n of the birth of \n \n Margaret's [(Lewis)\n Marshall]'s nephew; mentions health of\n his family, including the children's\n whooping cough; prices in the Alex[andri]a\n flour market and how the dry weather is\n affecting crops; writes of his own\n agricultural efforts, including the\n operation of a large roller for his corn\n fields; has been unable to send down the\n horses; will attend a sale at Westover on\n Mr. [?] Lewis's request; Mr. Lewis, Mr. [?]\n Coiston, and \n Mr.\n Cha[rle]s B. Smith are not able to\n take the horses to him [John Marshall] or to\n Aunt [?] Carrington.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","Has finished reading his centennial\n discourse on the first settlement of Salem;\n was touched by his portrayal of the story of\n the Indians; especially enjoyed the passages\n respecting the Lady Arabella Johnson; read\n with interest his sketch of the recently\n deceased \n [Robert]\n Trimble , brother Supreme Court\n Justice; congratulates him on the\n appointment of \n [Joseph]\n Hopkinson [to the Eastern District of\n Pennsylvania District Court Judgeship].","The case will not be finished till\n Saturday and he [John Marshall] will not be\n home till Tuesday; had a pleasant sail down\n the river to Norfolk; boards in a very\n agreeable house.","Including Pst of ALS. 1 page.","Requests him to purchase two more copies\n of \n [Joseph]\n Story's three volume [ \n Public and General\n Statutes passed by the Congress of the\n United States, 1789-1827 ] for the\n Supreme Court.","The sick [Supreme Court] judges have\n arrived; he continues his morning walks;\n they dined with the President and \n Mrs.\n [John Quincy] Adams on Friday;\n discusses their feelings on \n [Andrew]\n Jackson's election; Jackson is\n expected in the city in a fortnight;\n mentions Mrs. Jackson's death; discusses his\n [John Marshall's] dinner invitations; tell\n Mr. [?] Call [Cole?] the secretaries are\n sick, and \n [Henry]\n Clay caught a cold by attending the\n colonization society; discusses the upcoming\n inauguration.","Including Pst of ALS. 2 pages. Also\n including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","Encloses a letter to be sent to Mr. [?]\n Payne; imagines that Oby has carried out the\n clover seed from the cellar; received news\n from his son \n James\n [Keith Marshall] that she was not\n well; has written to his son in a feeble\n attempt to console him [Thomas Marshall on\n the death of his wife Margaret]; receive\n news from \n Jaquelin\n [Marshall] of his new son, Jaquelin\n Jr.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page. Including\n Pst of ALS. 2 pages.","Has had no news of her and is worried;\n discusses her delicate health; received news\n from his son \n \n Edward [Carrington Marshall] who\n grieves for his brother's [Thomas's] loss;\n received a serious and very religious letter\n from Thomas, who is much occupied with his\n children and superintends his son John's\n education.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","Answers his letter of 21 February; is\n pleased that he has turned to religion and\n reason in handling his grief in losing his\n wife; is glad that he has kept John at hand\n [instead of sending him to Princeton]; an\n epidemic has hit the University [of\n Virginia] at Charlottesville, and a son of\n General [?] Jones is dying of the fever;\n this city [Washington] is full of\n office-sickness; discusses the spoils\n system.","Has received his letter enclosing a copy\n of \n Judge\n [Joseph] Hopkinson's commission; will\n attend Virginia's constitutional convention\n as a delegate; explains his feelings\n regarding his election to the convention and\n to its being convened.","Has received his letter accompanying his\n anniversary address to the Suffolk bar and \n Mr. [John]\n Brazer's discourse at the interment of\n Dr.\n [Edward] Holyoke ; advises him against\n precipitous fulfillment of the publication\n requirements for his Dane Professorship [at\n Harvard]; his attention has been turned to\n the two great cases before the Supreme\n Court; place your thoughts of them on paper;\n Mr. [Smith]\n Thompson will look into the New York\n case; discusses the matters which will come\n before the Virginia constitutional,\n convention: property qualifications, senate\n apportioning, basis of representation,\n freehold suffrage.","After much hesitation, he must complain\n to him about his barking dog which has\n distressed his [John Marshall's] wife who is\n in very poor health; is extremely apologetic\n over causing any inconvenience.","Including Pst of ALS. 1 page.\n (Incomplete).","Has read his discourses pronounced as\n Dane Professor of Law at Harvard; is\n impressed with his teaching efforts: \"Our\n southern youths would stumble at the\n threshhold [of your most appalling course]..\n .You yankees have more perseverence\"; no\n hopes that he lives to read his lectures;\n still regrets being a member of Virginia's\n constitutional convention.","Will be unable to accept his invitation\n as he is leaving town on Saturday and will\n be busy until then.","Accepts his election as \n [Bushrod]\n Washington's successor' in some\n honorary position [President of the American\n Colonization Society?].","Has finished reading his 1809 Fourth of\n July oration and his December 1828 speech\n \"on the constitutionality of the Tariff and\n the true nature of state government;\" his\n speech in the Senate was well-argued: \"Is it\n possible that South Carolina can withstand\n so powerful an appeal to... her patriotism..\n .and her real interest?\"; is flattered by\n the notice he took of the author of the Life\n of Washington [John Marshall] in his\n notes.","Writes of his son \n Edward [C.\n Marshall] who is a proud new father;\n dined with the President [Andrew Jackson]\n and his [Andrew Jackson's] niece \n \n Mrs. [Andrew Jackson] [Emily]\n Donelson ; saw Tom Francis a week ago;\n Judges\n [William] Johnson and \n [John]\n McLean do not board with the other\n judges; \n Judge\n [Smith] Thompson is sick; complains\n about not receiving his rent from his\n tenants Mr. [?] Sprigg on the Potomac and\n another at Anderson's Bottoms.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","Discusses the dinner parties which he and\n his brother Justices have attended; the\n Secretary of State [Martin van Buren] gave\n one for the new bride of the President's\n [Andrew Jackson's] nephew [?]; he dined\n yesterday with the British Minister; the\n influenza is as prevalent as it was in\n Richmond; \n Judge\n [Gabriel] Duval left town because of a\n relapse of his son; \n James\n [Kieth Marshall, his son] wrote three\n days past about his brother \n \n Edward [Carrington Marshall] ;\n mentions Washington's Birthday Celebrations\n effect on her.","Including Pst of ALS. 3 pages. Including\n TCy of ALS. 2 pages.","Heard from his granddaughter that she\n [Mary Willis Ambler Marshall] became\n indisposed upon her return from\n Chickahominy; has received a letter from his\n son James who sold his horse for $l000[?]; \n Mr. [Joseph]\n Story , who has been laid up for a\n week under the doctor's hand has returned to\n court.","Including Pst of ALS. 2 pages.","Discusses his morning routine; dined\n yesterday with Mr. [?] Swann; \n Mr. [Joseph]\n Story is still not well enough to go\n out; talked about his nephew William [?]\n with Mr. [?] Mercer; Tom Francis took a\n stage for Kentucky; saw Mr. [?] Coleman,\n husband of his niece Lucy [?], who is a\n strong Jackson man; his [John Marshall's]\n nephew \n Tom\n [Marshall] son of \n Humphry\n [Marshall] is a strong Clay man, and\n will oppose Mr. Coleman in the next\n Congressional election; party plays havoc\n with the Kentucky part of his [John\n Marshall's] family.","Encloses papers which \n Mr.\n [Francis Scott] Key could not present\n to the Court in person.","Sends his respects to the Chief Justice;\n makes arrangements to see him.","Discusses arrangements to have his\n father's [Thomas Marshall] will proved in\n the Virginia General Court so they can rule\n on his [Revolutionary War?] claim for half\n pay.","Including Pst. of ALS. 2 pages.","Discusses land transactions with Capt.\n Slaughter and Major Thompsons; mentions Mr.\n [?] John Lewis's sale of his slaves to pay\n off Warner Lewis's debts; discusses their\n financial difficulties with Mr. [?] Nicholas\n and Mr. [?] Smith; encloses a promissory\n note of Edward C. and Mary Nelson Marshall\n on the Farmers Bank of Virginia for\n $5000.","Discusses his [James Hillhouse] 1808\n proposal of electing the president by\n drawing straws among Senators; he [John\n Marshall] was opposed to it in the past, but\n has seen too much strife and bitterness in\n party politics.","Including TCy of ALS. 2 pages.","Thanks him for sending a sermon on the\n late Massachusetts Chief Justice [Isaac\n Parker] and his [Joseph Story's] own sketch\n of Parker's Character; thanks him also for a\n box of fish; is sorry that brother \n Justice\n [John] McLean could not acquiesce in\n the \n [Craig V.] Missouri\n case ; is-chagrined that so many\n cases, including Soulard, Smith and Cathcart\n and Robertson, were left incomplete at their\n last setting; discusses \n Mr. [James]\n Madison's letter to the editor of the \n North American\n Review .","Letter of reference for Capt. [?] Baylis\n who served with him during the\n Revolution.","Heard from \n Colo.[nel] [?]\n Lambert that she was in her usual\n health; discusses the latest snowfall; dined\n with the minister of France and his wife,\n neither of whom could speak English; dined\n with Secretary of State Martin van Buren\n yesterday; saw Mr. [?] Robinson yesterday\n who gave news of his [John Marshall's]\n sister \n [Elizabeth]\n Colston and her family.","Including Pst of ALS. 2 pages.","Enjoyed calling on Mrs. [?] Sedgwick\n author of \n Hope\n Leslie today; the snow and ice has\n interrupted regular mail delivery from\n Richmond; they have lost their Marshal [?]\n Ringold, whose being ousted from office will\n distress his family.","On verso, \n J[ohn]\n Marshall to [Edward Carrington\n Marshall]. Asks him to find a valuable 1776\n English pamphlet on the Declaration of\n Independence which Mr. [?] Storrs lent him\n [John Marshall] and which he misplaced.","Sent him a barrel of hams on the schooner\n King to be\n deposited with Fisher and Pewer of Boston;\n asks him what the \"wise men in the East\"\n think of the Cabinet upheaval; discusses\n arrangements for new quarters in Washington\n as the Justices will no longer be lodging\n with Mr. [?] Brown; discusses the copy of\n Algernon Sianey [\"Letters.. .in Defence of\n Civil Liberty and against the Encroachments\n of Military Despotism\"?] which he [John\n Marshall] sent him [Joseph Story] earlier;\n discusses possibility of war and the reform\n in Great Britain; will set out on his\n circuit at the end of the week.","Arrived yesterday; thanks her for the\n cushion she made him to ease his journey;\n discusses the visit of a niece.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","Received his letter and hams; regrets\n that the Court is moving out of Mr. brown's;\n would like to lodge with him [John Marshall]\n and Judge Thompson; discusses the break-up\n of the cabinet, which was a surprise to him;\n thanks him for the Algernon Sidney pamphlet;\n informs him of the death of his [Joseph\n Story's] 10 year old daughter.","Received his letters of May 25 and 31 and\n adopted his opinions respecting admiralty\n jurisdiction; discusses arrangements for\n lodgings in Washington next winter and\n explains why he cannot do anything till he\n hears from \n Judge\n [Henry] Baldwin ; sympathizes with him\n over the loss of his child; tells of his\n similar experiences; he also wrote a poem in\n the occasion of his child's death, which he\n would have enclosed, but it was lost.","Thanks him for his letter of 9 September;\n has conversed with \n Judge\n [Joseph] Story about the Declaration\n of Independence; discusses his [John Quincy\n Adams] ideas about it and the constitutional\n principles of state sovereignty, secession,\n and nullification.","Discusses his medical examination by \n \n Doctor [Philip Syng] Physick ; will\n probably not see her again till he rides the\n circuit court 22 November; the gentlemen of\n the city, especially those of the bar, are\n painfully solicitous to show their respect;\n Nr.[?] Peters and Dr. [?] Gillespie press\n him to stay with them; gives directions for\n his crops to be tended to.","Including Pst of ALS. 2 pages.","The rains of the last several days have\n prevented \n Dr.\n [Philip Syng] Physick from operating;\n discusses preparations for his medical\n treatment; missed Cary Ambler's visit\n because he was sitting for a portrait;\n Edward Ambler is in town; received a letter\n from brother \n [Joseph]\n Story ; mentions his diet.","Including Pst of ALS. 2 pages.","Discusses his medical treatment and \n \n Doctor [Philip Syng] Physick ; \n \n Brother [Justice Henry] Baldwin is\n here; discusses the arrangements for the\n Justices' lodgings in Washington, either at\n Mrs. [?] Peyton's or Mr. [?] Peters';\n explains why he did not think he would serve\n on the court at its next session; discusses\n his health and ailments of the past\n summer.","Mr. [?] Giles will give news of his\n health; describes his ailment (\"stones in\n the bladder\") and the Doctor's examination;\n his operation by \n \n Doctor [Philip Syng] Physick has been\n delayed because of the weather; describes\n the Doctor and his [John Marshall's]\n accommodations; tell Major [?] Ambler that\n his brothers Edward and Cary are in\n town.","Heard of and congratulates him on\n successful operation; regards his health as\n \"a matter of the highest national\n concernment...\"","On verso, [John Marshall, to Edward\n Everett], incomplete. Is flattered by his\n kina token; describes his tedious operation;\n thanks him for his letter.","Learned from Mr. [?] Peters that he was\n seriously indisposed; intends to leave for\n Richmond next week; discusses difficulties\n in their living arrangements; they will\n probably quarter with [?] Ringold; \n Mr.\n [William] Johnson will live by\n himself, and \n [John]\n McLean will preserve his former\n position; \n Brother\n [Henry] Baldwin presides over the\n circuit court in session now in\n Philadelphia; describes his [John\n Marshall's] operation and medicine.","Discusses the latest legal difficulties\n involving the Fairfax lands; his wife [Mary\n Willis (Ambler) Marshall] lies at death's\n door.","Including TCy of ALS. 3 pages.","Discusses a pamphlet to which he [Henry\n Lee] alluded in his letter; mentions \n [Thomas]\n Jefferson's \"unjustifiable aspersions\"\n on his [John Marshall's] conduct and\n principles; writes of his own and \n [George]\n Logon's experiences with the\n Revolutionary government of France; mentions\n the journal he kept in Paris.","Certificate of the Clerk of the Circuit\n Court of Fauquier County dated 16 March\n 1961.","Makes arrangements for the sale of \n \n Edward's [Carrington Marshall's] bank\n shares; her brother Tom [Thomas Marshall]\n tears that he will not win his election\n because he raises the clerk's fees.","He was gratified by his complimentary\n comments on the speech he [Richard Henry\n Wilde] sent him [John Marshall]; sends him\n Mr. [?] Ingham's report on the relative\n value of gold and silver and Mr. [?] White's\n reports on coins; mentions Mr. [?] Jacob's\n work on the subject.","Thanks him for sending him the first\n volume of the \n American Library of\n Useful Knowledge ; the Librarian of\n Congress has asked him [John Marshall] to\n help spend $5000 on law books for the\n library, and he [John Marshall] asks him\n [Joseph Story] to suggest titles; discusses \n [Charles]\n Mercer and the Bank Question and\n internal improvements in Virginia; the party\n guide \n The\n Enquirer is unable to make \n Mr. [John]\n Barbour \"pull in the traces;\"\n discusses national politics and the threat\n of nullification; comments upon the Cholera\n epidemics in the seaports of New York and\n Boston.","Has received and read his essay \n A Congress of\n Nations for the Amicable Adjustments of\n National Differences; Feels that its\n argument is well arranged and supported by\n applicable biblical quotations, but is also\n impracticable.","Is having difficulties selling his stock\n for him; there is a severe outbreak of\n cholera in Richmond; discusses the disease;\n is relieved to hear that he is restored to\n health and that John Harvie is getting\n better; discusses the disabling of his\n horse.","Thanks him for his help in selecting\n titles for the congressional law library;\n discusses his choice of books; is gratified\n that his course on constitutional law [at\n Harvard] nears completion; shares his gloomy\n prospects of the country; \"The case of the\n south seems to me to be desperate.. .The\n union has been prolonged thus far by\n miracles. I fear they cannot continue.\"","Discusses how he sold his [James Keith\n Marshall's] and \n \n Edward's [Carrington\n Marshall's] stock; hopes his\n merchandising speculation will be\n successful; congratulates him on the birth\n of his daughter; has just returned from Mr.\n White's son's funeral, who died of cholera;\n discusses the disease.","Thanks him for the dedication of his new\n book; congratulates him upon its completion;\n the [Virginia] legislature is in session;\n discusses Andrew Jackson's response to\n nullification and his party's reaction to\n it; writes of Virginia's relationship to\n South Carolina and the possibility of their\n joining in a southern confederacy; thanks\n him for a copy of \n Mr.\n [Daniel] Webster's speech; mentions \n \n Brother Justice [Henry]\n Baldwin's sickness.","Encloses a power of attorney authorizing him\n to draw what is coming to him [Thomas A.\n Marshall] on account of grandfather's [Col.\n Thomas Marshall] halt pay; discusses Congress\n and the Nullification crisis; mentions \n Judge [Henry]\n Baldwin's misfortune and that \n Judge\n [Smith] Thompson is in town.","Including ADS. 2 pages. 3 January 1833.\n Power of attorney granting John Marshall the\n right to draw the money due Thomas A. Marshall\n as heir to Colonel Thomas Marshall,\n Revolutionary War veteran entitled to the half\n pay pension; signed by Justice of the Peace\n D.A. Hall.","Returns his portfolio of drawings of\n Washington and pictures of Revolutionary\n Boston; recalls traveling to Richmond with him\n once.","Informs him that his son was accepted to\n West Point; does not think the Tariff bill or\n the bill concerning South Carolina's\n legislature will pass Congress.","Received his letter of 27 April; discusses \n Mr. [Edmund]\n Pendleton ; mentions a copy of a letter\n from Mr. Carr in the possession of Col. John\n Nichols; Augustine Davis may have published it;\n his [Charles Carter's] brother has written to\n Mr. [?] Sujt in regards to it; discusses \n Mr. [Edmund]\n Pendleton , \n [Thomas]\n Jefferson , and the XYZ dispatch.","Discusses Lt. Randolph's case, Mr. Watkin's\n case, the power of arrest, and the Judiciary\n Act; rejoices at the abridgement of his \n Commentaries for\n the public; discusses its place in colleges and\n universities.","Discusses the national fervor in France\n based upon the martial glory of Napoleon and\n demonstrated by the statue at the top of the\n column of Austerlitz in the \n Place de\n Vendome ; compares Napoleon's popularity\n with the people to that of George Washington's,\n Hannibal's, and Ceasar's; all were \"victims of\n the infernal machine\" [party politics];\n discusses national politics and \n [Martin] Van\n Buren .","Discusses the addition \n James [K.\n Marshall] is making to the house at Leeds\n for his father [John Marshall]; mentions \n Jaquelin's\n [Marshall] experiences of housing slaves\n in basements at Prospect Hill; mentions the\n weather and growth of crops and the health of\n his [Thomas Marshall's] daughter Mary; \n \n Aunt [Elizabeth (Marshall)] Colston is in\n poor health and will probably not visit\n Richmond this Winter; his [Thomas Marshall's]\n son John's plans have changed and he has bought\n Mr. [?] Smith's tract of land; tell Mr. [?]\n Tiffin that the girls have never received the\n box of articles he sent to Mr. [?] Cawood by\n steamboat.","Including TCy of ALS. 2 pages.","Has just received a letter from Mr. [?]\n Ringold who has moved from Washington and can\n not accommodate them next winter; \"the\n political world.., is surely moved \n topsy turvy ;\"\n mentions southern states insistence on state\n sovereignty; asks him about \n \n Brother [Justice John?] McClain\n [McLean's?] opinion in Tennessee.","Discusses the 1793 contract signed with\n Denny Fairfax for the Manor of Leeds and the\n South Branch Manor; suggests strategies to\n prove their legal title to the land.","Discusses the purchase of land and the\n legalities it would entail; mentions the\n possibility of mortgaging the Mont Blanc estate\n for a loan.","His present, a copy of his \n Commentaries [on\n the Constitution] and Allison's Sermons, has\n arrived on the \n Lucy and\n Abigail ; has sent him copies of his\n [John Marshall's] \n Life of\n Washington to be delivered to \n [Daniel]\n Webster , \n [John Quincy]\n Adams ; the Massachusetts Historical\n Society, the Boston Athanaeum (which\n complimented him by having his portrait painted\n for their gallery), and Mrs. [?] Ledyard;\n discusses publication of his [Joseph Story's] \n Commentaries ,\n which will not be popular in the South;\n discusses \n [Henry]\n Clay's Tariff bill.","Discusses sale of his [James K. Marshall's]\n land; inform \n Edward\n [Carrington Marshall] that he [John\n Marshall] is pleased with the terms on which he\n has not rented Mont Blanc; will not leave for\n the country till July when he will visit\n [Fauquier White Sulphur] Springs; the May wheat\n has been injured by frost.","Questions him about the defeat of \n [John]\n Hardin at the battle of the St. Joseph\n reported in his [John Marshall's] \n Life of\n Washington ; asks him to check with \n Mr. [Jared]\n Sparks if it was really fought on Paint\n Creek; discusses the elections of the Virginia\n legislature; mentions Martin van Buren.","Describes how George Washington convinced\n him to run for Congress in 1798.","Would have written upon his return from\n Washington, but was seriously injured in the\n stage; cannot find and send him a letter in\n George Washington's hand as requested; does\n enclose a military appointment of 1799 with\n Washington's signature.","Hopes his injury will not be permanent;\n fears the loss to the nation if he resigns; has\n \"cleared the decks for the great legal\n conflict.\"","Discusses arrangements regarding the\n acquisition of Mrs. [?] Kennon's [?]\n negroes.","Discusses Mr. [?] Warden's and Mr.\n Washington's and Brooke's suits which he\n [Charles Lee] agreed to look into for him [John\n Marshall].","A friend from the West has pointed out an\n error in his [John Marshall's] manuscript which\n he would like to correct as follows: \"v.2 p.207\n 1.27 at \"Chilicothe\".. .\"not Chilicothe on the\n Scioto in Ohio, but ... an old Indian village\n then standing about seventy-five miles rather\n East of North from Cincinnati...","Has had some difficulty weighing and selling\n his Parkinson breed of hogs because they were\n too large and their meat is not sweet enough;\n discusses purchases made for him, Mary, Fanny\n Burwell, and Maria Willis according to his\n directions; is surprised at the magnitude of\n his [Thomas Marshall's] debts; lectures on\n paying them off.","Informs him that his rent for the Campbell\n [?] land belonging to his [John Marshall's]\n father's estate is due.","Accepts the President's invitation to dinner\n next Thursday at four.","Discusses the last letter which he [John\n Randolph Roanoke] sent to him [John\n Marshall].","[Both are sisters of John Marshall's wife, Mary\n Willis (Ambler) Marshall.]. Discusses her and her\n husband's, [Colonel Edward Carrington], visit with\n the Washington family at Mount Vernon and the\n impending delivery of Mrs. L. Custis Lewis's first\n child; describes their visit to the new national\n capitol on the Potomac; writes of their return to\n Mount Vernon and of their diversions there, which\n include hunting deer and taking care of the new\n baby, or \"the pretty little stranger\"; describes a\n chambermaid and other servants; comments upon\n domestic fashions and describes the furnishings of\n the mansion, which concludes with a description of\n the estate with its greenhouse and gardens, and of\n their host's [George Washington] treatment of his\n many visitors.","Including TCy of ALS. 6 pages.","[Mary Willis (Ambler) Marshall, Richmond,\n Virginia]. Hopes that she will send for her in\n April, although her Aunt [Elizabeth (Marshall)\n Colston] says that it is unlikely; Uncle [Rawleigh\n Colston] is upset at all the letters she is\n sending, and refuses to pay postage on them;\n wanted to buy muslin in Martinsburg to make her a\n handkerchief and a cap for sister [?]; discusses\n her French lessons with her tutor, Mr. LeRoy, and\n incidents of his exasperation with Tom [Thomas M.\n Colston], Tom \n [Thomas]\n Marshall [a cousin], and Rawleigh [a cousin,\n Raleigh T. Colston], Cousin \n Edward\n [Colston] cruelly takes delight in telling\n her that she will not be able to go home until\n fall, and \"Uncle says he does not think you love\n me enough to ... send for me...\"","Including TCy of ALS. 2 pages.","Has already conveyed his [James Markham\n Marshall's] undiscarded half of land at the forks\n of the Licking [Fauquier County?]; no longer has\n an interest in it, but will convey the novelty to\n him [Martin P. Marshall] at any time; \"lament[s]\n extremely the misunderstanding between yourself\n and Tom...\"; Lucy Marshall is in Fauquier\n [County].","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","Was lucky he came down on Tuesday, For he found\n his daughter, Nancy, ill, which has caused them to\n postpone their return to Weyanoke, [Virginia]; has\n cone a little transferring for Father; has been\n playing chess with Mr. [?] James? Taylor of\n Norfolk; instructs Agnes [his daughter] to attend\n to her studies in Richmond; hopes her [Mary Willis\n (Ambler) Marshall] trip to Chickahominy did not\n fatigue her.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","Mentions changes made in the college government\n at Harvard College; complains of college life -\n \"probably no life is so uninteresting to others as\n that of a merely literary man. An indolent\n collegian especially has nothing to say for\n himself...\"; mentions his classes: Electricity,\n Astronomy, and Moral Philosophy; describes his\n \"chums,\" [?] Turner, [?J Bonaparte, a nephew of\n the Emperor, [?] Cheves, son of Langdon Cheves,\n [?] Bruce, of Halifax County, and his cousin [?]\n Birchett; discusses dining arrangements at\n Harvard: \"We have a large table, confined to\n southerners, and what are called gentlemen\n Yankees\"; looks forward with great anxiety to\n graduating in ten months.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","Most of her bank stock is to be distributed to\n her children and their children, although she\n leaves five bank shares for her \"faithful friend\n and house keeper Mrs. Francis Martyr\" and her\n daughter Anne and ten dollars a year in perpetuity\n to the school for orphan children established by\n the Ladies of Richmond.","Including TCy of AD. 1 page.","Discusses the publication of the last Census\n and its effects on Congressional apportionment;\n discusses railroads and canals; writes of\n abolition in Loudoun and Fauquier Counties,\n [Virginia].","Informs her of her brother [Thomas Marshall's]\n accident in Baltimore and of his impending death;\n Father [John Marshall] has rallied from his severe\n cold, but does not continue to improve; he has\n taken cold again, is feeble, and has no appetite;\n he apprehends the worst.","Describes the weather; Mrs. [?] Mayo has the\n gout; Mary Archer and family are well; Margaret\n and Agnes Douthat are with her; Robert Pickett\n said nothing about paying back the loan; discusses\n his daughters' lessons under Mr. [?] Daley; gives\n directions for the farm; writes of \n General\n [Jaquelin] Harvie ; discusses arrangements\n for her Christmas trip and for her slaves; asks\n about his daughters Claudia and Maria Willis.","Including TCy of ALS. 2 pages. Including Pst of\n ALS. 2 pages.","Writes a favorable recommendation for Dr. J. W.\n Leach who has resided in Fauquier County a few\n years and practiced medicine \"with success and\n usefulness,\" but who desires to move to the city\n to \"improve his fortunes and educate his\n children.\"","Including ANS from \n D[aniel]\n W[ebster] , n.p., n.d. to Mr. Bell, n.p.,\n recommending A.J. Marshall \"son [nephew] of the\n late \n Ch[ief]\n Jus[tice] \u0026 a very reputable man.\"","Handwritten copy [by Alice Colston?]; tells him\n to draw on his [Edward Colston's] money at the\n Valley Bank. of Winchester and send $10 to Raleigh\n Edward at Lexington and the rest to \n W[illiam]\n Leigh .","Including Cy of ADS, (in same hand); 12 October\n 1840, Elizabeth Colston's will; bequeaths her\n slaves and other worldly possessions to her\n children and grandchildren. 4 pages.","Includes an engraving of a spread-eagled\n American bald eagle bearing a lyre with the motto\n \"Nunc Sidera Ducit\" surrounded by thirteen stars;\n also bears the seal of the Department of State;\n the passport stamps show that Harvie visited\n France, Belgium, Austria, Switzerland, Holland ,\n Italy, Spain, Algeria, Rome, Naples, and Germany\n from May 1858 to March 1859.","Describes railroad travel in Virginia;\n discusses his visit in Richmond; mentions Col. [?]\n Mason's and \n G[overn]or\n [John B.] Floyd's efforts at arousing\n sentiment for immediate secession; mentions prices\n of railroad tickets.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page. Including Pst of\n ALS. 2 pages.","Including PDS. 1 page. Acceptance and oath of\n Frank G. Rutfin signed in Richmond before James\n Ellett, Notary Public, on 19 August 1861.","Thanks her for writing to him in Miss [?]\n Harvie's behalf and for granting him an extension;\n the publishers will finish the reproducing within\n three weeks at which time he will return the\n miniture [sic] to her aunt; distressed to hear of\n Anne Harvie's death.","Including Pst of ALS. 1 page. Incomplete.","Including Pst of ADS. 2 pages. 30 November\n 1771. Another indenture signed by Fairfax leasing\n land in the Manor of Leeds to William Seth.","Does not view the consequences of their success\n in the election [of 1800] in as favorable a light\n as he [John Page] does; speculates on what would\n have been the result of the election had there\n been no contest between the \"two Gentlemen who\n stood highest\" [Jefferson and Burr], and if \n [Charles\n Cotesworter] Pin[c]key or \n [John] Adams had\n opposed Jefferson; speculates on the \"presumption\"\n of the Federalist view that should \"no election...\n take place, Mr. Adams is, under the Constitution,\n to continue in office until a successor be\n appointed; \n that is until the next\n election of course \"; says appointments of\n John Marshall as Chief Justice, seventeen new\n judges, and [?] Bayard \"the most unacceptable man\n that could be sent to the French republic,\"\n nominated as minister plenipotentiary -- all\n extend the influence of the Federalists and throw\n an obstacle in the way of Jefferson's\n administration; adds a few lines typical of what\n he sees as Federalist sentiment; and writes of\n their friendship.","Since he [John Randolph] is not long for this\n world, is anxious to settle his affairs; \"should\n you decide upon a settlement south of \n \n Philad[elphi]a (which God forbid) I am\n desirous that you should fix yourself as soon as\n possible on the plantation below the mouth of\n little Roanoke...[Bizarre Plantation?];\" his [John\n Randolph's] infirmity has prevented him from\n giving the estate the requisite attention, and it\n is much encumbered with debt; discusses his\n failing health: \"there is something radically a\n miss in the system. The machine cannot last much\n longer.\"","Thanks him for compliance with his request\n \"thru our mutual friend Mr. John Marshall\"; will\n write soon; sends paper for Capt. Brown.","Comments on events in Washington which instill\n \"deep regret and surprize\"; mentions the election\n in Kentucky; says the antimasonic excitement will\n likely be \"troublesome\" but he will not get\n involved in it; has not heard from Mr. [?] Hammond\n for a long time but does not distrust him but\n disagrees over the issue of the representation of\n Ohio in the Baltimore Convention; glad to hear of\n his [James F. Conover] professional prospects.","Discusses the case of [?] Randolph being heard\n by \n \n U.S. District Court Judge [Philip P.]\n Barbour .","Chief\n Justice [John] Marshall died in Philadelphia\n last Monday, perfectly in his senses to the last;\n the news reached here only this morning, and his\n remains at 4 p.m.; describes the funeral\n procession.","Encloses the diploma of the historical\n Institute of France which just elected John\n Marshall a member on his [Henry Lee's]\n recommendation; describes Marshall's election to\n that society.","Is happy about her recovery; quotes\n Shakespeare; describes his own health; writes of\n his political campaigning in King and Queen, King\n William, and Hanover counties, [Virginia];\n describes her old neighborhood and farm, now\n occupied by Fleetwood Academy; discusses George\n Haskins situation, mentioning his lack of slaves;\n gossips about affairs in King and Queen County;\n discusses the unusual weather; tells an Irish\n joke; discusses \n [Henry]\n Clay's tariff.","One was a wax portrait in basso-relievo donated by\n Horace Edwin Hayden to the Virginia Historical\n Society in 1881; another was the bronze monument by\n W.W. Story which stands on the terrace of the U. S.\n Capitol; the members of the Marshall family who\n attended the dedication of this statue are listed in\n a third article.","Poem written on the request of a lady to inscribe\n his name in her autograph book.","Including TCy of AL. 1 page.","Poem honors the splendid singing voice of Miss\n Eliza Lambert, the sister of Richmond's Mayor William\n Lambert.","Including TCy of AL. 1 page.","Lines on the occasion of\n the raising of the bronze statue of Chief Justice\n Marshall, at Richmond in 1869(?) - while Brig. Gen'l\n Terry was in command of 'District No. 1' -\n which included the state of Virginia.","Discusses tr. Physick's operation on John\n Marshall.","Lists his pall-bearers: Henry St. George Tucker,\n John B. Clapton, \n Benj[amin] W [?]\n Leigh , \n Tho[ma]s\n Rutherford , \n Cha[rle]s\n Copland , \n Rob[er]t\n Popllard , Chapman Johnson, Robert Stanard, [?]\n Scott, and [?] D. Wren[?]; also lists the Marshalls: \n Col. Geo[rge]\n M. Carrington , \n [?] General\n [William] Lambert , General [?] Peyton, and\n Col. Armistead.","Mentions the results of an autopsy on Marshall's\n body after his death in 1835.","Published by the Reformed Church Publication Board\n in Philadelphia. The Centennial Address delivered\n before the Franklin and Marshall College of\n Lancaster, Pennsylvania on 14 June 1887.","Subsequently published by McGraw-Hill in a 1960\n book, \n Fountain of\n Freedom .","The smaller one was copied from French painter\n Levret Saint Memin's 1801 crayon portrait of\n Marshall. The larger lithograph was copied from\n Chester Harding's 1830 painting.","Including a copy of and etching of John Marshall's\n house in Richmond.","The original of the one of Marshall facing right\n was made in Richmond about 1825 by a French artist.\n It was hung at Oak Hill, was inherited by his eldest\n son Thomas Marshall, and is privately owned.","Each was copied from the 1801 portrait of Marshall\n painted by Saint Memin. The large matted one was\n engraved by J. H. E. Whitney.","Two obviously derived from Henry Inman's 1831\n portrait; one engraved by J. A. O'Neil shows Marshall\n in 1793 as the Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of\n Virginia Freemasons; the last includes engravings of\n portraits of other U.S. Chief Justices: John Jay,\n Oliver Ellsworth, John Rutledge, R. B. Taney, M. R.\n Waite, Salmon P. Chase, and Melville W. Fuller.","Including a short history of Federal Hardware and\n Implement Mutual Insurance companies.","It consists of a 26 February 1884 memorial to the\n General Assembly of Virginia, a 25 February letter to\n the Editor of \n The State , and\n handwritten commentary. Ruffin states the reasons why\n he is opposed to passage of the Richmond Dock and Dry\n dock bill.","Books owned by John Marshall have been removed from this\n collection. For a more detailed location of these books\n please see the Lion Catalog as well as the Association\n Collection in the Manuscripts and Rare Books Department,\n Swem Library, College of William and Mary.","Newspapers have been transferred from this collection.\n See the Manuscripts and Rare Books Department, Swem\n Library, College of William and Mary.","Before publishing quotations or excerpts from any\n materials, permission must be obtained from the Curator of\n Manuscripts and Rare Books, and the holder of the\n copyright, if not Swem Library.","Original letters and copies of\n letters from other repositories, chiefly 1788-1835, of John\n Marshall's correspondence with his wife, Mary Willis (Ambler)\n Marshall, and other family members.","Marshall Family,","Marshall family.","John Marshall,","Mary Willis Ambler Marshall,","James Monroe,","Joseph Story.","Johnson, Herbert A., Charles T.\n Cullen, Nancy G. Harris, Charles F. 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Series 1\n contains correspondence and papers of John Marshall, family\n members and other individuals; Series 2 contains printed\n material, poems and charts; Series 3 contains prints,\n engravings, and artifacts; and Series 4 contains manuscript\n volumes.","This collection is organized into 4 series. Series 1\n contains correspondence and papers of John Marshall, family\n members and other individuals; Series 2 contains printed\n material, poems and charts; Series 3 contains prints,\n engravings, and artifacts; and Series 4 contains manuscript\n volumes.","Arrangement This collection is primarily arranged chronologically by\n date.","This collection is primarily arranged chronologically by\n date."],"bibliography_html_tesm":["\u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003cpersname role=\"author\"\u003eJohnson, Herbert A., Charles T.\n Cullen, Nancy G. Harris, Charles F. Hobson, and others\n eds.\u003c/persname\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Papers of John\n Marshall.\u003c/title\u003e10 vols. to date. \n \u003cimprint\u003eChapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, \n \u003cdate type=\"publication\" era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1974- .\u003c/date\u003e\u003c/imprint\u003eCall\n Number: E302 .M365 v.1 - v.10 \n \u003c/bibref\u003e","\u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003cpersname role=\"author\"\u003eMason, Frances Norton.\u003c/persname\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eMy Dearest Polly; Letters of Chief\n Justice John Marshall to His Wife, With Their Background,\n Political and Domestic, 1779-1831.\u003c/title\u003e\n\u003cimprint\u003eRichmond: Garrett \u0026amp; Massie, \n \u003cdate type=\"publication\" era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1961.\u003c/date\u003e\u003c/imprint\u003eCall Number:\n E302.6 .M4 M33 \n \u003c/bibref\u003e","\u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003cpersname role=\"author\"\u003eOliver, Andrew\u003c/persname\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Portraits of John\n Marshall.\u003c/title\u003e\n\u003cimprint\u003eCharlottesville: Institute of Early American\n History and Culture, University Press of Virginia, \n \u003cdate type=\"publication\" era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1977.\u003c/date\u003e\u003c/imprint\u003eCall Number:\n E302.6 .M4 O44 \n \u003c/bibref\u003e","\u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003cpersname role=\"author\"\u003eRhodes, Irwin S.\u003c/persname\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Papers of John Marshall, A\n Descriptive Calendar.\u003c/title\u003e2 vols. \n \u003cimprint\u003eNorman: University of Oklahoma Press, \n \u003cdate type=\"publication\" era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e[1969].\u003c/date\u003e\u003c/imprint\u003eCall\n Number: KF213 .M3 R5 V.1 - V.2 \n \u003c/bibref\u003e"],"bibliography_heading_ssm":["Bibliography"],"bibliography_tesim":["Johnson, Herbert A., Charles T.\n Cullen, Nancy G. Harris, Charles F. Hobson, and others\n eds. The Papers of John\n Marshall. 10 vols. to date. \n Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, \n 1974- . Call\n Number: E302 .M365 v.1 - v.10 \n ","Mason, Frances Norton. My Dearest Polly; Letters of Chief\n Justice John Marshall to His Wife, With Their Background,\n Political and Domestic, 1779-1831. Richmond: Garrett \u0026 Massie, \n 1961. Call Number:\n E302.6 .M4 M33 \n ","Oliver, Andrew The Portraits of John\n Marshall. Charlottesville: Institute of Early American\n History and Culture, University Press of Virginia, \n 1977. Call Number:\n E302.6 .M4 O44 \n ","Rhodes, Irwin S. The Papers of John Marshall, A\n Descriptive Calendar. 2 vols. \n Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, \n [1969]. Call\n Number: KF213 .M3 R5 V.1 - V.2 \n "],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eJohn Marshall (1755-1835) was born near Germantown, Prince\n William (currently Fauquier) County, Virginia on 24 September\n 1755 to parents Thomas Marshall and Mary Randolph Keith. From\n 1775-1781, Marshall served in the Continental Army and fought\n in the Revolutionary War. During the spring and summer of\n 1780, Marshall attended classes at the College of William and\n Mary and received his license to practice law. After the war,\n he moved to Richmond, Virginia and began his practice.\n Marshall married Mary Willis Ambler in 1783. The couple had\n ten children, six of whom survived to adulthood. He was\n elected as a delegate to the Virginia House of Delegates in\n 1780 and 1782-1788. Later, he was appointed by President John\n Adams to a special commission to France from 1797-1798. The\n commission, which brought about the famous XYZ affair, failed\n to settle existing differences between France and the U.S.\n From 1799-1800, Marshall served as a Federalist representative\n in the 6th United States Congress. He did not serve out his\n term however, as he was appointed by Adams to serve as U.S.\n Secretary of State from 1800-1801. Later, Marshall received\n yet another appointment from Adams this time to the bench as\n the fourth chief justice of the Supreme Court. He was\n confirmed by the Senate on 27 January 1801 and served until\n his death on 6 July 1835. In addition to hearing 1,215 cases\n and authoring 514 opinions, Marshall also wrote, \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Life of George Washington\u003c/title\u003e,\n a book in 5 volumes. Marshall was buried in New Burying\n Ground, Richmond, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["John Marshall (1755-1835) was born near Germantown, Prince\n William (currently Fauquier) County, Virginia on 24 September\n 1755 to parents Thomas Marshall and Mary Randolph Keith. From\n 1775-1781, Marshall served in the Continental Army and fought\n in the Revolutionary War. During the spring and summer of\n 1780, Marshall attended classes at the College of William and\n Mary and received his license to practice law. After the war,\n he moved to Richmond, Virginia and began his practice.\n Marshall married Mary Willis Ambler in 1783. The couple had\n ten children, six of whom survived to adulthood. He was\n elected as a delegate to the Virginia House of Delegates in\n 1780 and 1782-1788. Later, he was appointed by President John\n Adams to a special commission to France from 1797-1798. The\n commission, which brought about the famous XYZ affair, failed\n to settle existing differences between France and the U.S.\n From 1799-1800, Marshall served as a Federalist representative\n in the 6th United States Congress. He did not serve out his\n term however, as he was appointed by Adams to serve as U.S.\n Secretary of State from 1800-1801. Later, Marshall received\n yet another appointment from Adams this time to the bench as\n the fourth chief justice of the Supreme Court. He was\n confirmed by the Senate on 27 January 1801 and served until\n his death on 6 July 1835. In addition to hearing 1,215 cases\n and authoring 514 opinions, Marshall also wrote, \n The Life of George Washington ,\n a book in 5 volumes. 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University of Rochester, Rochester,\n New York.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eLibrary of Congress,\n Washington, D.C.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eWashington University,\n St. Louis, Missouri.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eMassachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLocation of original is unknown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eJohn Marshall House,\n Richmond, Virginia.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eMassachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eJohn Marshall House,\n Richmond, Virginia.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eMassachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLocation of original is unknown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLocation of original is unknown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eWilliam L. Clements\n Library, Ann Arbor,\n Michigan.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eUniversity of\n Virginia?\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eMassachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the Hampton L.\n Carson Collection, \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eFree Library of\n Philadelphia, Philadelphia,\n Pennsylvania.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eJohn Marshall House,\n Richmond, Virginia.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eJohn Marshall House,\n Richmond, Virginia.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eMassachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eMassachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eMassachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is privately owned.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eUniversity of Virginia,\n Charlottesville,\n Virginia.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eMassachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eNational Archives,\n Washington, D.C.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eUniversity of Virginia,\n Charlottesville,\n Virginia.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eMassachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eJohn Marshall House,\n Richmond, Virginia.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eMassachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eMassachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is privately owned.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eMassachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eWashington University,\n St. Louis, Missouri.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the Marshall\n Papers, \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eLibrary of Congress,\n Washington, D.C.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eLibrary of U.S. Supreme\n Court, Washington D.C.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eFauquier County\n Courthouse?\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eMassachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSee the November and December 1832\n issue of \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe\n Comet\u003c/title\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is privately owned.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eMassachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eJohn Marshall House,\n Richmond, Virginia.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eJohn Marshall House,\n Richmond, Virginia.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eMassachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eIllinois State Historical\n Library, Springfield,\n Illinois.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the Marshall\n Papers, \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eLibrary of Congress,\n Washington, D.C.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eMassachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eDuke University, Durham,\n North Carolina.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eMassachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eJohn Marshall House,\n Virginia State Library.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eMassachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eJohn Marshall House,\n Virginia State Library.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eMassachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eHarvard University,\n Cambridge, Massachusetts.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLocation of original is unknown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eVirginia State Library,\n Richmond, Virginia.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eJohn Marshall House,\n Richmond, Virginia.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eRush Rhees Library,\n University of Rochester.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the Hampton L.\n Carson Collection, \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eFree Library of\n Philadelphia, Philadelphia,\n Pennsylvania.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eJohn Marshall House,\n Richmond, Virginia.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLocation of original is unknown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eJohn Marshall House, Richmond,\n Virginia.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eJohn Marshall House, Richmond,\n Virginia.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eJohn Marshall House, Richmond,\n Virginia.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eJohn Marshall House, Richmond,\n Virginia.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eUniversity of Virginia,\n Charlottesville, Virginia.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eJohn Marshall House, Richmond,\n Virginia.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eUniversity of Virginia,\n Charlottesville, Virginia.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eVirginia State Library,\n Richmond, Virginia.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eUniversity of Virginia,\n Charlottesville, Virginia.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eWestover Library, Arlington,\n Virginia.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eLibrary of the College of\n Physicians, Philadelphia,\n Pennsylvania.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eMinnesota Historical Society, St.\n Paul, Minnesota.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal hangs in the \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eVirginia State Library, Richmond,\n Virginia.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis account book has been microfilmed. See\n Marshall, John M-104. 1 reel of negative\n microfilm.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis journal of accounts and law notes has been\n microfilmed. See M-105, M-105a, and M-105b for 3\n copies of positive microfilm. See M-l05c for 1\n reel of negative microfilm.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the Pickering Papers, \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eMassachusetts Historical Society,\n Boston, Massachusetts.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis journal is available only on microfilm.\n See Marshall, John M-107. 1 reel of negative\n microfilm.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReprint is avilable in \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Papers of John\n Marshall, 1796-1798 (vol. 3);\u003c/title\u003eedited by\n Herbert A. Johnson, Charles T. Cullen, Nancy G.\n Harris, Charles F. Hobson, et. al. \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eCall Number: E302 .M365 v.1 - v.10\u003c/p\u003e"],"originalsloc_heading_ssm":["Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals"],"originalsloc_tesim":["Original is located in the Draper\n Collection, \n State Historical Society of\n Wisconsin, Madison,\n Wisconsin.","Original is located in the Monroe Papers,\n Library of Congress,\n Washington, D.C.","Original is located in the \n James Monroe Memorial\n Library, Fredericksburg,\n Virginia.","Original is located in the \n New York Public Library, New\n York City, New York.","Photostat, \n Monroe Papers, Library of\n Congress, Washingon D.C.","Location of original is unknown.","Photostat, \n Monroe Papers, Library of\n Congress, Washington D.C. Location of original is unknown.","Original is located in the \n Henry E. Huntington Library,\n San Marino, California.","Original is located in the Collection of\n the Association for the Preservation of\n Virginia Antiquities, on deposit at the \n Virginia Historical Society,\n Richmond, Virginia.","Original is located in the Page Walker\n Manuscripts, \n University of Virginia\n Library, Charlottesville,\n Virginia.","Original is located in the Nicholas\n Papers, \n University of Virginia\n Library, Charlottesville,\n Virginia.","Original is located in the Page Walker\n Manuscripts, \n University of Virginia\n Library, Charlottesville,\n Virginia.","Original is located in the Collection of\n the Association for the Preservation of\n Virginia Antiquities, on deposit at the \n Virginia Historical Society,\n Richmond, Virginia.","Original is located in the \n Free Library of\n Philadelphia, Philadelphia,\n Pennsylvania.","Original is located in the RG 59, \n National Archives,\n Washington, D.C.","Original is located in the Collection of\n the Association for the Preservation of\n Virginia Antiquities, on deposit at the \n Virginia Historical Society,\n Richmond, Virginia.","Original is located in the Iredell\n Manuscripts, \n Duke University Library,\n Durham, North Carolina.","Original is located in the \n Free Library of\n Philadelphia, Philadelphia,\n Pennsylvania.","Original is located in the RG 59, \n National Archives,\n Washington, D.C.","Original is located in the RG 59, \n National Archives,\n Washington, D.C.","Original is located in the RG 59, \n National Archives,\n Washington, D.C.","Original is located in the RG 59, \n National Archives,\n Washington, D.C.","Original is located in the RG 59, \n National Archives,\n Washington, D.C.","Original is privately owned.","Original is located in the Collection of\n the Association for the Preservation of\n Virginia Antiquities, on deposit at \n Virginia Historical Society,\n Richmond, Virginia.","Original in the Washington Papers, \n Library of Congress,\n Washington, D.C.","Original is privately owned.","Original in the Washington Papers, \n Library of Congress,\n Washington, D.C.","Original is located in the Washington\n Papers, \n Library of Congress,\n Washington, D.C.","Original is located in the Washington\n Papers, \n Library of Congress,\n Washington, D.C.","Original is located in the \n John Marshall House,\n Richmond, Virginia.","Original is located in \n Washington University, St.\n Louis, Missouri.","Location of original is unknown.","Original is located in the Collection\n of the Association for the Preservation\n of Virginia Antiquities, on deposit at\n the \n Virginia Historical\n Society, Richmond,\n Virginia.","Original is located in the Pinckney\n Family Papers, \n Library of Congress,\n Washington, D.C.","Original is located in the Hampton L.\n Carson Collection, \n Free Library of\n Philadelphia, Philadelphia,\n Pennsylvania.","Original is located in the William M.\n Elkins Collection, \n Free Library of\n Philadelphia, Philadelphia,\n Pennsylvania.","Original is located in the Pinkney\n Family Papers, \n Library of Congress,\n Washington D.C.","Original is located in the \n Free Library of\n Philadelphia, Philadelphia,\n Pennsylvania.","Original is located in the \n Free Library of\n Philadelphia, Philadelphia,\n Pennsylvania.","Original is located in the Jefferson\n Papers, \n Library of Congress,\n Washington D.C.","Printed in Dann, \n Mason\n Memoirs .","Original is located in the \n John Marshall House,\n Virginia State Library, Richmond,\n Virginia.","Original is located in the \n Washington University, St.\n Louis, Missouri.","Original is located in the \n University of Virginia,\n Charlottesville, Virginia.","Original is privately owned.","Original is located in the \n University of Virginia,\n Charlottesville, Virginia.","Original is located in the Pinckney\n Papers, \n Library of Congress,\n Washington, D.C.","Original is located in the \n Free Library of\n Philadelphia, Philadelphia,\n Pennsylvania.","Original is located in the Pinckney\n Papers, \n Library of Congress,\n Washington, D.C.","Original is located in the \n Massachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.","Original is located in the \n Massachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.","Original is located in the Monroe Papers,\n Library of Congress,\n Washington, D.C.","Location of original is unknown.","Original is located in the \n University of Virginia,\n Charlottesville, Virginia.","Location of original is unknown.","Original is located in the Hampton L.\n Carson Collection, \n Free Library of\n Philadelphia, Philadelphia,\n Pennsylvania.","Original is located in the RG 59, \n National Archives,\n Washington, D.C.","Original is located in the Hampton L.\n Carson Collection, \n Free Library of\n Philadelphia, Philadelphia,\n Pennsylvania.","Original is located in the \n Massachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.","Original is located in the \n Massachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.","Original is located in the \n Library of Congress,\n Washington, D.C.","Original is located in the \n Massachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.","Original is located in the \n Library of Congress,\n Washington, D.C.","Original is located in the \n John Marshall House,\n Richmond, Virginia.","Original is located in the \n Massachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.","Original is located in the \n Massachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.","Original is located in the \n Massachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.","Original is located in the \n Library of Congress,\n Washington, D.C.","Original is located in the Hampton L.\n Carson Collection, \n Free Library of\n Philadelphia, Philadelphia,\n Pennsylvania.","Original is located in the \n Massachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.","Original is located in the \n Massachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.","Original is located in the \n Library of Congress,\n Washington, D.C.","Original is located in the University of\n Virginia on deposit at \n John Marshall House,\n Richmond, Virginia.","Original is located in the Virginia State\n Library, on deposit \n John Marshall House,\n Richmond, Virginia.","Original is located in the Hampton L.\n Carson Collection, \n Free Library of\n Philadelphia, Philadelphia,\n Pennsylvania.","Original is located in the \n Library of Congress,\n Washington, D.C.","Original is located in \n Washington University, St.\n Louis, Missouri.","Original is located in the \n Library of Congress,\n Washington, D.C.","Original is located in the \n Library of Congress,\n Washington, D.C.","Location of original is unknown.","Original is located in the \n Massachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.","Original is located in the \n Rush Rhees Library,\n University of Rochester, Rochester,\n New York.","Original is located in the \n Library of Congress,\n Washington, D.C.","Original is located in \n Washington University,\n St. Louis, Missouri.","Original is located in the \n Massachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.","Location of original is unknown.","Original is located in the \n John Marshall House,\n Richmond, Virginia.","Original is located in the \n Massachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.","Original is located in the \n John Marshall House,\n Richmond, Virginia.","Original is located in the \n Massachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.","Location of original is unknown.","Location of original is unknown.","Original is located in the \n William L. Clements\n Library, Ann Arbor,\n Michigan.","Original is located in the \n University of\n Virginia?","Original is located in the \n Massachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.","Original is located in the Hampton L.\n Carson Collection, \n Free Library of\n Philadelphia, Philadelphia,\n Pennsylvania.","Original is located in the \n John Marshall House,\n Richmond, Virginia.","Original is located in the \n John Marshall House,\n Richmond, Virginia.","Original is located in the \n Massachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.","Original is located in the \n Massachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.","Original is located in the \n Massachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.","Original is privately owned.","Original is located in the \n University of Virginia,\n Charlottesville,\n Virginia.","Original is located in the \n Massachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.","Original is located in the \n National Archives,\n Washington, D.C.","Original is located in the \n University of Virginia,\n Charlottesville,\n Virginia.","Original is located in the \n Massachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.","Original is located in the \n John Marshall House,\n Richmond, Virginia.","Original is located in the \n Massachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.","Original is located in the \n Massachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.","Original is privately owned.","Original is located in the \n Massachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.","Original is located in the \n Washington University,\n St. Louis, Missouri.","Original is located in the Marshall\n Papers, \n Library of Congress,\n Washington, D.C.","Original is located in the \n Library of U.S. Supreme\n Court, Washington D.C.","Original is located in the \n Fauquier County\n Courthouse?","Original is located in the \n Massachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.","See the November and December 1832\n issue of \n The\n Comet .","Original is privately owned.","Original is located in the \n Massachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.","Original is located in the \n John Marshall House,\n Richmond, Virginia.","Original is located in the \n John Marshall House,\n Richmond, Virginia.","Original is located in the \n Massachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.","Original is located in the \n Illinois State Historical\n Library, Springfield,\n Illinois.","Original is located in the Marshall\n Papers, \n Library of Congress,\n Washington, D.C.","Original is located in the \n Massachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.","Original is located in the \n Duke University, Durham,\n North Carolina.","Original is located in the \n Massachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.","Original is located in the \n John Marshall House,\n Virginia State Library.","Original is located in the \n Massachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.","Original is located in the \n John Marshall House,\n Virginia State Library.","Original is located in the \n Massachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.","Original is located in the \n Harvard University,\n Cambridge, Massachusetts.","Location of original is unknown.","Original is located in the \n Virginia State Library,\n Richmond, Virginia.","Original is located in the \n John Marshall House,\n Richmond, Virginia.","Original is located in the \n Rush Rhees Library,\n University of Rochester.","Original is located in the Hampton L.\n Carson Collection, \n Free Library of\n Philadelphia, Philadelphia,\n Pennsylvania.","Original is located in the \n John Marshall House,\n Richmond, Virginia.","Location of original is unknown.","Original is located in the \n John Marshall House, Richmond,\n Virginia.","Original is located in the \n John Marshall House, Richmond,\n Virginia.","Original is located in the \n John Marshall House, Richmond,\n Virginia.","Original is located in the \n John Marshall House, Richmond,\n Virginia.","Original is located in the \n University of Virginia,\n Charlottesville, Virginia.","Original is located in the \n John Marshall House, Richmond,\n Virginia.","Original is located in the \n University of Virginia,\n Charlottesville, Virginia.","Original is located in the \n Virginia State Library,\n Richmond, Virginia.","Original is located in the \n University of Virginia,\n Charlottesville, Virginia.","Original is located in the \n Westover Library, Arlington,\n Virginia.","Original is located in the \n Library of the College of\n Physicians, Philadelphia,\n Pennsylvania.","Original is located in the \n Minnesota Historical Society, St.\n Paul, Minnesota.","Original hangs in the \n Virginia State Library, Richmond,\n Virginia.","This account book has been microfilmed. See\n Marshall, John M-104. 1 reel of negative\n microfilm.","This journal of accounts and law notes has been\n microfilmed. See M-105, M-105a, and M-105b for 3\n copies of positive microfilm. See M-l05c for 1\n reel of negative microfilm.","Original is located in the Pickering Papers, \n Massachusetts Historical Society,\n Boston, Massachusetts.","This journal is available only on microfilm.\n See Marshall, John M-107. 1 reel of negative\n microfilm.","Reprint is avilable in \n The Papers of John\n Marshall, 1796-1798 (vol. 3); edited by\n Herbert A. Johnson, Charles T. Cullen, Nancy G.\n Harris, Charles F. Hobson, et. al. \n Call Number: E302 .M365 v.1 - v.10"],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eJohn Marshall Papers, Manuscripts and Rare Books\n Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["John Marshall Papers, Manuscripts and Rare Books\n Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary."],"relatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe majority of the copies, comprising approximately 50%\n of this collection, are from the Marshall House in\n Richmond, Virginia; the Library of Congress; or the\n Massachusetts Historical Society, but other depositories\n are also represented. For information concerning the\n location of orginials please see the components listing\n below.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSee also John Marshall Faculty/Alumni File, University\n Archives, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.\u003c/p\u003e"],"relatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Related Material"],"relatedmaterial_tesim":["The majority of the copies, comprising approximately 50%\n of this collection, are from the Marshall House in\n Richmond, Virginia; the Library of Congress; or the\n Massachusetts Historical Society, but other depositories\n are also represented. For information concerning the\n location of orginials please see the components listing\n below.","See also John Marshall Faculty/Alumni File, University\n Archives, Swem Library, College of William and Mary."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eOriginal letters and copies of letters from other\n repositories, chiefly 1788-1835, of John Marshall's\n correspondence with his wife, Mary Willis (Ambler) Marshall,\n other family members, James Monroe, Joseph Story, Bushrod\n Washington, and others. The correspondence reflects Marshall's\n wide range in interests including law, Virginia and U. S.\n politics, international affairs, agriculture and social\n events.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlso included are letters by family members and\n descendants; a charcoal sketch and copies of visual\n representations of John Marshall; and places and events\n associated with him.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas delivered his [Monroe's] letters to \n \u003cabbr expan=\"General George Rogers Clark\"\u003e\n Gen[era]l [George Rogers] Clark\u003c/abbr\u003eand \n \u003cabbr expan=\"John Banks\"\u003e[John?] Banks\u003c/abbr\u003e;\n discusses proceedings of the Virginia Assembly;\n \u003cabbr expan=\"Richard Henry Lee\"\u003eR[ichard]\n H[enry] Lee's\u003c/abbr\u003eservices to the Assembly\n are lost forever and \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Colo. Henry Lee\"\u003eColo. Harry\n [Henry \"Light Horse Harry\"] Lee\u003c/abbr\u003ewill\n probably take his place; mentions bills\n defining citizenship introduced by \n \u003cabbr expan=\"John Taylor\"\u003e[John]\n Taylor\u003c/abbr\u003eand \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Colo. George Nicholas\"\u003eColo.\n [George] Nicholas\u003c/abbr\u003e; tells of [Joseph?]\n Jones bill and discusses \n \u003cabbr expan=\"[Patrick Henry\"\u003ePatrick]\n Henry's\u003c/abbr\u003estyle of oratory; relates the\n House being split upon the issue of exclusion\n of the Statute Staple men; discusses military\n warrants for land and his [Marshall's] father,\n who set out for the western country on November\n 5.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding Tcy of ALS. 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBlesses George Washington who resigned his\n commission of 23 December 1783; will put his\n [Monroe's] letter to \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Major John Crittenden\"\u003eMajr.\n [John] Crittenden\u003c/abbr\u003einto the hands of \n \u003cabbr expan=\"General George Rogers Clarke\"\u003e\n Genl. [George Rogers] Clarke\u003c/abbr\u003e, who will\n be in the western country in February, and who\n will pay close attention to his [Monroe's]\n military warrant; mentions that the Speaker\n [John Tyler] has left Richmond; laments the\n passage of the bill excluding Virginian\n delegates to Congress from serving in the\n Virginian legislature; \"Fear of the power of\n Congress I have ever considered as chimerical;\"\n \u003cabbr expan=\"Colo. John Francis Mercer\"\u003eColo.\n [John Francis] Mercer\u003c/abbr\u003einformed him of the\n passage in the Continental Congress of the\n resolution accepting Virginia's cession of the\n northwest territory.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding Tcy of ALS. 3 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas enclosed a bill of exchange for the one\n hundred dollars due him [Monroe] as a Delegate\n to Congress, four dollars having been expended\n on his land warrant now in the hands of the\n Surveyor.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding Tcy of ALS. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eClaims he is unable to send money because\n inclement weather has hindered state tax\n collection; \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Samuel Ege\"\u003e[Samuel] Ege\u003c/abbr\u003eand\n Monroe's former landlady, Mrs. Shera, are\n clamoring to be paid; mentions the impending\n marriage of \"Little\" \n \u003cabbr expan=\"John Stewart\"\u003e[John]\n Stewart\u003c/abbr\u003eand \"Kitty Hair\" [Catherine\n Hare]; gossips about \"artificial heat\" of the\n courtships of Mr. Dunn and \"your old\n acquaintance\" Miss Shera, and of \"Tabby\" \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Tabitha Eppes\"\u003e[Tabitha]\n Eppes\u003c/abbr\u003ewho \"has grown quite fat \u0026amp;\n buxom, her charms...renovated,\" and her\n unsuccessful suitors: \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Edward Carrington\"\u003e[Edward]\n Carrington\u003c/abbr\u003e, [?] Young, [?] Selden, \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Matthew Wright\"\u003e[Matthew]\n Wright\u003c/abbr\u003e, and \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Foster Webb, Jr.\"\u003eFoster Webb,\n [Jr.]\u003c/abbr\u003e; mentions other friends and state\n officials including \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Thomas Lomax\"\u003e[Thomas]\n Lomax\u003c/abbr\u003e, \n \u003cabbr expan=\"[William Nelson, Jr.\"\u003eWilliam]\n Nelson, [Jr.]\u003c/abbr\u003e, \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Beverley Randolph\"\u003e[Beverley]\n Randolph\u003c/abbr\u003e, and \n \u003cabbr expan=\"William Short\"\u003e[William]\n Short\u003c/abbr\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cabbr expan=\"Colo. William Grayson\"\u003eColo.\n [William] Grayson\u003c/abbr\u003eis not here, but \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Wilson Cary Nicholas\"\u003e[Wilson\n Cary] Nicholas\u003c/abbr\u003eis; a quorum was reached\n on Wednesday, [May 12] and committees are being\n appointed; \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Patrick Henry\"\u003e[Patrick]\n Henry\u003c/abbr\u003earrived yesterday and is eager to\n have postponement of the tax collection; the\n Speaker [John Tyler] was chosen without a\n contest; tell \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Colo. John Francis Mercer\"\u003eColo.\n [John Francis] Mercer\u003c/abbr\u003ethat there lies\n £100 in the Treasury for him; he\n [John Marshall] will tell his [John Francis\n Mercer's] brother [James Mercer] in\n Fredericksburg the same; \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Major John Crittenden\"\u003eMajor\n [John] Crittenden\u003c/abbr\u003eis again elected for\n Fayette County; asks him [Monroe] to deliver\n letters for him to \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Doctor Arthur Lee\"\u003eDoctor [Arthur]\n Lee\u003c/abbr\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReports he delivered his [William Branch\n Giles's] letter to \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Major Charles Magill\"\u003eMajor\n [Charles] Magill\u003c/abbr\u003ewhile in Winchester,\n [Virginia] in August; discusses gaming act and\n several points concerning the case of his\n [William Branch Giles's] client, Mr. Bell; \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Brother James Markham Marshall\"\u003e\n Brother James [Markham Marshall]\u003c/abbr\u003ehas\n arrived from Kentucky and will remain in town\n through October.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding Tcy of ALS. 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCongratulates him on his return from\n Montreal and the Northwest; he too wishes that\n the British debts resolutions had not been\n passed, because it tends to weaken the federal\n bands and provides a pretext for the British to\n retain possession of the forts on the lakes;\n [Joseph Jones] has introduced a bill to provide\n for seven annual payments for repayment to\n begin in April 1786; only bill that has been\n passed was one granting \n \u003cabbr expan=\"James Rumsey\"\u003e[James]\n Rumsey\u003c/abbr\u003ea 10 year monopoly to develop the\n machine in a steamboat; discusses rejected\n bills, including one encouraging intermarriage\n with the Indians; General Assessment and\n circuit court bills will probably be thrown\n out, even with the influence of [Patrick]\n Henry; his [Monroe's] letter recommending \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Colo. John Francis Mercer\"\u003eColo.\n [John Francis] Mercer\u003c/abbr\u003edid not arrive in\n time to appoint him to a position; \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Joseph James\"\u003e[Joseph]\n James\u003c/abbr\u003ehas replaced \n \u003cabbr expan=\"William Short\"\u003e[William]\n Short\u003c/abbr\u003e, and \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Spencer Roane\"\u003e[Spencer]\n Roane\u003c/abbr\u003eand \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Miles Selden, Jr.\"\u003e[Miles] Selden,\n [Jr.]\u003c/abbr\u003ehave replaced \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Meriwether Smith\"\u003e[Meriwether]\n Smith\u003c/abbr\u003eand \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Colo. William Christian\"\u003eColo.\n [William] Christian\u003c/abbr\u003e; \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Edward Carrington\"\u003e[Edward?]\n Carrington\u003c/abbr\u003ewas very disappointed in\n losing by one vote when Colo. Jack Nicholas\n walked out on the last ballot; he [John\n Marshall] attempted too to promote Monroe's\n friend's interest, Wilson Nicholas, who is\n about to marry \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Miss Margaret Smith\"\u003eMiss\n [Margaret] Smith\u003c/abbr\u003eof Baltimore; his\n [Marshall's] father is willing to help him\n [Monroe] in regards to his [Monroe's] western\n lands, but his [John Marshall's] cousin \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Humphrey Marshall\"\u003eHumphr[e]y\n Marshall\u003c/abbr\u003ewould be better able to;\n discusses relative merits of selling or keeping\n his [Monroe's] western lands.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInvitation to dinner; on verso is poem \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"doublequote\" href=\"\"\u003eExtempore at the\n Convention in Virginia,\u003c/title\u003ewritten by\n Morris, satirizing the slowness of the\n proceedings of the Virginia convention called\n to ratify the U.S. Constitution.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSends client a second subpoena as the first\n was never returned, concerning a suit in\n Chancery Court which involved title to land in\n Fauquier County, Virginia; asks that any\n depositions or affidavits be forwarded to\n him.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn response to a letter of Washington's, he\n [John Marshall] discusses the legalities of\n caveats and land patents.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses general English legal history of\n intestacy, and Virginia's laws concerning\n priority of payment of a decedent's debts by an\n executor.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsks for his [Thomas Walker's] account\n rendered to \n \u003cabbr expan=\"John Syme\"\u003e[John] Syme\u003c/abbr\u003efor\n other materials which will help him [John\n Marshall] to argue his [Thomas Walker's] court\n case.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Col. Reuben Lindsay\"\u003eCol. [Reuben]\n Lindsey [sic] [Lindsay]\u003c/abbr\u003ean order upon him\n [John Marshall] for twelve pounds.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses his [John Marshall's] financial\n obligations to him, including £20\n for a chariot; asks him to pay the governor\n [Henry Lee] for a hogshead of wine for him;\n mentions he is setting out immediately for\n Williamsburg.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding Tcy ALS. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding Pst of ALS. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAdvises him [Francis Walker] to take\n testimony showing the value of his [Francis\n Walker's] lands which formerly belonged to \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Mr. Nicholas Meriwether\"\u003eMr.\n [Nicholas] Meriwether\u003c/abbr\u003ein preparation of\n his case; discusses his [Francis Walker's]\n other case against \n \u003cabbr expan=\"William Cabell\"\u003e[William]\n Cabell\u003c/abbr\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe case will probably be heard in March and\n Mrs. [?] Turnbull's presence will not be\n material; the subjects which the testimony\n should point to are the fortune of Mr. [?]\n Turnbull, the injury done that of Mrs.\n Turnbull, and the expenses she has incurred\n since the separation; if he [Charles Lee] can\n learn that, he will prove himself useful in\n Alexandria.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNote asking Jones to pay Garrett Cottringer\n $100; the bill is endorsed on the verso \"Feby\n 11 1794 Reed Payment, Garrett Cottringer.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRespectfully declines the Office of Attorney\n General of the U.S. because of his current\n business in Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas transmitted to the clerk of Dumfries a\n transverse to the Fauquier inquest; hopes that\n it will be determined by means of a demurrer at\n the next terms; discusses why he [John\n Marshall] wishes this.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas just arrived safely in Philadelphia, and\n waits impatiently for the arrival of \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Mr. Alexander Campbell\"\u003eMr.\n [Alexander] Campbell\u003c/abbr\u003ebefore considering a\n British debts case; his [John Marshall's] own\n case may not be taken up; mentions attending\n the theatre and compares Philadelphia's\n favorite actress, Mrs. Marshall, to Richmond's \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Mrs. Anne West Bignall\"\u003eMrs. [Anne\n West] Bignall\u003c/abbr\u003e; has not yet heard from\n his brother, James Markham Marshall; sends\n greetings to his children.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding Pst of ALS. 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn which he [John Marshall] sells 1,640\n acres in Clarke County, Kentucky, near Strouds\n Station which had been patented to Marshall on\n 11 March 1784. At dollars per acre, McCreery\n pays Marshall £500 as a down\n payment, with the balance to be paid when full\n title is proved. The deed is recorded under the\n Seal of the General Court of Virginia on 15\n June 1801.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUpset at the news of \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Rawleigh Colston\"\u003e[Rawleigh]\n Colston's\u003c/abbr\u003eloss, and of the postponement\n of his [John Marshall's] visit to Buckpond,\n stating \"the thoughts of seeing you once\n more...is a principle means of keeping me\n alive\"; is pleased with his son's \"part...in\n the present Storm\"; would like to see his\n grandsons but fears the journey would tax their\n youthful constitutions; discusses his potential\n bequests of his property to the family;\n mentions he has paid taxes on his [John\n Marshall's] military land, but not on that\n which he gave to his grandson, Tom [Thomas\n Marshall] in Fayette [County, Kentucky]; thinks\n that \"the political Horizon [is about] to clear\n up\"; asks Marshall to notify \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Col. Edward Carrington\"\u003eCol.\n [Edward] Carrington\u003c/abbr\u003ethat he [John\n Marshall] has sent \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Mr. Peyton Shorts\"\u003eMr. [Peyton]\n Shorts'\u003c/abbr\u003eaccounts to \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Mr. Oliver Wolcott\"\u003eMr. [Oliver]\n Walcot [sic] [Wolcott]\u003c/abbr\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Mr. John Eyre\"\u003eMr. [John]\n Eyre\u003c/abbr\u003eand \n \u003cabbr expan=\"James Nimmo\"\u003e[James] Nimmo\u003c/abbr\u003e,\n two of Virginia's electors in the presidential\n election of 1796; comments upon the\n distribution of Virginia's electoral votes\n between \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Thomas Jefferson\"\u003e[Thomas]\n Jefferson\u003c/abbr\u003e, \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Samuel Adams\"\u003eSam[ue]l\n Adams\u003c/abbr\u003e, [?] Clinton, \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Aaron Burr\"\u003e[Aaron] Burr\u003c/abbr\u003e, \n \u003cabbr expan=\"General George Washington\"\u003e\n Gen[era]l [George] Washington\u003c/abbr\u003e, [?] \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Pinckney\"\u003ePin[c]kney\u003c/abbr\u003e, and\n John Adams; the Virginia Assembly displays its\n former hostility to Federalism; hopes North\n Carolina will not \"tread the crooked path of\n Virginia\"; will furnish \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Alexander James Dallas\"\u003e[Alexander\n James] Dallas\u003c/abbr\u003ewith his [John Marshall's]\n argument in the British debts case.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTells of a day spent at Mount Vernon\n (\"certainly one of the most delightful\n places in our country\") on his way to\n Philadelphia via Alexandria; misses her so\n much as to send his man \"Dick\" to her with\n this letter; is treated well by his unkle\n [sic] \n \u003cabbr expan=\"James Keith\"\u003e[James]\n Keith\u003c/abbr\u003ein Alexandria; \"I never was\n peremptory but I must now give you one\n positive order. It is be happy\"; sends two\n letters which he accidentally carried off\n and asks her to send the one addressed to \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Genl. Henry Young\"\u003eGenl.\n [Henry] Young\u003c/abbr\u003eto \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Mr. John Hopkins\"\u003eMr. [John]\n Hopkins\u003c/abbr\u003e, and to send the other to his\n brother, [Thomas Marshall].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding Pst of ALS. 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThanks him [Caesar Rodney] for informing\n him that some papers which had slipped out\n of his [John Marshall's] pocket were being\n held by Mr. McCullough at New Castle, whom\n he has requested to post them to\n Philadelphia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses his voyage up the Chesapeake\n from Baltimore; mentions his first meeting\n with President John Adams; describes \"heavy\n gloom\" which hangs around the almost\n bankrupt Robert Morris and family; is\n impressed by the Vauxhall of Philadelphia\n and fashionable diversions; mentions estate\n of \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Mrs. Susan Hayward\"\u003eMrs.\n [Susan] Heyward [sic] [Hayward]\u003c/abbr\u003eon the\n banks of the Schuylkil.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding Pst of ALS. 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIs \"extremely chagrined\" at never\n receiving any mail from her; writes he will\n sail on the brig Grace for Amsterdam within\n the week to join \n \u003cabbr expan=\"General Charles Pinckney\"\u003e\n General [Charles] Pinckney\u003c/abbr\u003e; discusses\n July 4th celebration of the Senators and\n Representatives.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding Pst of ALS. 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas received her letter of June 30;\n thanks Heaven for her improved health and\n warns her that \"melancholy may inflict\n punishment\" on her unborn child; mentions\n that \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Colonel Robert Gamble\"\u003eColonel\n [Robert] Gamble's\u003c/abbr\u003ewife would like to\n visit her; expects to sail by the beginning\n of next week at the latest and is upset at\n the delay; will finish his business and\n return as soon as possible; sends greetings\n to his children and mother-in-law; mentions\n the adjournment of Congress.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding Pst of ALS. 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSends this letter by \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Mr. Humphrey Marshall\"\u003eMr.\n [Humphrey ?] Marshall\u003c/abbr\u003e; attended the\n play \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eRomeo and\n Juliet\u003c/title\u003elast night, and compares \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Mrs. Anne Bruton Merry\"\u003eMrs.\n [Anne Bruton] Merry's\u003c/abbr\u003e\"Juliet\" to\n Richmond's \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Mrs. Anne West Bignall\"\u003eMrs.\n [Anne] West [Bignall's]\u003c/abbr\u003e; visited \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Mrs. Susan Hayward\"\u003eMrs.\n [Susan] Heyward [sic] Hayward\u003c/abbr\u003eand\n gossips about her rumored upcoming marriage\n to [Henry] Baring; complains about delayed\n departure and wearies of dining out, as he\n begins \"to require a frugal repast with good\n cool water\"; wishes \"that we were looking\n back on our separation instead of seeing it\n before us.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding Pst of ALS. 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsks her to give a parcel of land deeds\n from \n \u003cabbr expan=\"John Banks\"\u003e[John?]\n Banks\u003c/abbr\u003eto Hobe, which can be found in\n his pine desk in his office, to the clerk of\n the General Court; is impatient to get on\n board ship and away; wishes he had spent\n another week in Richmond; with tomorrow's\n departure of the Republican, \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Richard Brent\"\u003e[Richard]\n Brent\u003c/abbr\u003e, the last of the Virginia\n Congressmen will have left the city; \"my\n spirits sink at parting with them.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding Pst of ALS. 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWill board the \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eGrace\u003c/title\u003eat New\n Castle on Sunday [July 18] and will\n hopefully arrive in Amsterdam by the end of\n August; should hear from him next in\n October; \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Mr. John Brown\"\u003eMr. [John]\n Brown\u003c/abbr\u003e[his secretary] has just arrived\n on the last stage; received his son Tom's\n letter of July 6; dined yesterday at William\n Bingham's country seat on the Schuylkil;\n describes the table setting and \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Mrs. Anne Willing Bingham\"\u003eMrs.\n [Anne Willing] Bingham's\u003c/abbr\u003edressing in\n the latest fashions; besides his Virginia\n relations, he most enjoys the company of \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Mr. Robert Morris\"\u003eMr. [Robert]\n Morris'\u003c/abbr\u003efamily.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding Pst of ALS. 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUnfavorable winds have prevented them\n from reaching the open ocean; describes ship\n board accommodations, provisions, and\n companions, including John Brown, John G.\n Gamble, the Captain of the ship, Mr. Willis,\n and two Dutch gentleman; has sent a letter\n to Winchester, [Virginia] for his son, Tom;\n instructs her how to reach him [John\n Marshall] by letter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding Pst of ALS. 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1200 or 1300 miles east of the Capes of\n Delaware, Marshall and the crew hailed a\n ship bound for America; has not been very\n seasick and has busied himself with reading;\n has arrived in Holland and sends news of his\n health and safety on the first American\n bound ship.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding Pst of ALS. 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe captain of a British frigate of\n Admiral Duncan's fleet at the mouth of the\n Texel boarded their ship on August 29 but\n treated them extremely politely upon\n learning that a U.S. minister was on board;\n observed the Dutch fleet in the Texel ready\n to move on the British if negotiations at\n Lisle [sic] [Lille] failed; describes the\n internal politics of the French government:\n the Directory presses for war while the\n Council of Five Hundred desires peace,\n fearing the politicization of the French\n army; Lord Malmesberry [sic] [Malmesbury;\n William Harris] is at Lisle [sic] [Lille]\n negotiating for peace between Britain and\n France; Tayleran Perigord [sic] [Charles\n Maurice de Talleyran Perigord], the French\n Minister of foreign affairs, has sent orders\n to French parts to grant immediate passports\n to the American envoys.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArrived at the Hague and met with \n \u003cabbr expan=\"General Charles C. Pinckney\"\u003e\n General [Charles C.] Pinckney\u003c/abbr\u003eon\n September 3; has just heard from an express\n from the Dutch minister at Paris to the\n Committee of Foreign Affairs about the\n Directory with the aid of the army moving\n against royalist and right wing opponents in\n the Directory, the Council of Five Hundred\n and the Council of Elders; discusses the\n impact which this coup d'etat of 18\n Fructidor should have upon foreign policy;\n the French government is now in the hands of\n those unfriendly to peace, and the moderates\n willing to judge the American case with\n fairness have been removed; received news of\n \u003cabbr expan=\"Mr. Elbridge Gerry\"\u003eMr.\n [Elbridge] Gerry's\u003c/abbr\u003eintended departure\n from Boston on July 23 and will await his\n arrival in Rotterdam for a week before they\n leave for Paris.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReached the Hague on August 3 and is very\n much pleased with \n \u003cabbr expan=\"General Charles C. Pinckney\"\u003e\n General [Charles C.] Pinckney\u003c/abbr\u003e; had\n intended to set out for Paris immediately,\n but Pinckney received news from \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Elbridge Gerry\"\u003e[Elbridge]\n Gerry\u003c/abbr\u003eon August 5 that he will arrive\n at the end of August; is perplexed and\n mortified at the delay; describes the Hague\n and its social life; mentions lack of\n companions for Pinckney's wife and daughter;\n has enjoyed the theatre even though he does\n not understand the language, and applauds\n the performances of \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Madame Louise Rosalie Lefebvre DuGrazon\"\u003e\n Madame [Louise Rosalie Lefebvre] de Gazon\n [sic] [DuGrazon]\u003c/abbr\u003e; the Directory's\n coup in Paris may abridge negotiations so as\n to occasion his return to America this fall,\n but he would resent such a circumstance even\n though he misses her immensely and is\n impatient to be with her again.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding Pst of ALS. 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe reports on the revolution in Paris\n have been confirmed; discusses violations of\n the French constitution, under the hand of\n the army, the very essence of a republic is\n destroyed, but \"French liberty may survive\n the shock it has sustained;\" \"All power is\n now in the undivided possession of those who\n have directed against us those hostile\n measures of which we so justly complain;\"\n will set out for Paris on Monday with or\n without \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Elbridge Gerry\"\u003e[Elbridge]\n Gerry\u003c/abbr\u003e; contrary to previous reports,\n negotiations still continue at Lille; their\n route to Paris is prescribed on their\n permit, probably to prevent their passing\n through Lisle [sic]; [Philippe Antoine] and \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Merlin de Douai\"\u003eMerlin [de\n Douai]\u003c/abbr\u003eis chosen director to replace\n Barthelemey and \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Nicholas Francois de Neufchateau\"\u003e\n [Nicholas] Francois de Neufchatil [sic]\n [Neufchateau]\u003c/abbr\u003eto replace Carnot; Mr.\n Noel, the minister of France at the Hague\n has just informed him that 1,500 people have\n been arrested at Lyons and that \n \u003cabbr expan=\"General Andre Massena\"\u003eGeneral\n [Andre] Massena\u003c/abbr\u003eis marching to Avignon\n to quell resistance there.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes a copy of the letter which the\n three submitted to the French minister of\n foreign affairs after waiting to be received\n for a month; they have yet to receive an\n answer to this November 11 letter, and the\n condemnation of American vessels continues;\n the following is written in a numeric cipher\n which is decoded in superscript: \"Frequent\n and urgent attempts have been made to\n inveigle us again into negociation [sic]\n with persons not officially authorized, of\n which the obtaining of money is the\n basis...we have very little prospect of\n succeeding in our mission.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas enclosed an issue of the Conservative\n [sic] [ \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003e\n Conservateur\u003c/title\u003e(Paris)] as an example\n of the abuse of the U.S. by the French\n press; discusses the arrests of innocent\n American citizens in Paris, including the\n cases of \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Jesse Putnam\"\u003e[Jesse]\n Putnam\u003c/abbr\u003e, \n \u003cabbr expan=\"James V. Murray\"\u003e[James V.]\n Murray\u003c/abbr\u003eand his brother [George W.\n Murray]; discusses the situation of American\n merchant marines who, being forced ashore\n after their vessels were captured, have no\n choice but to become French privateers;\n \"France resounds with the proposd [sic]\n invasion of England,\" but such talk may be\n designed merely to alarm Britain; discusses\n France's continental ambitions and Spain's\n situation; writes of the internal France\n political scene; encloses the November 7\n issue of the Leyden gazette with news of \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Emmanuel Louis Henri Alexandre de Launay, comte D'Anteaigues\"\u003e\n [Emmanuel Louis Henri Alexandre de Launay,\n comte] D'Anteaigues\u003c/abbr\u003eand \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Joseph Fouche\"\u003e[Joseph] Fauche\n [sic] [Fouche]\u003c/abbr\u003eand the reports of \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Gillaume Alexandre Troncon de DuCounaray\"\u003e\n [Gillaume Alexandre] Troncon de\n [Du]Counaray\u003c/abbr\u003eand \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Antoine-Claire Thibaudeau\"\u003e\n [Antoine-Claire] Thibidau [sic]\n [Thibaudeau]\u003c/abbr\u003e; gives his opinion of\n the future French treatment of the U.S.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas received no letters from her nor from\n his friends in the U.S.; will not be home\n until May and hopes that the Randolph's\n Executors case can be postponed until then;\n mentions amusements and dissipations of\n Paris; describes his new living arrangements\n [with Madame de Villette].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding Pst of ALS. 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCannot settle or pay the accounts of\n American Consuls until the Congress of the\n United States acts on the matter; the three\n have agreed to transcend their powers to a\n limited extent in order to liberate distressed\n American seamen and return them to the U.S.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of ALS. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePresents his compliments to Marshall; called\n at his lodgings twice this morning, but he\n [John Marshall] was not in; regrets that he\n will not be able to dine with him due to a\n previous engagement.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArrived in Richmond a week ago but hasn't\n been able to attend to his business because of\n his many callers and because of the heat; he\n enjoys the company of his three year old\n daughter, Mary; discusses the health of his\n son, John, who is cutting teeth.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding Pst of ALS. 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses Gerry's letter of 20 October 1798\n to President John Adams, in which he [Elbridge\n Gerry] makes several misstatements about his\n part in the XYZ Affair, which Marshall now\n refutes point by point; \"I must hope sir that\n you will think justly on this subject \u0026amp;\n will thereby save us both the pain of an\n altercation...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eApologizes for an article lately published\n listing the offices which he [George\n Washington] offered to him [John Marshall],\n with which he [John Marshall] had nothing to\n do; the writer of the article, who obtained no\n information directly or indirectly from him\n [John Marshall], \"was unquestionably actuated\n by a wish to serve me and by resentment at the\n various malignant calumnies that have been so\n profusely bestowed on me.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIs pleased with his [John Marshall's]\n election to the [Congress] even though by a\n small majority; discusses the elections; asks\n him to inform him of the election results when\n all are known.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWill communicate the enclosures of his\n [George Washington's] last letter to \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Col. Edward Carrington\"\u003eCol.\n [Edward] Carrington\u003c/abbr\u003eand \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Col. William Heth\"\u003eCol. [William]\n Heth\u003c/abbr\u003ewhen they arrive in town; comments\n upon the elections and the unexpected defeat of\n \u003cabbr expan=\"Col. George Hancock\"\u003eCol. [George]\n Hancock\u003c/abbr\u003eand Major [?] Haywood; discusses\n the composition of the new state legislature;\n and upon France's declaration of war upon\n Austria and its consequences.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses military appointments and\n recommends several officers, including \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Col. John Cropper\"\u003eCol. [John]\n Cropper\u003c/abbr\u003e, \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Genl. George Rogers Clark\"\u003eGenl.\n [George Rogers] Clark\u003c/abbr\u003e, \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Genl. Thomas Posey\"\u003eGenl. [Thomas]\n Posey\u003c/abbr\u003e, Col. James Breckenbridge, \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Col. Callohill Minnis\"\u003eCol.\n [Callohill] Minnis\u003c/abbr\u003e, \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Genl. Robert Porterfield of Augusta\"\u003e\n Genl. [Robert] Porterfield of Augusta\u003c/abbr\u003e, \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Genl. Joseph Blackwell of Fauquier\"\u003e\n Genl. [Joseph] Blackwell of Fauquier\u003c/abbr\u003e,\n and \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Col. Joseph Swearingean of Berkley\"\u003e\n Col. [Joseph] Swearingean of Berkley\u003c/abbr\u003e;\n comments upon the death of \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Mr. Patrick Henry\"\u003eMr. [Patrick]\n Henry\u003c/abbr\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWas unable to return the enclosed letter\n because he was out of town and his happy that\n he [George Washington] is not displeased that\n it was not transmitted to \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Col. John Cropper\"\u003eCol. [John]\n Cropper\u003c/abbr\u003e; has just received his [George\n Washington's] second letter to that gentleman\n and will forward it immediately.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding Pst of ADS, 2 pages. 5 August\n 1812. Indenture of Isaac Arnold and Elija\n Arnold assigning the title of the Manor of\n Leeds to James K. Marshall.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEncloses a blank power of attorney in order\n to transfer and draw dividends upon his\n Pennsylvania Bank Stock which Mr. [?] Pleasant\n has just remitted him [John Marshall];\n discusses land sales and the Manor of Leeds;\n discusses political situation and how the next\n election will affect their affairs; comments\n upon domestic unrest in regards to foreign\n affairs: \" I look forward with more\n apprehension than I have ever done to the\n future political events of our country;\" has\n just been informed of the total English defeat\n in Holland.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of ALS. 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCongratulates him on his marriage; the\n newspapers report Philadelphia mourning the\n death of Genl. Washington; hopes that\n moderation and toleration will succeed the\n violence of the last session of Congress; party\n strife exasperates Pennsylvania; the Governor\n has threatened to turn out of office every man\n who voted against him.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReplies to a letter which proposed a\n change of the law for collecting the\n internal revenue of the U.S. in\n nonintercourse law with France; mentions\n that popular feeling is against it, as the\n public sees it responsible for present low\n price of tobacco.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas received her letter of August 5 and\n is pleased with her account of the\n children's behavior; approves of her sending\n the boys \"upcountry;\" Tom's [Thomas\n Marshall] last letter contained no news of\n her health.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas just returned from a visit to Mt.\n Vernon where the widowed Mrs. Washington\n appeared \"tolerably cheerful;\" hopes Polly\n would \"show more firmness\" as a widow;\n pleased with his young son, Jacqueline's,\n last letter and hopes his schooling with Mr.\n Burns will continue.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding Pst of ALS. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses the results of the presidential\n election of 1800 in Maryland, New England,\n and Pennsylvania, stating that it is \"an\n absolute certainty that any success in your\n state [South Carolina] elects him [Thomas\n Jefferson].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReproaches himself for forgetting to\n recommend Major [?] Richardson to him [the\n commander of the 2nd Brig., Virginia\n militia] and does so now, hoping his neglect\n has not been a negative reflection of\n Richardson's abilities.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn compliance with his [John Jay] letter,\n the President [John Adams] has directed a\n requisition to be made to the Governor of\n Lower Canada for the delivery of Thomas\n Jamieson, alias Charles Splendor, a.k.a.\n Charles Johnston to the authorized person;\n the requisition and related documents are\n enclosed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses the difficulties involved in\n the present negotiations between King and\n the British commissioners; the President\n [John Adams] informs him that an informal\n agreement will be satisfactory as it will be\n impossible to induce the British cabinet to\n abandon their principles; matters are left\n to his good judgment; the stipulation of a\n sum is better than the present unsettled\n situation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHis financial embarrassments have\n prevented him from devoting time to writing\n the history or General Washington's life;\n sends him [John Marshall] a trunk containing\n Washington's books and papers, and an\n enclosed list thereof; wishes he weren't so\n ignorant of bankruptcy proceedings.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePresidential candidates, \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Thomas Jefferson\"\u003e[Thomas]\n Jefferson\u003c/abbr\u003eand \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Aaron Burr\"\u003e[Aaron]\n Burr\u003c/abbr\u003e, have an equal number or votes,\n and thus the House or Representatives must\n decide the issue; Marshall aces not care\n which way the election goes, but \"witnesses\n the anxiety of parties;\" suspects the\n contest will be decided by South Carolina;\n even it Jefferson wins, Burr probably \"will\n not surrender...all his pretensions to the\n office;\" is chagrined by the late Federalist\n defeat and blames unfaithful men like Mr.\n [Marston?] or Rhode Island who threw away\n their votes, as attributed in the letters to\n \u003cabbr expan=\"General Alexander Hamilton\"\u003e\n General [Alexander]\n Hamilton's\u003c/abbr\u003epamphlet; the treaty with\n France is before the Senate; \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Chief Justice Oliver Ellsworth\"\u003e\n Chief Justice [Oliver] Ellsworth\u003c/abbr\u003ehas\n resigned and \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Mr. John Jay\"\u003eMr. [John]\n Jay\u003c/abbr\u003ehas been nominated in his place;\n looks forward to returning to Richmond in\n March and leaving behind forever his\n political career.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAn expression of the sentiments or\n respect which accompanied Vanderburgh's\n presidential commission to become a judge of\n Indiana Territory.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses the probable policies of the new\n [Jefferson] administration; they will\n strengthen the state governments at the expense\n of the Federal, transferring as many powers to\n the House of Representatives as possible; the\n cabinet will probably consist of \n \u003cabbr expan=\"James Madison\"\u003e[James]\n Madison\u003c/abbr\u003eas Secretary of State, \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Henry Dearbourne\"\u003e[Henry]\n Dearbourne\u003c/abbr\u003e[sic] as Secretary of War, \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Albert Gellatin\"\u003e[Albert]\n Gellatin\u003c/abbr\u003eor \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Abraham Baldwin\"\u003e[Abraham]\n Baldwin\u003c/abbr\u003eas Secretary of the Treasury,\n maybe \n \u003cabbr expan=\"General Robert Smith\"\u003eGeneral\n [Robert] Smith\u003c/abbr\u003eas Secretary of the Navy,\n and \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Levi Lincoln\"\u003e[Levi]\n Lincoln\u003c/abbr\u003eor Mr. Livingstone [Robert R.\n Livingston] as Attorney General; many of\n Jefferson's party are disposed to press on to\n war, but the government will probably excite as\n much hate and resentment as possible amongst\n the people against England without proceeding\n to actual hostilities; the ill conduct of the\n British cruisers and Vice Admiralty and the\n remonstrances of American merchants well serves\n this purpose; delay the completion of your\n mission until you hear from the new\n administration as the present agreement with\n the British would not be ratified.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of ALS. 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccepts his [Thomas Jefferson's] offer to\n administer the Presidential oath of office to\n him.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBeing sued by Virginia on a bond of security\n which he signed for Daniel Brodhead several\n years ago, Marshall has learned that the\n recipient of this letter was acquainted with\n the advertisements which Brodhead was required\n to post; he sends him a commission, therefore,\n and asks for his and Colonel Anderson's\n depositions concerning Brodhead and his\n business.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIs composing a history of General\n Washington's life and requests information\n about the war in the Southern states, because\n General [?] Lincoln's letters to Washington in\n his [John Marshall's] possession do not tell\n much about the combined Franco-American\n operations at Savannah in 1779; send any\n important particulars respecting the siege of\n Charleston; is disgusted with the political\n world and hopes to see him [Charles Cotesworth\n Pinckney] in Richmond soon; asks about the\n political climate of South Carolina and thinks\n federalism may prevail in three districts in\n Virginia's state elections.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses the mild but rainy weather and\n mentions various calamities which have befallen\n him: \"15 silver dollars\" of his \"had worn\n through\" his pocket \"and sought their liberty\n in the sands of Carolina;\" and when his man\n Peter unpacked his clothes, he discovered that\n he had not packed any of Marshall's breeches;\n \"I thought I shou'd be sans culotte only one\n day,\" but all the town's were too busy to work\n for him; \"I have the extreme mortification to\n pass the whole term without that important\n article of dress...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding Pst of ALS. 3 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThanks him for an oration which he sent on\n the death of Alexander Hamilton; hopes that\n Hamilton's death will cast some odium upon\n dueling; was not aware that he had played a\n part in producing the commercial meet in\n Baltimore; did not know he resigned the\n emoluments of his military service.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas received his [John Marshall's] November\n 2 letter requesting information for his [John\n Marshall's] history of General Washington's\n life, and will send his recollections of many\n transactions as soon as he can put them to\n paper; he [John Marshall] should also contact\n Colonel [Bushrod] Washington; will send the\n book \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eCampaigns of 1780 and\n 1781\u003c/title\u003e, supposedly written with [?]\n Tarleton's assistance, which contains more\n official documents than any other work and\n correct plans of some of the actions, if it\n will be of any use.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArrived at her mother's yesterday, and found\n her not as well as he had hoped; her sisters\n are well; forgot to pay his brother Charles\n five dollars for his [John Marshall] son John's\n schooling; things are badly conducted at his\n [John Marshall's] plantation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses the problems of the Fairfax lands\n and the people of Winchester; will endeavor to\n raise a considerable part of the money required\n for payment.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of ALS. 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsks for the money which he [John Ambler]\n owes him for payment for land; needs it to make\n his [John Marshall's] payment to Mr. [?]\n Fairfax, which fact he [John Ambler] knew; his\n [John Marshall's] brother William will take the\n contract off his [John Ambler's] hands if\n desired.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTakes no offense at his [John Marshall]\n printing of his [John Adams] letters to \n \u003cabbr expan=\"General Washington\"\u003eGen[era]l\n Washington\u003c/abbr\u003ein his [John Marshall's]\n biography of Washington; in detailing the\n events of the last years of Washington's life,\n he [John Marshall] \"will run the gauntlet\n between two influential factions, armed with\n scorpions...;\" but such an investigation must\n be made; comments upon his [John Adams]\n appointing \n \u003cabbr expan=\"General Washington\"\u003eGen[era]l\n Washington\u003c/abbr\u003eto head of the army.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas received his [James Markham Marshall's]\n letter enclosing Col. Thurston's deed; did not\n hear about his [James Markham Marshall's] suit\n with Stevens; Fitzhugh's note is in [?]\n Williams' hand but has yet to get process\n executed on him as he stays at different places\n in Maryland and can't be easily found;\n discusses arrangements made for their nephew\n Tom, with their brother William.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses politics and report of Mr. [?]\n Chesnut that the Democratic Party in South\n Carolina would unquestionably support him\n [Charles Cotesworth Pinckney]; the late\n convention at New York confided that \"unless\n this point can be gained...we [the Federalists]\n shall again miscarry;\" no times have been more\n perilous than the present because of the\n internal changes wrought \"by a party always\n hostile to our constitution\" and because of\n even greater external threats; if the present\n foreign policy with France is continued, the\n United States \"will soon become an empty name\"\n and will no longer be independent; has spent\n his time on agricultural pursuits instead of\n professional duty, and scarcely ever reads a\n newspaper, but the nation's troubles are too\n serious for him to continue to do so; the\n Virginia Federalists may win three or four\n seats in the next Congress, but there is no\n hope for the presidential election.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRequests him to pay James Brown one thousand\n dollars when his [John Marshall's] quarterly\n salary accrues on October 1.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRichmond Federalists have mutinied, and have\n recommended to their brethren throughout\n Virginia to support the Monroe ticket; was out\n of town but attempts to explain the reasons for\n such action.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIs honored to be chosen as a corresponding\n member of the Massachusetts Historical Society;\n as he will not return to Washington, [D.C.]\n until February, perhaps some member of Congress\n might find room in his baggage for the volume\n he [John Eliot] mentioned.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsks him to send the collections of the\n Society.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses arrangements being made with Mr.\n [?] Willing and [?] Francis to take his [John\n Marshall] two sons, [John and James Keith\n Marshall], into their counting house when they\n reach the age of 16; outlines their recommended\n course of study before then; Mr. [?] Waln[?]\n will receive his [John Marshall] other son,\n [Edward Carrington Marshall], into his\n mercantile establishment, if the precarious\n state of the country: commerce permits it, when\n he comes of age; asks if he should send his\n [John Marshall] half-pipe of wine to Richmond\n by way of Norfolk.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding Ph. 1 page. Incomplete.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAcknowledges letters of Apr. 22, 29, and 30.\n Outlines patents to Virginia land. Philip\n Pendleton, Anderson, and Hunter involved in\n caveat; advises against use of treasury warrant\n for 1,180 acres. Colston. Decision in Hunter\n and Fairfax case, decided in favor of Hunter.\n Asks Lee's opinion as to appeal to Supreme\n Court; John Marshall favors appeal; sending\n record; Jones to be engaged as attorney to help\n Lee. Cause precedent for pending caveats if\n Supreme Court \"against us,\" save expense; if\n \"in our favor,\" probably respected or ascertain\n points for ultimate determination \"in our\n favor.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIs gratified by the compliments he [John\n Marshall] paid to him in his last letter, and\n hopes to continue his service to the country;\n has not learned if [?] Serruier is charged with\n any special orders to the government; [?]\n Turreau has for some time desired to return to\n France; asks him [John Marshall] for a proper\n statement of an anecdote concerning Temple\n Franklin and Benjamin Franklin Bache's\n unsuccessful attempts to establish a newspaper,\n which he [John Marshall] related to him last\n year.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding Pst of ALS. 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUpon his return from the \"laborious\n relaxation\" of his farm, he found the\n President's [Madison] message, the report of\n the committee of foreign relations, and the\n declaration of war against Great Britain.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccepts his invitation to dine with him.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccepts his invitation to dine with him on\n Wednesday.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCannot direct the special court he [Littleon\n Wailer Tazewell] requested because the law\n authorizing a circuit judge to perform the\n duties of a district judge is limited only to\n the case of the disability of an existing\n district judge, and does not extend to the case\n of a vacancy of that office; has notified the\n Secretary of State of the public hardships if\n an appointment is postponed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceived a copy of his book, Historical\n Letters, and asks Mr. [?] Pleasant to sign him\n up as a subscriber; comments favorably upon the\n work, a comparative history of the nations of\n the world.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceived his cheek for $500 and letter upon\n his [John Marshall] return from North Carolina;\n will receive four sets of \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Life of\n Washington\u003c/title\u003efrom \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Mr. Mason Locke Weems\"\u003eMr. [Mason\n Locke] Weems\u003c/abbr\u003e; discusses a case of\n Admiralty business which he had just heard in\n circuit court and asks for his [Bushrod\n Washington] opinion; is anxious to terminate\n next court's business so he can devote himself\n to the farm.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of ALS. 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses whether the power to pass\n bankruptcy laws resides in the states or in the\n federal government; discusses part of\n Constitution which inhibits passage of \"law\n impairing the obligation of contracts\" and how\n it relates to bankruptcy laws; says he [Bushrod\n Washington] heard the argument and his opinion\n could be relied upon better than his.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsks what provision is made for them at\n their session; will he make accommodations for\n them; asks \"Are we to have peace; or is the war\n to be continued till we are dismembered?\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsks him [Bushrod Washington] to ask the\n counting house of Messrs. Willing \u0026amp; Francis\n if they are still willing to take his [John\n Marshall] fifteen year old son James (now a\n student at Cambridge) into their firm.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas made inquiries in response to his\n letter; land for which taxes are unpaid before\n August will be sold; payment can be made to the\n Sheriff of the county; discusses George\n Washington letters and how he thinks they\n should be published; asks him to settle a\n newspaper account for him.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEncloses a copy of a letter from Robert\n Colston in which he [Robert Colston] complains\n of his [John Ambler's] withholding payment and\n threatens him John Ambler] with a lawsuit;\n suggests that he [John Ambler] give Mr. Colston\n an order on Mr. [?] Smith for the amount in\n question with as little delay as possible.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses civil admiralty jurisdiction about\n which he had formed an opinion from the\n characters in a case of piracy not from\n precedent; wishes him to discuss revision of \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003e\"The Life\" [of George\n Washington]\u003c/title\u003ewith Mr. Wayne while he is\n in Philadelphia; explains his ideas for the\n organization of the work; says it must be\n prepared at leisure and not offered until there\n is a demand for it.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEncloses a memorandum from the Auditors'\n office concerning William Marshall's lands in\n Nason and Franklin counties, [Kentucky], and a\n letter which he wishes delivered to his sister\n [Jane (Marshall) Taylor]; she desired him to\n engage a house for her at Fauquier Court\n House.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEncloses a memorandum from the Filson club.\n 2 pages. Including TCy of ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAfter reading the recipient's address to the\n New York Historical Society, he sends him his\n thoughts on the study of history.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses the Washington social life; is\n impressed with the French minister and his wife\n [?]; \n \u003cabbr expan=\"William Wirt\"\u003e[William]\n Wirt\u003c/abbr\u003earrived yesterday but he brought no\n letters; warns her to take enough blankets to\n arm herself against the intense cold when she\n goes to Chiccahoniiny [sic] on February 21.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding Pat of ALS. 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsks Marshall to administer the Presidential\n oath to him.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding Pst of ALS. 1 page. Also including\n TCy of ALS. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAgrees to administer the Presidential oath\n of office to James Monroe.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding Ph. neg. of ALS. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas read in \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Jaquelin Marshall\"\u003eJaquelin\n [Marshall]'s\u003c/abbr\u003elast letter news of her ill\n health, and advises her not to expose herself\n to the cold in her fears of being too warm; he\n is in good health and is busily employed. 1\n page. ALS. Including ALS on verso from John\n Marshall, to his son [John?], discussing farm\n matters, and asking him to receive the\n overseer's letter concerning such things as\n preparing the soil with plaster of paris\n grubbing, cutting, and burning; does not want\n him to send packages by post, but by private\n conveyance if available; sends him a note for\n $60 to pay Mr.[?] Cocke for 20 barrels of corn;\n asks about \n \u003cabbr expan=\"James Keith Marshall\"\u003eJames [Keith\n Marshall]\u003c/abbr\u003eand hopes he has engaged in a\n course of reading.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlso Including TCy of ALS. l page. Also\n Including Pst of ALS. 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEncloses a letter from \n \u003cabbr expan=\"General Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette\"\u003e\n General [Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du\n Motier, Marquis de] Lafayette\u003c/abbr\u003e, which he\n has been unable to deliver in person, as the\n General had instructed; saw \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Judge Bushrod Washington\"\u003eJuge\n [sic] [Bushrod] Washington\u003c/abbr\u003eseveral months\n earlier, and was informed by him that Mr. [?]\n Graham returned to Lafayette the General's\n papers, which Marshall had borrowed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding ALS, 22 April 1817, from \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Marquis de Lafayette\"\u003e[Marquis de]\n Lafayette\u003c/abbr\u003e, La grange, [France], to John\n Marshall, United States, Virginia. Introducing\n his friend M. des Caves; praises Marshall's\n biography of Washington and says that most of\n his correspondence with Washington was lost\n during the French Revolution; mentions the\n copies of Washington's letters to him, which he\n desires to be returned to him by Bushrod\n Washington; recommends M. desCaves to him [John\n Marshall].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of ALS. 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIs unable to accept his invitation to dine\n with him because of his health.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRequests that his case before the \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Supreme Court\"\u003e[Supreme]\n Court\u003c/abbr\u003ebe given a day's respite as the\n extremes of weather have incapacitated him.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas received and finally read the address\n which he presented to the New York\n Historical Society; was much pleased with\n its clarity and lucid arrangement, and feels\n the public would like to see more from his\n pen.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsks for information about nail making\n machines in Boston, for a friend of his who\n might like to purchase one; the opinion in\n the Banks case \"has roused the sleeping\n spirit of Virginia\" and will be attacked in\n the papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsks him to purchase books for his [John\n Marshall] nephew, [?] Taylor who is at\n school in Kentucky; makes arrangements to\n pay the bookseller and [?] Deiplaine, and to\n have him send the volumes, including \" \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eTerence [sic] \u0026amp;\n Livy in Latin, Longinus\u003c/title\u003e, \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThucydides, \u0026amp;\n Demosthenes in Greek\u003c/title\u003e, also \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eXenophens retreat of\n the 10,000\u003c/title\u003e\" to his [John Marshall]\n brother, \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Doctor Louis Marshall\"\u003eDoctor\n [Louis] Marshall\u003c/abbr\u003e, in Kentucky;\n discusses dissatisfaction of Virginian\n politicians with the Supreme Court's opinion\n on the Bank question; \"we shall be denounced\n bitterly in the papers... and we shall\n undoubtedly be condemned as a pack of\n consolidating aristocratics;\" mentions\n unexpected and long unheard of financial\n distress of Richmond merchants.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of ALS. 1 page. Also\n including Pst of ALS. 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExtracted from a letter of Joseph Story's\n to John Marshall describing a $1000\n nail-making machine invented by Mr. [?]\n Perkins, and used extensively in the\n Amesbury Factory near Salem, Massachusetts;\n also describes two different, less expensive\n models patented by Mr. [?] Reed [?], and\n discusses arrangements for their sale and\n delivery.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses an error in his published\n manuscript [of a court decision?] which he\n [John Marshall] wishes Mr. [ ] Bronson to\n correct.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of ALS. 1 page. Including\n Pst of ALS. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses the gross misrepresentations\n the Democratic-Republicans have attributed\n to the Court's opinion in the Bank case in\n order to excite ferment in the masses; asks\n his advice on a case in Admiralty Court,\n that the \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eLittle\n Charles\u003c/title\u003e, libeled for violating the\n 1808 Embargo Act.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIf the publication of his [John Marshall]\n work has not yet commenced, he would rather\n have the signature changed to \"A\n Constitutionalist\"; the letters of\n Amphyction and of Hampden have had more\n influence in the country than in Richmond;\n hopes some respectable legislators will\n refute them.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eQuestions him [Joseph Story] about an\n admiralty case concerning the hypothecation\n of a vessel belonging to the port of\n Richmond; discusses legal principles of\n hypothecation in general in the United\n States; does not think that a piece in the\n Boston papers should be republished, Mr. [?]\n Wheaton's appendix; leaves the opinion in\n the militia case for him [Joseph Story] to\n write.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses the legal principles of\n hypothecation and maritime law as he [Joseph\n Story] sees them in regards to a case in New\n York, and concludes that the chief-question\n is \"whether the ports of the different\n states are to be deemed foreign ports in\n respect to the rights of the hypothecation\n or of implied lien\"; in his [Joseph Story]\n district, as well as in South Carolina,\n Maryland, Pennsylvania, and New York, they\n are; he [Joseph Story] \"is open to argument\n and will follow in a better path. And as the\n advancement of the law, and not merely of\n our private opinions should be the great\n ambition of all judges, I am quite content\n to yield to the judgement of others.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMentions a trial at Richmond for piracy\n and discusses the lack of international law\n regarding the same; writes of his\n subscription to Mr. Bronson's \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eGazette of the United\n States\u003c/title\u003ewhich has become the \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eUnion\u003c/title\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses constitutional issues involving\n piracy, the slave trade, and the Supreme Court;\n mentions \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Littleton Waller Tazewell\"\u003e\n [Littleton Waller] Tazewell\u003c/abbr\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas not formed an opinion of the case which\n was remanded to the circuit court of\n Pennsylvania; congratulates him on the prospect\n of a full docket in \n \u003cabbr expan=\"New Jersey\"\u003e[New] Jersey\u003c/abbr\u003eand\n upon his empty one in North Carolina; he called\n on Mr. Blair, the President of the Bible\n Society, who says he [Bushrod Washington] was a\n permanent member of the society and in arrears\n for the years 1816-1819; was frozen on the \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eRosaline\u003c/title\u003e, has\n scarcely thawed out.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHopes none of the papers of George\n Washington have miscarried; sent the last ones\n to him [Bushrod Washington] by a coal vessel of\n Alexandria; has employed a person to copy the\n pre-Revolutionary letters of General\n Washington, and he [John Marshall] will himself\n copy the military letters in his possession\n after he [Bushrod Washington] informs him in\n which volume they will be published; he [John\n Marshall] will also proceed to copy the letters\n written between the close of the war and the\n adoption of the constitution, and has retained\n no others.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of ALS. 1 page. Including Pst\n of ALS. 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEncloses an affidavit stating that he [John\n Marshall] lost the certification meant for \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Thomas Marshall\"\u003eT[homas?]\n Marshall\u003c/abbr\u003eand asks him [Bushrod\n Washington] to send from Philadelphia a bond to\n be executed; has received from Mr. Ward of\n Salem a copy of a letter written by \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Mr. William Fairfax\"\u003eMr. W[illia]m\n Fairfax\u003c/abbr\u003eto Capt. Clarke of Salem dated\n Belvoir 22d. February 1749, which states that\n \"Major Washington [has] just returned from\n London whither he lately went to get his\n arrears of pay \u0026amp; be put on the\n establishment of half pay...\" concludes that\n this cannot be George Washington; poses\n questions about George Washington's genealogy;\n asks him [Bushrod Washington] to talk with the\n editor of Langhornes' Plutarch while in\n Philadelphia about an anecdote concerning\n George Washington selling his old charger.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of ALS. 1 page. Including Pst\n of ALS. 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses Mr. Moorehead's purchase of Mr.\n Johnson's land in Fauquier County; wheat and\n other crops are doing well.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes being thrown by a horse; will\n bring the letters they agreed to copy to\n Washington; wishes him to speak again with Mr.\n Wayne about a second edition of the life of \n \u003cabbr expan=\"George Washington\"\u003e[George]\n Washington\u003c/abbr\u003e; recommends that \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Mr. Mason Locke Weems\"\u003eMr. [Mason\n Locke] Weems\u003c/abbr\u003ehave a subscription paper\n for the letters and life at the same time;\n thinks they should reduce the charges on the\n life to half a dollar per volume, then the\n second volume might be sold for two dollars a\n volume.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHopes his [Bushrod Washington] health will\n improve so he can come visit at the end of the\n month so they can deliver opinions on various\n cases including the one from Virginia \"which\n has exerted so much commotion in our\n legislature\" [a case involving an act of\n Congress allowing a lottery in Washington, D.C.\n with ticket sales in Virginia contrary to\n Virginia law. See JK/159l/V5/Rare Book\n (Virginia)/].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA letter of \n \u003cabbr expan=\"James Keith Marshall\"\u003eJames [Keith\n Marshall]'s\u003c/abbr\u003einformed him [John Marshall]\n of her return from Chicahominy; hopes that the\n celebrations of the 22nd did not disturb her\n too much; \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Judge Bushrod Washington\"\u003eJudge\n [Bushrod] Washington\u003c/abbr\u003eis not well; he\n [John Marshall] is very busy at Court; dines\n out frequently and eats too much; does not\n attend the continual gay parties in Washington.\n 2 pages. ALS. Including ALS on verso from John\n Marshall to his son [James Keith Marshall],\n asking about the health of Jacob, one of the\n slaves; tells him to purchase as much clover\n seed as he can if he does not get the money\n from [?] Smith.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding Pst of ALS. 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHopes his health was not injured by his\n traveling to Philadelphia to perform his\n circuit duties; mentions case in his circuit\n involving merchants indebted to the U.S. on\n duty bonds; recommends the writings of Algernon\n Sidney.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsks his opinion of legalities of a case\n concerning insolvency and priority of payment\n to creditors; the Supreme Court opinion in the\n Lottery case virulently assaulted in the\n newspapers, especially by Algernon Sidney in\n the \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eEnquirer\u003c/title\u003ewho is\n \"supposed to be the champion of the state\n rights.. .[but] really is the champion of\n dismemberment;\" is anxious to hear if his\n [Joseph Story] and \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Daniel Webster\"\u003e[Daniel]\n Webster's\u003c/abbr\u003eamendment to the Massachusetts\n constitution was approved by the people or\n not.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses legal principles of partnership,\n joint property and the priority of the payment\n of debts under English and American bankruptcy\n laws; writes of the federal government; reports\n on the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention;\n will send on the next vessel for Richmond some\n Salem fish and a recipe on how to cook\n them.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThanks him for his opinion on the case on\n which he [John Marshall] consulted him; has\n enclosed the letter from \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Mr. James Madison\"\u003eMr. [James]\n Madison\u003c/abbr\u003eto Genl. Washington which he\n [John Marshall] had selected last winter but\n forgot to send; discusses the legal matter of\n inland and foreign bills and hypothecation\n relating to the New York case.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TyC of ALS. 1 page. Including Pst\n of ALS. 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIs grateful for his expressions of esteem;\n hopes the harmony of the bench will never be\n disturbed; discusses \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Thomas Jefferson\"\u003e[Thomas]\n Jefferson's\u003c/abbr\u003eand \n \u003cabbr expan=\"James Madison\"\u003e[James]\n Madison's\u003c/abbr\u003edoubts of the Supreme Court as\n the ultimate arbiter of the constitutional\n questions; comments upon Jefferson's character\n and influence over the people; encloses\n Algernon Sidney's essays with their weak\n argument and violent language; in the Virginian\n newspapers \"not a pen is drawn in support of\n the sound principles of the constitution of the\n Union... I look elsewhere for safety.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas received the fish and will cook it\n according to instructions; discusses Mr. [?]\n Hall and his intended publication of Algernon\n Sidney's essays and asks if he [Joseph Story]\n can prevent it; Mr. [?] Caedwell has not yet\n sent the volume of the debates of the\n Massachusetts Constitutional Convention;\n discusses the designs of the\n Democratic-Republicans in attacking the Supreme\n Court; questions him about a case involving\n William McKinly, a tax collector, and his\n depositions.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsks him to join him at dinner on Tuesday at\n 4 o'clock.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMakes arrangements for his [Littleton Waller\n Tazewell's] deposition to be taken on 23 May;\n if \n \u003cabbr expan=\"General Robert Barraud Taylor\"\u003e\n General [Robert Barraud] Taylor\u003c/abbr\u003eand Mr.\n [?] Blair are out of town, send for magistrates\n and have the necessary steps taken.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas received the President's message to\n Congress concerning internal improvements, \"a\n question which very much divides the opinions\n of intelligent men;\" \"a general power over\n internal improvements, if to be exercised by\n the Union, would certainly be cumbersome to the\n government, \u0026amp; of no utility to the people.\n But to the extent you recommend, it would be\n productive of no mischief, and of great good;\"\n he [John Marshall] despairs that such a measure\n will be adopted.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of ALS. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas found in the Journal of the House of\n Delegates that the bill for confiscating Lord\n Fairfax's estate passed in January 1786, but\n was defeated in the Senate; discusses the role\n of the Supreme Court in deciding cases relating\n to treaties; will not be at Happy Creek before\n 6 August; will also visit Cumberland, Mr.\n Colston's and maybe Bath.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of ALS. 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGrants power of attorney to him [Benjamin\n Watkyns [sic] Leigh] to make or endorse any\n notes given by Edward Colston, James Marshall\n or \n \u003cabbr expan=\"James Markham Marshall\"\u003eJames\n M[arkham] Marshall\u003c/abbr\u003efor the purpose of\n paying a debt to the Bank of the United States\n due from Nimrod Farrow or from the estate of \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Turner Dixon\"\u003eTurner [?]\n Dixon\u003c/abbr\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsked Mr. [?] Williams about the information\n he [Jaquelin B. Harrie] desired; he [Williams]\n wrote that he gave his letter to the delegate\n from Florida, who has yet to answer it.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of ALS. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses his trip from Richmond and the\n rainy weather; did not find Mr. [?] Skinker at\n home, so arrived last night at his friend's \n \u003cabbr expan=\"General Blackwell\"\u003eGeneral [?]\n Blackwell's\u003c/abbr\u003e, who is almost blind; Tom\n [Thomas Marshall] was there earlier\n electioneering; the election will be closer\n than he [John Marshall] had originally\n thought.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of ALS. 1 page. Also including\n Pst of ALS. 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMet his son, \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Edward Carrington Marshall\"\u003eEdward\n C[arrington] Marshall\u003c/abbr\u003e; introduced him to\n several gentlemen in Boston, and recommended\n him to the President of Harvard College; made\n arrangements for him [Edward Carrington\n Marshall] to live in Cambridge and to be\n tutored until rooms at the College are assigned\n after commencement; discusses his [Edward\n Carrington Marshall] expenses; takes great\n pleasure in aiding him in all measures;\n discusses his [John Marshall] latest decision\n on the Cashier of the Branch Bank of the United\n States; is anxious about the appointment of \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Supreme Court Judge Henry B. Livingston\"\u003e\n [Supreme Court] Judge [Henry B.]\n Livingston's\u003c/abbr\u003esuccessor.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThanks him for his friendly attentions to\n his [John Marshall's] son, [Edward Carrington\n Marshall]; gives his opinion of the case of the\n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eBank of the United\n States v. Dandridge\u003c/title\u003e; alarmed at the\n rumored successor of their \"much lamented\n friend\" [Supreme Court Justice Henry B.\n Livingston].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses libels against his father, John\n Lowell, and against himself; encloses letters\n to editors printed in local papers in\n defense.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding NCls. 6 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceived his letters of 25 and 28 October\n and was astonished to learn that he feels he\n [John Marshall] deliberately and unnecessarily\n \"altered expressions which would be construed\n into the imputation of a crime..., against a\n gentleman...\"; there was no evidence in the\n cases decision that his [John Lowell] testimony\n was disregarded or discredited-- \"the opinion\n speaks for itself.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBrother \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Bushrod Washington\"\u003e[Bushrod]\n Washington\u003c/abbr\u003ehad to adjourn the court at\n Philadelphia because of his illness; discusses\n a case on his [John Marshall's] circuit\n concerning the American ship, \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003ePilot\u003c/title\u003e, captured\n by pirates and later recaptured by a squadron\n under \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Commodore David Porter\"\u003eCommodore\n [David] Porter\u003c/abbr\u003e; comments upon the\n extreme bitterness of \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Mr. John Adams\"\u003eMr. [John]\n Adams\u003c/abbr\u003e, whom he still respects, and the\n publication of some of his correspondence.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceived the President's message to\n Congress, and thanks him for his mark of polite\n attention; he [John Marshall] too thinks that\n \"we cannot look on the present state of the\n world with indifference.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of ALS. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThanks him for the report of the Secretary\n of the Treasury.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWas uneasy that she heard of his accident\n before his letter reached her; his fall has\n kept him from court longer than he had\n expected; feels pain only when he moves;\n doctors say he is mending faster than they had\n expected; is treated with a great deal of\n kindness and attention; wives of the cabinet\n members call on him; passes the long hours of\n the night by thinking of her and their early\n life together.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding Pst of ALS. 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWill soon return to Richmond by steamboat;\n makes arrangements to have his servant, Oby,\n meet him at the dock to carry his portmanteau;\n is not able to use his arm; was surprised to\n see \n \u003cabbr expan=\"John Marshall and Elizabeth (Alexander) Marshall\"\u003e\n John and Elizabeth [(Alexander)\n Marshall]\u003c/abbr\u003e, who were in town because the\n boat on which they traveled was being repaired,\n and they were making their way to Baltimore by\n stage.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding Pst of ALS. 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMissed seeing him at Hanover Court House on\n Monday, presumably because of the cloudiness of\n the weather; will be there next court day to\n meet him unless it is inconvenient, in which\n case he [Tom] should let him [John Marshall]\n know immediately.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas just finished reading the copy of his\n \"Dissertation on the Nature and Extent of the\n Jurisdiction of the Courts of the United\n States,\" which he sent to him [John Marshall];\n thanks him for the flattering manner in which\n he discusses some of his [John Marshall]\n opinions.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThanks for sending a copy of his message to\n Congress; regrets that he [Monroe] is retiring,\n but congratulates him on his presidency.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of ALS. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReached Washington yesterday and paid his\n accustomed visit to the President; he [John\n Marshall] occupies the same room as last year;\n neither \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Judge William Johnson\"\u003eJudge\n [William] Johnson\u003c/abbr\u003enor \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Joseph Story\"\u003e[Joseph]\n Story\u003c/abbr\u003ehas arrived, and \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Thomas Todd\"\u003e[Thomas]\n Todd\u003c/abbr\u003eis close to death; the roads were so\n good for the winter, he was glad he did not\n take the steamboat; rode from Hanover\n Courthouse to Fredericksburg with a Mrs.\n (Booth) Stone; dined with his aunt [?] Keith on\n Sunday; his nephew, William Marshall, visited\n him on Saturday; hopes that Mr. [?] Picket has\n filled the ice house already.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding Pst of AL. 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses presidential election of 1824;\n ascribes it to the letters of [?] Kremer and to\n Mr. [?] Vanraensaeller's reluctant last-minute\n vote for [John Quincy] Adams; speculates about\n the Cabinet; including Mr. [?] Crawford's\n refusal of the Treasury, and \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Henry Clay\"\u003e[Henry]\n Clay's\u003c/abbr\u003erumored acceptance of the State\n Department.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of ALS. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas received letters from his son and from\n his nephew, George [?], and has learned of the\n marriage of his [John Marshall] nephew, Edward\n Colston, who has moved to Honeywood, [Berkeley\n County, Virginia]; asks her to inform Mr. [?]\n Cole that he [John Marshall] has received his\n new black suit, and that \n \u003cabbr expan=\"George Kremer\"\u003e[George]\n Kremer\u003c/abbr\u003ewill soon print \"a most scurrilous\n piece of abuse against \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Henry Clay\"\u003e[Henry] Clay\u003c/abbr\u003e[an\n anonymous letter in the \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eColumbia\n Observer\u003c/title\u003eaccusing him of bargaining with\n John Quincy Adams to give his support in the\n presidential election in return for the office\n of Secretary of State]; her [Mary Willis Ambler\n Marshall] cousin, Mrs. [?] Walker, thanked him\n for his check and the subscription raised for\n her by the members of Congress.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding Pst of AL. 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsks him to accept a copy of his\n [Marshall's] colonial history; congratulations\n him on the successful termination of his\n political career.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIs much honored by his election to the\n Bunker Hill Monument Association and asks what\n his membership will entail.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas received his letters and documents\n stating his [Monroe's] claims on the U.S.;\n expects that he [Monroe] will receive as much\n as has ever been allowed to others for similar\n services.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of ALS. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThanks her for her letter recommending [?]\n Caldwell, but he has already pledged himself to\n another person seeking office.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of ALS. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn response to his [John Marshall's]\n requests in his last letter, he [John Sergeant]\n is enclosing copies of Mr. [?] Giles' speech\n found in Dunlap and Claypoole's 16 December\n 1796 paper and in the \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eAurora\u003c/title\u003eof the\n 15th sources located at the [?] Library; and\n germane to his biography of Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThanks him for a copy of his [John\n Marshall's] history of the English colonies\n of North America which Joseph Story\n delivered a few weeks earlier; quotes Lord\n Kames [?] from his \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Gentleman\n Farmer\u003c/title\u003e(1779); \"I disregard the\n present rebellion of our Americans; for they\n will soon be reduced to obedience;\"\n discusses present westward movement of the\n American population and predicts a new\n western confederacy of the movement of the\n national capital westward in the next\n generation; comments upon his [John\n Marshall's] statements on slavery,\n mentioning \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Colonel Edward Carrington\"\u003e\n Colonel [Edward] Carrington's\u003c/abbr\u003eand \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Mr. Thomas Jefferson\"\u003eMr.\n [Thomas] Jefferson's\u003c/abbr\u003eviews on\n miscegenation and the Colonization Society's\n efforts; discusses Georgia's \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Governor George M. Troup\"\u003e\n Governor [George M.] Troup's\u003c/abbr\u003edetested\n views on the slaves and Creek Indians, which\n seem to be held by most Georgians, who would\n defy the authority of the Union if they\n dared; that authority rests on \"the purity,\n the intellegence and the firmness\" of the\n Supreme Court; hopes he [John Marshall] long\n remains at the head.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas read \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Mr. William Branch Giles\"\u003eMr.\n [William Branch] Giles'\u003c/abbr\u003elatest article\n in the \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eRichmond\n Enquirer\u003c/title\u003eon John Quincy Adams, which\n attributes his [John Quincy Adams's] \"past\n conversion to \n \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003e\n Jeffersonism\u003c/emph\u003e\" to \" \n \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003ehis own personal\n promotion and aggrandizement;\u003c/emph\u003e\" Giles\n claims that Adams' message indicated his\n intentions to introduce unlimited powers\n into the government, but he [Timothy\n Pickering] disagrees; discusses Adams'\n policies regarding internal improvements, a\n national university, and the promotion of\n agriculture, all of which Washington\n recommended, and their constitutionality;\n discusses Giles, his character, and his\n political ambitions; writes of James\n Monroe's and William Pinckney's treaty with\n Great Britain and their letter to Congress,\n Monroe's bid for the Presidency, and his\n subsequent reconciliation with Jefferson;\n mentions Secretary of the State Robert\n Smith's correspondence with the British\n Minister [?] Jackson; his resignation, and\n published defense; discusses the death of\n Virginian U.S. District Court Judge Cyrus\n Griffin and the appointment of his successor\n John Tyler, ex-Governor of Virginia; which\n was made to make room for Monroe as\n Governor; Monroe was appointed to the State\n Department, \"the vestibule to the\n President's Palace,\" when Smith resigned;\n discusses Jefferson's motives for not laying\n the treaty with Great Britain before\n Congress; concludes with Joseph Hopkinson's\n thoughts on Jefferson, Madison, and\n Monroe.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLeft Alexandria for Washington a day\n early because the weather was good for\n traveling; he, \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Bushrod Washington\"\u003e[Bushrod]\n Washington\u003c/abbr\u003e, and \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Gabriel Duval\"\u003e[Gabriel]\n Duval\u003c/abbr\u003eawait the arrival of their\n brother \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Justice Joseph Story\"\u003eJustices\n [Joseph] Story\u003c/abbr\u003eand \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Jutice Smith Thompson\"\u003e[Smith]\n Thompson\u003c/abbr\u003e; Judge Johnson went by way\n of Norfolk and will not arrive till\n Wednesday or Thursday; \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Judge Thomas Todd\"\u003eJudge\n [Thomas] Todd\u003c/abbr\u003eis unable to make the\n journey; discusses his journey and health:\n \"I am under the persecution of the\n infuenza;\" will open the court and wait on\n the President tomorrow.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding Pst of ALS. 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses his daily routine and his\n health; \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Judge Joseph Story\"\u003e[Judge\n Joseph] Story\u003c/abbr\u003earrived today; he was\n delayed a week in Philadelphia by influenza;\n discusses a loan of $200 to Tom [Thomas\n Marshall, his son]; has received three\n invitations for dinner parties this week;\n discusses the gaiety of the Washington\n social scene; jests about Lucy Fisher [his\n niece] marrying [Dr. Daniel Norborne Norton]\n and persuading him to run for Congress.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cabbr expan=\"John Marshall\"\u003eJohn [Marshall,\n his son]\u003c/abbr\u003epassed through the city, but\n he did not have a chance to see him; was\n pleased to hear that she was well, expecting\n \"the uncommon warmth of the season had\n relaxed your system so as to distress your\n feelings;\" he enjoys his usual health; \"was\n at a very great crowd at \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Mrs. John Quincy Adams\"\u003eMrs.\n [John Quincy] Adams'\u003c/abbr\u003edrawing room;\"\n dined yesterday with \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Mr. John Randolph of Roanoke\"\u003e\n Mr. [John] Randolph [of Roanoke]\u003c/abbr\u003ewho\n is as much engaged in party politics as he\n has always been.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding Pst of ALS. 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCongratulates him on his good health;\n gives his thoughts on Southern slavery;\n mentions Georgia's Governor [George M.\n Troup] and the treaty with the Creeks;\n discusses \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Mr. William Branch Giles\"\u003eMr.\n [William Branch] Giles\u003c/abbr\u003e; thanks him\n for his recollections of the events of the\n last twenty years.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas received his letter expressing his\n interest in the position of the clerk of the\n Supreme Court; the applicants are numerous\n and worthy; recalls their former\n acquaintance, and is confident in his\n competence, but wants to make such an\n important appointment \"without any\n pre-engagements.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReplies to his letter recommending Mr.\n [?] Randall for the vacant office in the\n Clerkship of the Supreme Court; discusses\n his feelings regarding the appointment; has\n been having trouble with famine and\n drought.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses marriage arrangements of his\n son \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Edward Carrington Marshall\"\u003e\n Edward [Carrington Marshall]\u003c/abbr\u003ewith the\n Judge's daughter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eApologizes for his last letter of 15\n September 1826; did not realize that he\n [Fay] was opposed to Edward Carrington\n Marshall's marriage to his [Fay's] daughter;\n \"I hope Edward has received notice of your\n decision... It will be [a] kindness to\n awaken him as soon as possible from the\n dreams of happiness in which he has been too\n long indulging.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas finally discovered the letters in the\n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eAurora\u003c/title\u003efrom 23\n October to 5 November 1795 written by the\n \"Calm Observer\" relating to the charge of\n illegal payment of the President's salary\n and the replies thereto by \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Alexander Hamilton\"\u003e[Alexander]\n Hamilton\u003c/abbr\u003eand \n \u003cabbr expan=\"O. Wolcott\"\u003eO.[?]\n Wolcott\u003c/abbr\u003e; these were not written by \n \u003cabbr expan=\"William Branch Giles\"\u003e[William\n Branch] Giles\u003c/abbr\u003e; \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Judge Bushrod Washington\"\u003eJudge\n [Bushrod] Washington\u003c/abbr\u003ehad to break up\n his court because of ill-health.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas received his letter by Mr. [?]\n Doddridge; apologizes for any inconvenience\n which may be caused by the disposal of the\n letters of recommendation which the\n recipient sent by Mr. [?] Rowan and Colonel\n [?] Johnson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses legal principles involved in\n the Fairfax lands case.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of ALS. 4 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas seen in the papers discussions between\n his brother Johnson [?] and him [Timothy\n Pickering] respecting Count Pulaske [Pulaski]\n and the Battle of Germantown; \"with the\n exception of Judge [?] Peters, yourself, \u0026amp; \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Mr. Wolcott\"\u003eMr. [?]\n Wolcot[t]\u003c/abbr\u003eI can scarcely find any person\n who was conspicuous on the great theatre of our\n country when I first began to mix in public\n affairs;\" asks if he will travel south to\n Washington; discusses George Washington and his\n firmness of character.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEncloses a check on the bank of Winchester\n for $600 to be endorsed to Mr. [?] Smith; was\n surprised that the sale of the land was $200\n less than he thought; Alexander Marshall\n informed him [John Marshall] that he settled\n $200 which he owed him with Mr. Smith; finished\n cutting his wheat and rye last week; his corn\n has suffered from the cold wet spring and now\n from drought; discusses weather and crop\n pests.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding Pst of ALS. 3 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses the science of agriculture and\n whether or not it should be taught at a\n university.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas read the review which will be published\n in the forthcoming January 1828 edition of the \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eNorth American\n Review\u003c/title\u003eof his [John Marshall's] \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eHistory of the\n Colonies\u003c/title\u003e; encloses a copy of it; hopes\n to meet him in January and introduce Mrs. Story\n to him.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas received his flattering letter and\n biography of him and warmly expresses his\n gratitude; accommodations for Mrs. Story may be\n had at Mr. [?] Rapine's in Washington;\n discusses the present contest for the\n Presidency; fears that \"our constitution is not\n to be so long lived as its real friends have\n hoped.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThanks him for a copy of his speech on\n \"retrenchment and reform;\" intended to call\n on him, but the pressure of official duties\n and the indolence of age have prevented\n it.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of ALS. 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMust decline his invitation to be his\n companion on the \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003e\n Potomac\u003c/title\u003ebecause of his ill health;\n Mr. [?] Sheppherd has given a good account\n of \"our Jacobin Banker's Clerk\" [?];\n discusses Sheppherd's and the clerk's\n lives.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBegs him to accept his portrait painted\n by \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Mr. Chester Harding\"\u003eMr.\n [Chester] Harding\u003c/abbr\u003ein Washington as a\n token of his sincere and affectionate\n friendship; will not send it to Richmond\n until \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Mr. Horatio Greenough\"\u003eMr.\n [Horatio] Greenough\u003c/abbr\u003ecasts his bust;\n enjoyed a pleasant trip from Washington to\n Richmond where he has seen none but his\n family since his return; the spirit of party\n is extremely bitter, but he plans to leave\n for the upper country; had one of his\n [Joseph Story's] fish yesterday; received\n news from Mr. [?] McGruder of the loss of\n his [John Marshall's] sortout.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTakes the liberty to write him; regrets\n that it was necessary for him [John\n Marshall] to announce publicly his feelings\n on the election, because it will not subject\n him to the abuse of the partisans.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDid not have a chance to answer \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Mr. Chester Harding\"\u003eMr.\n [Chester] Harding's\u003c/abbr\u003eletter asking what\n should be done with his [John Marshall's]\n portrait; if he [Chester Harding] is in\n Boston, have him deliver it to you [Joseph\n Story]; asks him [Joseph Story] to take care\n of it till he [John Marshall] can have it\n and his bust sent to Richmond; discusses how\n the \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003e\n Marylander\u003c/title\u003emisquoted him on the\n coming election; an epidemic has prevailed\n extensively in Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas received his letter and is grateful\n for his kind words; although the still burnt\n Kentucky Whiskey is nauseous to my palate,\n \"I can yet enjoy the aroma of an exquisite\n glass of Madeira, or Paxasete, or Burgundy\n and I doubt whether my head would have been\n more affected by a bottle of Clos Von gedt,\n capped with another of such [silvery?]\n Champagne, than by your truly kind\n note.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses the recipient's proposed\n amendment to a bill before the House of\n Representatives concerning the U.S. Circuit\n Court System.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter declining their honor of joining\n the Richmond and Manchester Sabbath School\n in a 4th of July procession, not because he\n does not believe in the principles inspiring\n it, but because he must leave town due to\n Mrs. Marshall's feeble health; (the letter\n was probably written and signed by a\n secretary).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCannot satisfy his request to send him\n letters with autographs of the Virginian\n signers of the Declaration of Independence\n as they have not been preserved or contain\n private communications; has read and enjoyed\n the sermons he sent; discusses the nature of\n church and state in post-Revolutionary\n Virginia; gratified by his [William B.\n Sprague's] sermon on intemperance and gives\n his [John Marshall's] views on the\n subject.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses a land case concerning Mrs. [?]\n Clarke and Mr. [?] Swan, and Mr. [?]\n Pollard; have no further communications with\n Swan as \"he has no idea of...frank dealing\";\n Mr. [?] Fiske wrote that he can lend money\n for Mrs. [?] Carrington; please send down\n his [John Marshall's] ponies with Charles\n Smith or Mr. [?] Colston.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas just received Mr. [?] Triplett's\n letter and is willing to allow him 20%\n commission on the money he may collect from\n the estate of Mr. [?] Davies [?]; discusses\n arrangements for drawing money on his [John\n Marshall's] account; asks him to pay costs\n incurred in the execution of the above\n matter; discusses election of \n \u003cabbr expan=\"General Andrew Jackson\"\u003eGeneral\n [Andrew] Jackson\u003c/abbr\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMakes arrangements to pay [ ] $1000 to\n Swan for a land purchase.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas received his letter concerning news\n of the birth of \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Margaret(Lewis) Marshall\"\u003e\n Margaret's [(Lewis)\n Marshall]'s\u003c/abbr\u003enephew; mentions health of\n his family, including the children's\n whooping cough; prices in the Alex[andri]a\n flour market and how the dry weather is\n affecting crops; writes of his own\n agricultural efforts, including the\n operation of a large roller for his corn\n fields; has been unable to send down the\n horses; will attend a sale at Westover on\n Mr. [?] Lewis's request; Mr. Lewis, Mr. [?]\n Coiston, and \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Mr. Charles B. Smith\"\u003eMr.\n Cha[rle]s B. Smith\u003c/abbr\u003eare not able to\n take the horses to him [John Marshall] or to\n Aunt [?] Carrington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of ALS. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas finished reading his centennial\n discourse on the first settlement of Salem;\n was touched by his portrayal of the story of\n the Indians; especially enjoyed the passages\n respecting the Lady Arabella Johnson; read\n with interest his sketch of the recently\n deceased \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Robert Trimble\"\u003e[Robert]\n Trimble\u003c/abbr\u003e, brother Supreme Court\n Justice; congratulates him on the\n appointment of \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Joseph Hopkinson\"\u003e[Joseph]\n Hopkinson\u003c/abbr\u003e[to the Eastern District of\n Pennsylvania District Court Judgeship].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe case will not be finished till\n Saturday and he [John Marshall] will not be\n home till Tuesday; had a pleasant sail down\n the river to Norfolk; boards in a very\n agreeable house.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding Pst of ALS. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRequests him to purchase two more copies\n of \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Joseph Story\"\u003e[Joseph]\n Story's\u003c/abbr\u003ethree volume [ \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003ePublic and General\n Statutes passed by the Congress of the\n United States, 1789-1827\u003c/title\u003e] for the\n Supreme Court.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe sick [Supreme Court] judges have\n arrived; he continues his morning walks;\n they dined with the President and \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Mrs. John Quincy Adams\"\u003eMrs.\n [John Quincy] Adams\u003c/abbr\u003eon Friday;\n discusses their feelings on \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Andrew Jackson\"\u003e[Andrew]\n Jackson's\u003c/abbr\u003eelection; Jackson is\n expected in the city in a fortnight;\n mentions Mrs. Jackson's death; discusses his\n [John Marshall's] dinner invitations; tell\n Mr. [?] Call [Cole?] the secretaries are\n sick, and \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Henry Clay\"\u003e[Henry]\n Clay\u003c/abbr\u003ecaught a cold by attending the\n colonization society; discusses the upcoming\n inauguration.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding Pst of ALS. 2 pages. Also\n including TCy of ALS. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEncloses a letter to be sent to Mr. [?]\n Payne; imagines that Oby has carried out the\n clover seed from the cellar; received news\n from his son \n \u003cabbr expan=\"James Keith Marshall\"\u003eJames\n [Keith Marshall]\u003c/abbr\u003ethat she was not\n well; has written to his son in a feeble\n attempt to console him [Thomas Marshall on\n the death of his wife Margaret]; receive\n news from \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Jaquelin Marshall\"\u003eJaquelin\n [Marshall]\u003c/abbr\u003eof his new son, Jaquelin\n Jr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of ALS. 1 page. Including\n Pst of ALS. 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas had no news of her and is worried;\n discusses her delicate health; received news\n from his son \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Edward Carrington Marshall\"\u003e\n Edward [Carrington Marshall]\u003c/abbr\u003ewho\n grieves for his brother's [Thomas's] loss;\n received a serious and very religious letter\n from Thomas, who is much occupied with his\n children and superintends his son John's\n education.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of ALS. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnswers his letter of 21 February; is\n pleased that he has turned to religion and\n reason in handling his grief in losing his\n wife; is glad that he has kept John at hand\n [instead of sending him to Princeton]; an\n epidemic has hit the University [of\n Virginia] at Charlottesville, and a son of\n General [?] Jones is dying of the fever;\n this city [Washington] is full of\n office-sickness; discusses the spoils\n system.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas received his letter enclosing a copy\n of \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Judge Joseph Hopkinson\"\u003eJudge\n [Joseph] Hopkinson's\u003c/abbr\u003ecommission; will\n attend Virginia's constitutional convention\n as a delegate; explains his feelings\n regarding his election to the convention and\n to its being convened.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas received his letter accompanying his\n anniversary address to the Suffolk bar and \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Mr. John Brazer\"\u003eMr. [John]\n Brazer's\u003c/abbr\u003ediscourse at the interment of\n \u003cabbr expan=\"Dr. Edward Holyoke\"\u003eDr.\n [Edward] Holyoke\u003c/abbr\u003e; advises him against\n precipitous fulfillment of the publication\n requirements for his Dane Professorship [at\n Harvard]; his attention has been turned to\n the two great cases before the Supreme\n Court; place your thoughts of them on paper;\n \u003cabbr expan=\"Mr. Smith Thompson\"\u003eMr. [Smith]\n Thompson\u003c/abbr\u003ewill look into the New York\n case; discusses the matters which will come\n before the Virginia constitutional,\n convention: property qualifications, senate\n apportioning, basis of representation,\n freehold suffrage.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAfter much hesitation, he must complain\n to him about his barking dog which has\n distressed his [John Marshall's] wife who is\n in very poor health; is extremely apologetic\n over causing any inconvenience.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding Pst of ALS. 1 page.\n (Incomplete).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas read his discourses pronounced as\n Dane Professor of Law at Harvard; is\n impressed with his teaching efforts: \"Our\n southern youths would stumble at the\n threshhold [of your most appalling course]..\n .You yankees have more perseverence\"; no\n hopes that he lives to read his lectures;\n still regrets being a member of Virginia's\n constitutional convention.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWill be unable to accept his invitation\n as he is leaving town on Saturday and will\n be busy until then.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccepts his election as \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Bushrod Washington\"\u003e[Bushrod]\n Washington's\u003c/abbr\u003esuccessor' in some\n honorary position [President of the American\n Colonization Society?].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas finished reading his 1809 Fourth of\n July oration and his December 1828 speech\n \"on the constitutionality of the Tariff and\n the true nature of state government;\" his\n speech in the Senate was well-argued: \"Is it\n possible that South Carolina can withstand\n so powerful an appeal to... her patriotism..\n .and her real interest?\"; is flattered by\n the notice he took of the author of the Life\n of Washington [John Marshall] in his\n notes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWrites of his son \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Edward C. Marshall\"\u003eEdward [C.\n Marshall]\u003c/abbr\u003ewho is a proud new father;\n dined with the President [Andrew Jackson]\n and his [Andrew Jackson's] niece \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Mrs. Emily (Donelson) Jackson\"\u003e\n Mrs. [Andrew Jackson] [Emily]\n Donelson\u003c/abbr\u003e; saw Tom Francis a week ago;\n \u003cabbr expan=\"Judges William Johnson\"\u003eJudges\n [William] Johnson\u003c/abbr\u003eand \n \u003cabbr expan=\"John McLean\"\u003e[John]\n McLean\u003c/abbr\u003edo not board with the other\n judges; \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Judge Smith Thompson\"\u003eJudge\n [Smith] Thompson\u003c/abbr\u003eis sick; complains\n about not receiving his rent from his\n tenants Mr. [?] Sprigg on the Potomac and\n another at Anderson's Bottoms.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of ALS. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses the dinner parties which he and\n his brother Justices have attended; the\n Secretary of State [Martin van Buren] gave\n one for the new bride of the President's\n [Andrew Jackson's] nephew [?]; he dined\n yesterday with the British Minister; the\n influenza is as prevalent as it was in\n Richmond; \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Judge Gabriel Duval\"\u003eJudge\n [Gabriel] Duval\u003c/abbr\u003eleft town because of a\n relapse of his son; \n \u003cabbr expan=\"James Kieth Marshall\"\u003eJames\n [Kieth Marshall, his son]\u003c/abbr\u003ewrote three\n days past about his brother \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Edward Carrington Marshall\"\u003e\n Edward [Carrington Marshall]\u003c/abbr\u003e;\n mentions Washington's Birthday Celebrations\n effect on her.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding Pst of ALS. 3 pages. Including\n TCy of ALS. 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHeard from his granddaughter that she\n [Mary Willis Ambler Marshall] became\n indisposed upon her return from\n Chickahominy; has received a letter from his\n son James who sold his horse for $l000[?]; \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Mr. Joseph Story\"\u003eMr. [Joseph]\n Story\u003c/abbr\u003e, who has been laid up for a\n week under the doctor's hand has returned to\n court.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding Pst of ALS. 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses his morning routine; dined\n yesterday with Mr. [?] Swann; \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Mr. Joseph Story\"\u003eMr. [Joseph]\n Story\u003c/abbr\u003eis still not well enough to go\n out; talked about his nephew William [?]\n with Mr. [?] Mercer; Tom Francis took a\n stage for Kentucky; saw Mr. [?] Coleman,\n husband of his niece Lucy [?], who is a\n strong Jackson man; his [John Marshall's]\n nephew \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Tom Marshall\"\u003eTom\n [Marshall]\u003c/abbr\u003eson of \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Humphry Marshall\"\u003eHumphry\n [Marshall]\u003c/abbr\u003eis a strong Clay man, and\n will oppose Mr. Coleman in the next\n Congressional election; party plays havoc\n with the Kentucky part of his [John\n Marshall's] family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEncloses papers which \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Mr. Francis Scott Key\"\u003eMr.\n [Francis Scott] Key\u003c/abbr\u003ecould not present\n to the Court in person.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSends his respects to the Chief Justice;\n makes arrangements to see him.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses arrangements to have his\n father's [Thomas Marshall] will proved in\n the Virginia General Court so they can rule\n on his [Revolutionary War?] claim for half\n pay.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding Pst. of ALS. 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses land transactions with Capt.\n Slaughter and Major Thompsons; mentions Mr.\n [?] John Lewis's sale of his slaves to pay\n off Warner Lewis's debts; discusses their\n financial difficulties with Mr. [?] Nicholas\n and Mr. [?] Smith; encloses a promissory\n note of Edward C. and Mary Nelson Marshall\n on the Farmers Bank of Virginia for\n $5000.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses his [James Hillhouse] 1808\n proposal of electing the president by\n drawing straws among Senators; he [John\n Marshall] was opposed to it in the past, but\n has seen too much strife and bitterness in\n party politics.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of ALS. 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThanks him for sending a sermon on the\n late Massachusetts Chief Justice [Isaac\n Parker] and his [Joseph Story's] own sketch\n of Parker's Character; thanks him also for a\n box of fish; is sorry that brother \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Justice John McLean\"\u003eJustice\n [John] McLean\u003c/abbr\u003ecould not acquiesce in\n the \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003e[Craig V.] Missouri\n case\u003c/title\u003e; is-chagrined that so many\n cases, including Soulard, Smith and Cathcart\n and Robertson, were left incomplete at their\n last setting; discusses \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Mr. James Madison\"\u003eMr. [James]\n Madison's\u003c/abbr\u003eletter to the editor of the \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eNorth American\n Review\u003c/title\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter of reference for Capt. [?] Baylis\n who served with him during the\n Revolution.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHeard from \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Colonel Lambert\"\u003eColo.[nel] [?]\n Lambert\u003c/abbr\u003ethat she was in her usual\n health; discusses the latest snowfall; dined\n with the minister of France and his wife,\n neither of whom could speak English; dined\n with Secretary of State Martin van Buren\n yesterday; saw Mr. [?] Robinson yesterday\n who gave news of his [John Marshall's]\n sister \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Elizabeth Colston\"\u003e[Elizabeth]\n Colston\u003c/abbr\u003eand her family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding Pst of ALS. 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEnjoyed calling on Mrs. [?] Sedgwick\n author of \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eHope\n Leslie\u003c/title\u003etoday; the snow and ice has\n interrupted regular mail delivery from\n Richmond; they have lost their Marshal [?]\n Ringold, whose being ousted from office will\n distress his family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn verso, \n \u003cabbr expan=\"John Marshall\"\u003eJ[ohn]\n Marshall\u003c/abbr\u003eto [Edward Carrington\n Marshall]. Asks him to find a valuable 1776\n English pamphlet on the Declaration of\n Independence which Mr. [?] Storrs lent him\n [John Marshall] and which he misplaced.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSent him a barrel of hams on the schooner\n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eKing\u003c/title\u003eto be\n deposited with Fisher and Pewer of Boston;\n asks him what the \"wise men in the East\"\n think of the Cabinet upheaval; discusses\n arrangements for new quarters in Washington\n as the Justices will no longer be lodging\n with Mr. [?] Brown; discusses the copy of\n Algernon Sianey [\"Letters.. .in Defence of\n Civil Liberty and against the Encroachments\n of Military Despotism\"?] which he [John\n Marshall] sent him [Joseph Story] earlier;\n discusses possibility of war and the reform\n in Great Britain; will set out on his\n circuit at the end of the week.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArrived yesterday; thanks her for the\n cushion she made him to ease his journey;\n discusses the visit of a niece.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of ALS. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceived his letter and hams; regrets\n that the Court is moving out of Mr. brown's;\n would like to lodge with him [John Marshall]\n and Judge Thompson; discusses the break-up\n of the cabinet, which was a surprise to him;\n thanks him for the Algernon Sidney pamphlet;\n informs him of the death of his [Joseph\n Story's] 10 year old daughter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceived his letters of May 25 and 31 and\n adopted his opinions respecting admiralty\n jurisdiction; discusses arrangements for\n lodgings in Washington next winter and\n explains why he cannot do anything till he\n hears from \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Judge Henry Baldwin\"\u003eJudge\n [Henry] Baldwin\u003c/abbr\u003e; sympathizes with him\n over the loss of his child; tells of his\n similar experiences; he also wrote a poem in\n the occasion of his child's death, which he\n would have enclosed, but it was lost.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThanks him for his letter of 9 September;\n has conversed with \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Judge Joseph Story\"\u003eJudge\n [Joseph] Story\u003c/abbr\u003eabout the Declaration\n of Independence; discusses his [John Quincy\n Adams] ideas about it and the constitutional\n principles of state sovereignty, secession,\n and nullification.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses his medical examination by \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Doctor Philip Syng Physick\"\u003e\n Doctor [Philip Syng] Physick\u003c/abbr\u003e; will\n probably not see her again till he rides the\n circuit court 22 November; the gentlemen of\n the city, especially those of the bar, are\n painfully solicitous to show their respect;\n Nr.[?] Peters and Dr. [?] Gillespie press\n him to stay with them; gives directions for\n his crops to be tended to.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding Pst of ALS. 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe rains of the last several days have\n prevented \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Dr. Philip Syng Physick\"\u003eDr.\n [Philip Syng] Physick\u003c/abbr\u003efrom operating;\n discusses preparations for his medical\n treatment; missed Cary Ambler's visit\n because he was sitting for a portrait;\n Edward Ambler is in town; received a letter\n from brother \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Joseph Story\"\u003e[Joseph]\n Story\u003c/abbr\u003e; mentions his diet.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding Pst of ALS. 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses his medical treatment and \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Doctor Philip Syng Physick\"\u003e\n Doctor [Philip Syng] Physick\u003c/abbr\u003e; \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Brother Justice Henry Baldwin\"\u003e\n Brother [Justice Henry] Baldwin\u003c/abbr\u003eis\n here; discusses the arrangements for the\n Justices' lodgings in Washington, either at\n Mrs. [?] Peyton's or Mr. [?] Peters';\n explains why he did not think he would serve\n on the court at its next session; discusses\n his health and ailments of the past\n summer.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. [?] Giles will give news of his\n health; describes his ailment (\"stones in\n the bladder\") and the Doctor's examination;\n his operation by \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Doctor Philip Syng Physick\"\u003e\n Doctor [Philip Syng] Physick\u003c/abbr\u003ehas been\n delayed because of the weather; describes\n the Doctor and his [John Marshall's]\n accommodations; tell Major [?] Ambler that\n his brothers Edward and Cary are in\n town.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHeard of and congratulates him on\n successful operation; regards his health as\n \"a matter of the highest national\n concernment...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn verso, [John Marshall, to Edward\n Everett], incomplete. Is flattered by his\n kina token; describes his tedious operation;\n thanks him for his letter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLearned from Mr. [?] Peters that he was\n seriously indisposed; intends to leave for\n Richmond next week; discusses difficulties\n in their living arrangements; they will\n probably quarter with [?] Ringold; \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Mr. William Johnson\"\u003eMr.\n [William] Johnson\u003c/abbr\u003ewill live by\n himself, and \n \u003cabbr expan=\"John McLean\"\u003e[John]\n McLean\u003c/abbr\u003ewill preserve his former\n position; \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Brother Henry Baldwin\"\u003eBrother\n [Henry] Baldwin\u003c/abbr\u003epresides over the\n circuit court in session now in\n Philadelphia; describes his [John\n Marshall's] operation and medicine.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses the latest legal difficulties\n involving the Fairfax lands; his wife [Mary\n Willis (Ambler) Marshall] lies at death's\n door.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of ALS. 3 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses a pamphlet to which he [Henry\n Lee] alluded in his letter; mentions \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Thomas Jefferson\"\u003e[Thomas]\n Jefferson's\u003c/abbr\u003e\"unjustifiable aspersions\"\n on his [John Marshall's] conduct and\n principles; writes of his own and \n \u003cabbr expan=\"George Logon\"\u003e[George]\n Logon's\u003c/abbr\u003eexperiences with the\n Revolutionary government of France; mentions\n the journal he kept in Paris.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCertificate of the Clerk of the Circuit\n Court of Fauquier County dated 16 March\n 1961.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMakes arrangements for the sale of \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Edward Carrington Marshall\"\u003e\n Edward's [Carrington Marshall's]\u003c/abbr\u003ebank\n shares; her brother Tom [Thomas Marshall]\n tears that he will not win his election\n because he raises the clerk's fees.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHe was gratified by his complimentary\n comments on the speech he [Richard Henry\n Wilde] sent him [John Marshall]; sends him\n Mr. [?] Ingham's report on the relative\n value of gold and silver and Mr. [?] White's\n reports on coins; mentions Mr. [?] Jacob's\n work on the subject.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThanks him for sending him the first\n volume of the \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eAmerican Library of\n Useful Knowledge\u003c/title\u003e; the Librarian of\n Congress has asked him [John Marshall] to\n help spend $5000 on law books for the\n library, and he [John Marshall] asks him\n [Joseph Story] to suggest titles; discusses \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Charles Mercer\"\u003e[Charles]\n Mercer\u003c/abbr\u003eand the Bank Question and\n internal improvements in Virginia; the party\n guide \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe\n Enquirer\u003c/title\u003eis unable to make \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Mr. John Barbour\"\u003eMr. [John]\n Barbour\u003c/abbr\u003e\"pull in the traces;\"\n discusses national politics and the threat\n of nullification; comments upon the Cholera\n epidemics in the seaports of New York and\n Boston.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas received and read his essay \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"doublequote\" href=\"\"\u003eA Congress of\n Nations for the Amicable Adjustments of\n National Differences;\u003c/title\u003eFeels that its\n argument is well arranged and supported by\n applicable biblical quotations, but is also\n impracticable.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIs having difficulties selling his stock\n for him; there is a severe outbreak of\n cholera in Richmond; discusses the disease;\n is relieved to hear that he is restored to\n health and that John Harvie is getting\n better; discusses the disabling of his\n horse.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThanks him for his help in selecting\n titles for the congressional law library;\n discusses his choice of books; is gratified\n that his course on constitutional law [at\n Harvard] nears completion; shares his gloomy\n prospects of the country; \"The case of the\n south seems to me to be desperate.. .The\n union has been prolonged thus far by\n miracles. I fear they cannot continue.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses how he sold his [James Keith\n Marshall's] and \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Edward Carrington Marshall\"\u003e\n Edward's [Carrington\n Marshall's]\u003c/abbr\u003estock; hopes his\n merchandising speculation will be\n successful; congratulates him on the birth\n of his daughter; has just returned from Mr.\n White's son's funeral, who died of cholera;\n discusses the disease.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThanks him for the dedication of his new\n book; congratulates him upon its completion;\n the [Virginia] legislature is in session;\n discusses Andrew Jackson's response to\n nullification and his party's reaction to\n it; writes of Virginia's relationship to\n South Carolina and the possibility of their\n joining in a southern confederacy; thanks\n him for a copy of \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Mr. Daniel Webster\"\u003eMr.\n [Daniel] Webster's\u003c/abbr\u003espeech; mentions \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Brother Justice Henry Baldwin\"\u003e\n Brother Justice [Henry]\n Baldwin's\u003c/abbr\u003esickness.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEncloses a power of attorney authorizing him\n to draw what is coming to him [Thomas A.\n Marshall] on account of grandfather's [Col.\n Thomas Marshall] halt pay; discusses Congress\n and the Nullification crisis; mentions \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Judge Henry Baldwin\"\u003eJudge [Henry]\n Baldwin's\u003c/abbr\u003emisfortune and that \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Judge Smith Thompson\"\u003eJudge\n [Smith] Thompson\u003c/abbr\u003eis in town.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding ADS. 2 pages. 3 January 1833.\n Power of attorney granting John Marshall the\n right to draw the money due Thomas A. Marshall\n as heir to Colonel Thomas Marshall,\n Revolutionary War veteran entitled to the half\n pay pension; signed by Justice of the Peace\n D.A. Hall.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReturns his portfolio of drawings of\n Washington and pictures of Revolutionary\n Boston; recalls traveling to Richmond with him\n once.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInforms him that his son was accepted to\n West Point; does not think the Tariff bill or\n the bill concerning South Carolina's\n legislature will pass Congress.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceived his letter of 27 April; discusses \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Mr. Edmund Pendleton\"\u003eMr. [Edmund]\n Pendleton\u003c/abbr\u003e; mentions a copy of a letter\n from Mr. Carr in the possession of Col. John\n Nichols; Augustine Davis may have published it;\n his [Charles Carter's] brother has written to\n Mr. [?] Sujt in regards to it; discusses \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Mr. Edmund Pendleton\"\u003eMr. [Edmund]\n Pendleton\u003c/abbr\u003e, \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Thomas Jefferson\"\u003e[Thomas]\n Jefferson\u003c/abbr\u003e, and the XYZ dispatch.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses Lt. Randolph's case, Mr. Watkin's\n case, the power of arrest, and the Judiciary\n Act; rejoices at the abridgement of his \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eCommentaries\u003c/title\u003efor\n the public; discusses its place in colleges and\n universities.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses the national fervor in France\n based upon the martial glory of Napoleon and\n demonstrated by the statue at the top of the\n column of Austerlitz in the \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003ePlace de\n Vendome\u003c/title\u003e; compares Napoleon's popularity\n with the people to that of George Washington's,\n Hannibal's, and Ceasar's; all were \"victims of\n the infernal machine\" [party politics];\n discusses national politics and \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Martin Van Buren\"\u003e[Martin] Van\n Buren\u003c/abbr\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses the addition \n \u003cabbr expan=\"James K. Marshall\"\u003eJames [K.\n Marshall]\u003c/abbr\u003eis making to the house at Leeds\n for his father [John Marshall]; mentions \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Jaquelin Marshall\"\u003eJaquelin's\n [Marshall]\u003c/abbr\u003eexperiences of housing slaves\n in basements at Prospect Hill; mentions the\n weather and growth of crops and the health of\n his [Thomas Marshall's] daughter Mary; \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Aunt Elizabeth (Marshall) Colston\"\u003e\n Aunt [Elizabeth (Marshall)] Colston\u003c/abbr\u003eis in\n poor health and will probably not visit\n Richmond this Winter; his [Thomas Marshall's]\n son John's plans have changed and he has bought\n Mr. [?] Smith's tract of land; tell Mr. [?]\n Tiffin that the girls have never received the\n box of articles he sent to Mr. [?] Cawood by\n steamboat.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of ALS. 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas just received a letter from Mr. [?]\n Ringold who has moved from Washington and can\n not accommodate them next winter; \"the\n political world.., is surely moved \n \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003etopsy turvy\u003c/emph\u003e;\"\n mentions southern states insistence on state\n sovereignty; asks him about \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Brother Justice John McLean\"\u003e\n Brother [Justice John?] McClain\n [McLean's?]\u003c/abbr\u003eopinion in Tennessee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses the 1793 contract signed with\n Denny Fairfax for the Manor of Leeds and the\n South Branch Manor; suggests strategies to\n prove their legal title to the land.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses the purchase of land and the\n legalities it would entail; mentions the\n possibility of mortgaging the Mont Blanc estate\n for a loan.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHis present, a copy of his \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eCommentaries\u003c/title\u003e[on\n the Constitution] and Allison's Sermons, has\n arrived on the \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eLucy and\n Abigail\u003c/title\u003e; has sent him copies of his\n [John Marshall's] \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eLife of\n Washington\u003c/title\u003eto be delivered to \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Daniel Webster\"\u003e[Daniel]\n Webster\u003c/abbr\u003e, \n \u003cabbr expan=\"John Quincy Adams\"\u003e[John Quincy]\n Adams\u003c/abbr\u003e; the Massachusetts Historical\n Society, the Boston Athanaeum (which\n complimented him by having his portrait painted\n for their gallery), and Mrs. [?] Ledyard;\n discusses publication of his [Joseph Story's] \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eCommentaries\u003c/title\u003e,\n which will not be popular in the South;\n discusses \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Henry Clay\"\u003e[Henry]\n Clay's\u003c/abbr\u003eTariff bill.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses sale of his [James K. Marshall's]\n land; inform \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Edward Carrington Marshall\"\u003eEdward\n [Carrington Marshall]\u003c/abbr\u003ethat he [John\n Marshall] is pleased with the terms on which he\n has not rented Mont Blanc; will not leave for\n the country till July when he will visit\n [Fauquier White Sulphur] Springs; the May wheat\n has been injured by frost.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eQuestions him about the defeat of \n \u003cabbr expan=\"John Hardin\"\u003e[John]\n Hardin\u003c/abbr\u003eat the battle of the St. Joseph\n reported in his [John Marshall's] \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eLife of\n Washington\u003c/title\u003e; asks him to check with \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Mr. Jared Sparks\"\u003eMr. [Jared]\n Sparks\u003c/abbr\u003eif it was really fought on Paint\n Creek; discusses the elections of the Virginia\n legislature; mentions Martin van Buren.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes how George Washington convinced\n him to run for Congress in 1798.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWould have written upon his return from\n Washington, but was seriously injured in the\n stage; cannot find and send him a letter in\n George Washington's hand as requested; does\n enclose a military appointment of 1799 with\n Washington's signature.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHopes his injury will not be permanent;\n fears the loss to the nation if he resigns; has\n \"cleared the decks for the great legal\n conflict.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses arrangements regarding the\n acquisition of Mrs. [?] Kennon's [?]\n negroes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses Mr. [?] Warden's and Mr.\n Washington's and Brooke's suits which he\n [Charles Lee] agreed to look into for him [John\n Marshall].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA friend from the West has pointed out an\n error in his [John Marshall's] manuscript which\n he would like to correct as follows: \"v.2 p.207\n 1.27 at \"Chilicothe\".. .\"not Chilicothe on the\n Scioto in Ohio, but ... an old Indian village\n then standing about seventy-five miles rather\n East of North from Cincinnati...\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas had some difficulty weighing and selling\n his Parkinson breed of hogs because they were\n too large and their meat is not sweet enough;\n discusses purchases made for him, Mary, Fanny\n Burwell, and Maria Willis according to his\n directions; is surprised at the magnitude of\n his [Thomas Marshall's] debts; lectures on\n paying them off.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInforms him that his rent for the Campbell\n [?] land belonging to his [John Marshall's]\n father's estate is due.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccepts the President's invitation to dinner\n next Thursday at four.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses the last letter which he [John\n Randolph Roanoke] sent to him [John\n Marshall].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Both are sisters of John Marshall's wife, Mary\n Willis (Ambler) Marshall.]. Discusses her and her\n husband's, [Colonel Edward Carrington], visit with\n the Washington family at Mount Vernon and the\n impending delivery of Mrs. L. Custis Lewis's first\n child; describes their visit to the new national\n capitol on the Potomac; writes of their return to\n Mount Vernon and of their diversions there, which\n include hunting deer and taking care of the new\n baby, or \"the pretty little stranger\"; describes a\n chambermaid and other servants; comments upon\n domestic fashions and describes the furnishings of\n the mansion, which concludes with a description of\n the estate with its greenhouse and gardens, and of\n their host's [George Washington] treatment of his\n many visitors.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of ALS. 6 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Mary Willis (Ambler) Marshall, Richmond,\n Virginia]. Hopes that she will send for her in\n April, although her Aunt [Elizabeth (Marshall)\n Colston] says that it is unlikely; Uncle [Rawleigh\n Colston] is upset at all the letters she is\n sending, and refuses to pay postage on them;\n wanted to buy muslin in Martinsburg to make her a\n handkerchief and a cap for sister [?]; discusses\n her French lessons with her tutor, Mr. LeRoy, and\n incidents of his exasperation with Tom [Thomas M.\n Colston], Tom \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Thomas Marshall\"\u003e[Thomas]\n Marshall\u003c/abbr\u003e[a cousin], and Rawleigh [a cousin,\n Raleigh T. Colston], Cousin \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Edward Colston\"\u003eEdward\n [Colston]\u003c/abbr\u003ecruelly takes delight in telling\n her that she will not be able to go home until\n fall, and \"Uncle says he does not think you love\n me enough to ... send for me...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of ALS. 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas already conveyed his [James Markham\n Marshall's] undiscarded half of land at the forks\n of the Licking [Fauquier County?]; no longer has\n an interest in it, but will convey the novelty to\n him [Martin P. Marshall] at any time; \"lament[s]\n extremely the misunderstanding between yourself\n and Tom...\"; Lucy Marshall is in Fauquier\n [County].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of ALS. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWas lucky he came down on Tuesday, For he found\n his daughter, Nancy, ill, which has caused them to\n postpone their return to Weyanoke, [Virginia]; has\n cone a little transferring for Father; has been\n playing chess with Mr. [?] James? Taylor of\n Norfolk; instructs Agnes [his daughter] to attend\n to her studies in Richmond; hopes her [Mary Willis\n (Ambler) Marshall] trip to Chickahominy did not\n fatigue her.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of ALS. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMentions changes made in the college government\n at Harvard College; complains of college life -\n \"probably no life is so uninteresting to others as\n that of a merely literary man. An indolent\n collegian especially has nothing to say for\n himself...\"; mentions his classes: Electricity,\n Astronomy, and Moral Philosophy; describes his\n \"chums,\" [?] Turner, [?J Bonaparte, a nephew of\n the Emperor, [?] Cheves, son of Langdon Cheves,\n [?] Bruce, of Halifax County, and his cousin [?]\n Birchett; discusses dining arrangements at\n Harvard: \"We have a large table, confined to\n southerners, and what are called gentlemen\n Yankees\"; looks forward with great anxiety to\n graduating in ten months.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of ALS. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMost of her bank stock is to be distributed to\n her children and their children, although she\n leaves five bank shares for her \"faithful friend\n and house keeper Mrs. Francis Martyr\" and her\n daughter Anne and ten dollars a year in perpetuity\n to the school for orphan children established by\n the Ladies of Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of AD. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses the publication of the last Census\n and its effects on Congressional apportionment;\n discusses railroads and canals; writes of\n abolition in Loudoun and Fauquier Counties,\n [Virginia].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInforms her of her brother [Thomas Marshall's]\n accident in Baltimore and of his impending death;\n Father [John Marshall] has rallied from his severe\n cold, but does not continue to improve; he has\n taken cold again, is feeble, and has no appetite;\n he apprehends the worst.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes the weather; Mrs. [?] Mayo has the\n gout; Mary Archer and family are well; Margaret\n and Agnes Douthat are with her; Robert Pickett\n said nothing about paying back the loan; discusses\n his daughters' lessons under Mr. [?] Daley; gives\n directions for the farm; writes of \n \u003cabbr expan=\"General Jaquelin Harvie\"\u003eGeneral\n [Jaquelin] Harvie\u003c/abbr\u003e; discusses arrangements\n for her Christmas trip and for her slaves; asks\n about his daughters Claudia and Maria Willis.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of ALS. 2 pages. Including Pst of\n ALS. 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWrites a favorable recommendation for Dr. J. W.\n Leach who has resided in Fauquier County a few\n years and practiced medicine \"with success and\n usefulness,\" but who desires to move to the city\n to \"improve his fortunes and educate his\n children.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding ANS from \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Daniel Webster\"\u003eD[aniel]\n W[ebster]\u003c/abbr\u003e, n.p., n.d. to Mr. Bell, n.p.,\n recommending A.J. Marshall \"son [nephew] of the\n late \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Chief Justice\"\u003eCh[ief]\n Jus[tice]\u003c/abbr\u003e\u0026amp; a very reputable man.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHandwritten copy [by Alice Colston?]; tells him\n to draw on his [Edward Colston's] money at the\n Valley Bank. of Winchester and send $10 to Raleigh\n Edward at Lexington and the rest to \n \u003cabbr expan=\"William Leigh\"\u003eW[illiam]\n Leigh\u003c/abbr\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding Cy of ADS, (in same hand); 12 October\n 1840, Elizabeth Colston's will; bequeaths her\n slaves and other worldly possessions to her\n children and grandchildren. 4 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes an engraving of a spread-eagled\n American bald eagle bearing a lyre with the motto\n \"Nunc Sidera Ducit\" surrounded by thirteen stars;\n also bears the seal of the Department of State;\n the passport stamps show that Harvie visited\n France, Belgium, Austria, Switzerland, Holland ,\n Italy, Spain, Algeria, Rome, Naples, and Germany\n from May 1858 to March 1859.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes railroad travel in Virginia;\n discusses his visit in Richmond; mentions Col. [?]\n Mason's and \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Governor John B. Floyd\"\u003eG[overn]or\n [John B.] Floyd's\u003c/abbr\u003eefforts at arousing\n sentiment for immediate secession; mentions prices\n of railroad tickets.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of ALS. 1 page. Including Pst of\n ALS. 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding PDS. 1 page. Acceptance and oath of\n Frank G. Rutfin signed in Richmond before James\n Ellett, Notary Public, on 19 August 1861.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThanks her for writing to him in Miss [?]\n Harvie's behalf and for granting him an extension;\n the publishers will finish the reproducing within\n three weeks at which time he will return the\n miniture [sic] to her aunt; distressed to hear of\n Anne Harvie's death.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding Pst of ALS. 1 page. Incomplete.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding Pst of ADS. 2 pages. 30 November\n 1771. Another indenture signed by Fairfax leasing\n land in the Manor of Leeds to William Seth.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDoes not view the consequences of their success\n in the election [of 1800] in as favorable a light\n as he [John Page] does; speculates on what would\n have been the result of the election had there\n been no contest between the \"two Gentlemen who\n stood highest\" [Jefferson and Burr], and if \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Charles Cotesworter Pinckey\"\u003e[Charles\n Cotesworter] Pin[c]key\u003c/abbr\u003eor \n \u003cabbr expan=\"John Adams\"\u003e[John] Adams\u003c/abbr\u003ehad\n opposed Jefferson; speculates on the \"presumption\"\n of the Federalist view that should \"no election...\n take place, Mr. Adams is, under the Constitution,\n to continue in office until a successor be\n appointed; \n \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003ethat is until the next\n election of course\u003c/emph\u003e\"; says appointments of\n John Marshall as Chief Justice, seventeen new\n judges, and [?] Bayard \"the most unacceptable man\n that could be sent to the French republic,\"\n nominated as minister plenipotentiary -- all\n extend the influence of the Federalists and throw\n an obstacle in the way of Jefferson's\n administration; adds a few lines typical of what\n he sees as Federalist sentiment; and writes of\n their friendship.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSince he [John Randolph] is not long for this\n world, is anxious to settle his affairs; \"should\n you decide upon a settlement south of \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Philadelphia\"\u003e\n Philad[elphi]a\u003c/abbr\u003e(which God forbid) I am\n desirous that you should fix yourself as soon as\n possible on the plantation below the mouth of\n little Roanoke...[Bizarre Plantation?];\" his [John\n Randolph's] infirmity has prevented him from\n giving the estate the requisite attention, and it\n is much encumbered with debt; discusses his\n failing health: \"there is something radically a\n miss in the system. The machine cannot last much\n longer.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThanks him for compliance with his request\n \"thru our mutual friend Mr. John Marshall\"; will\n write soon; sends paper for Capt. Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eComments on events in Washington which instill\n \"deep regret and surprize\"; mentions the election\n in Kentucky; says the antimasonic excitement will\n likely be \"troublesome\" but he will not get\n involved in it; has not heard from Mr. [?] Hammond\n for a long time but does not distrust him but\n disagrees over the issue of the representation of\n Ohio in the Baltimore Convention; glad to hear of\n his [James F. Conover] professional prospects.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses the case of [?] Randolph being heard\n by \n \u003cabbr expan=\"U.S. District Court Judge Philip P. Barbour\"\u003e\n U.S. District Court Judge [Philip P.]\n Barbour\u003c/abbr\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cabbr expan=\"Chief Justice John Marshall\"\u003eChief\n Justice [John] Marshall\u003c/abbr\u003edied in Philadelphia\n last Monday, perfectly in his senses to the last;\n the news reached here only this morning, and his\n remains at 4 p.m.; describes the funeral\n procession.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEncloses the diploma of the historical\n Institute of France which just elected John\n Marshall a member on his [Henry Lee's]\n recommendation; describes Marshall's election to\n that society.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIs happy about her recovery; quotes\n Shakespeare; describes his own health; writes of\n his political campaigning in King and Queen, King\n William, and Hanover counties, [Virginia];\n describes her old neighborhood and farm, now\n occupied by Fleetwood Academy; discusses George\n Haskins situation, mentioning his lack of slaves;\n gossips about affairs in King and Queen County;\n discusses the unusual weather; tells an Irish\n joke; discusses \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Henry Clay\"\u003e[Henry]\n Clay's\u003c/abbr\u003etariff.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOne was a wax portrait in basso-relievo donated by\n Horace Edwin Hayden to the Virginia Historical\n Society in 1881; another was the bronze monument by\n W.W. Story which stands on the terrace of the U. S.\n Capitol; the members of the Marshall family who\n attended the dedication of this statue are listed in\n a third article.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePoem written on the request of a lady to inscribe\n his name in her autograph book.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of AL. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePoem honors the splendid singing voice of Miss\n Eliza Lambert, the sister of Richmond's Mayor William\n Lambert.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of AL. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"doublequote\" href=\"\"\u003eLines on the occasion of\n the raising of the bronze statue of Chief Justice\n Marshall, at Richmond in 1869(?) - while Brig. Gen'l\n Terry was in command of 'District No. 1'\u003c/title\u003e-\n which included the state of Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses tr. Physick's operation on John\n Marshall.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLists his pall-bearers: Henry St. George Tucker,\n John B. Clapton, \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Benjamin W. Leigh\"\u003eBenj[amin] W [?]\n Leigh\u003c/abbr\u003e, \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Thomas Rutherford\"\u003eTho[ma]s\n Rutherford\u003c/abbr\u003e, \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Charles Copland\"\u003eCha[rle]s\n Copland\u003c/abbr\u003e, \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Robert Popllard\"\u003eRob[er]t\n Popllard\u003c/abbr\u003e, Chapman Johnson, Robert Stanard, [?]\n Scott, and [?] D. Wren[?]; also lists the Marshalls: \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Col. George M. Carrington\"\u003eCol. Geo[rge]\n M. Carrington\u003c/abbr\u003e, \n \u003cabbr expan=\"General William Lambert\"\u003e[?] General\n [William] Lambert\u003c/abbr\u003e, General [?] Peyton, and\n Col. Armistead.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMentions the results of an autopsy on Marshall's\n body after his death in 1835.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePublished by the Reformed Church Publication Board\n in Philadelphia. The Centennial Address delivered\n before the Franklin and Marshall College of\n Lancaster, Pennsylvania on 14 June 1887.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSubsequently published by McGraw-Hill in a 1960\n book, \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eFountain of\n Freedom\u003c/title\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe smaller one was copied from French painter\n Levret Saint Memin's 1801 crayon portrait of\n Marshall. The larger lithograph was copied from\n Chester Harding's 1830 painting.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding a copy of and etching of John Marshall's\n house in Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe original of the one of Marshall facing right\n was made in Richmond about 1825 by a French artist.\n It was hung at Oak Hill, was inherited by his eldest\n son Thomas Marshall, and is privately owned.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEach was copied from the 1801 portrait of Marshall\n painted by Saint Memin. The large matted one was\n engraved by J. H. E. Whitney.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo obviously derived from Henry Inman's 1831\n portrait; one engraved by J. A. O'Neil shows Marshall\n in 1793 as the Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of\n Virginia Freemasons; the last includes engravings of\n portraits of other U.S. Chief Justices: John Jay,\n Oliver Ellsworth, John Rutledge, R. B. Taney, M. R.\n Waite, Salmon P. Chase, and Melville W. Fuller.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding a short history of Federal Hardware and\n Implement Mutual Insurance companies.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIt consists of a 26 February 1884 memorial to the\n General Assembly of Virginia, a 25 February letter to\n the Editor of \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe State\u003c/title\u003e, and\n handwritten commentary. Ruffin states the reasons why\n he is opposed to passage of the Richmond Dock and Dry\n dock bill.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information"],"scopecontent_tesim":["Original letters and copies of letters from other\n repositories, chiefly 1788-1835, of John Marshall's\n correspondence with his wife, Mary Willis (Ambler) Marshall,\n other family members, James Monroe, Joseph Story, Bushrod\n Washington, and others. The correspondence reflects Marshall's\n wide range in interests including law, Virginia and U. S.\n politics, international affairs, agriculture and social\n events.","Also included are letters by family members and\n descendants; a charcoal sketch and copies of visual\n representations of John Marshall; and places and events\n associated with him.","Has delivered his [Monroe's] letters to \n \n Gen[era]l [George Rogers] Clark and \n [John?] Banks ;\n discusses proceedings of the Virginia Assembly;\n R[ichard]\n H[enry] Lee's services to the Assembly\n are lost forever and \n Colo. Harry\n [Henry \"Light Horse Harry\"] Lee will\n probably take his place; mentions bills\n defining citizenship introduced by \n [John]\n Taylor and \n Colo.\n [George] Nicholas ; tells of [Joseph?]\n Jones bill and discusses \n Patrick]\n Henry's style of oratory; relates the\n House being split upon the issue of exclusion\n of the Statute Staple men; discusses military\n warrants for land and his [Marshall's] father,\n who set out for the western country on November\n 5.","Including Tcy of ALS. 2 pages.","Blesses George Washington who resigned his\n commission of 23 December 1783; will put his\n [Monroe's] letter to \n Majr.\n [John] Crittenden into the hands of \n \n Genl. [George Rogers] Clarke , who will\n be in the western country in February, and who\n will pay close attention to his [Monroe's]\n military warrant; mentions that the Speaker\n [John Tyler] has left Richmond; laments the\n passage of the bill excluding Virginian\n delegates to Congress from serving in the\n Virginian legislature; \"Fear of the power of\n Congress I have ever considered as chimerical;\"\n Colo.\n [John Francis] Mercer informed him of the\n passage in the Continental Congress of the\n resolution accepting Virginia's cession of the\n northwest territory.","Including Tcy of ALS. 3 pages.","Has enclosed a bill of exchange for the one\n hundred dollars due him [Monroe] as a Delegate\n to Congress, four dollars having been expended\n on his land warrant now in the hands of the\n Surveyor.","Including Tcy of ALS. 1 page.","Claims he is unable to send money because\n inclement weather has hindered state tax\n collection; \n [Samuel] Ege and\n Monroe's former landlady, Mrs. Shera, are\n clamoring to be paid; mentions the impending\n marriage of \"Little\" \n [John]\n Stewart and \"Kitty Hair\" [Catherine\n Hare]; gossips about \"artificial heat\" of the\n courtships of Mr. Dunn and \"your old\n acquaintance\" Miss Shera, and of \"Tabby\" \n [Tabitha]\n Eppes who \"has grown quite fat \u0026\n buxom, her charms...renovated,\" and her\n unsuccessful suitors: \n [Edward]\n Carrington , [?] Young, [?] Selden, \n [Matthew]\n Wright , and \n Foster Webb,\n [Jr.] ; mentions other friends and state\n officials including \n [Thomas]\n Lomax , \n William]\n Nelson, [Jr.] , \n [Beverley]\n Randolph , and \n [William]\n Short .","Colo.\n [William] Grayson is not here, but \n [Wilson\n Cary] Nicholas is; a quorum was reached\n on Wednesday, [May 12] and committees are being\n appointed; \n [Patrick]\n Henry arrived yesterday and is eager to\n have postponement of the tax collection; the\n Speaker [John Tyler] was chosen without a\n contest; tell \n Colo.\n [John Francis] Mercer that there lies\n £100 in the Treasury for him; he\n [John Marshall] will tell his [John Francis\n Mercer's] brother [James Mercer] in\n Fredericksburg the same; \n Major\n [John] Crittenden is again elected for\n Fayette County; asks him [Monroe] to deliver\n letters for him to \n Doctor [Arthur]\n Lee .","Reports he delivered his [William Branch\n Giles's] letter to \n Major\n [Charles] Magill while in Winchester,\n [Virginia] in August; discusses gaming act and\n several points concerning the case of his\n [William Branch Giles's] client, Mr. Bell; \n \n Brother James [Markham Marshall] has\n arrived from Kentucky and will remain in town\n through October.","Including Tcy of ALS. 2 pages.","Congratulates him on his return from\n Montreal and the Northwest; he too wishes that\n the British debts resolutions had not been\n passed, because it tends to weaken the federal\n bands and provides a pretext for the British to\n retain possession of the forts on the lakes;\n [Joseph Jones] has introduced a bill to provide\n for seven annual payments for repayment to\n begin in April 1786; only bill that has been\n passed was one granting \n [James]\n Rumsey a 10 year monopoly to develop the\n machine in a steamboat; discusses rejected\n bills, including one encouraging intermarriage\n with the Indians; General Assessment and\n circuit court bills will probably be thrown\n out, even with the influence of [Patrick]\n Henry; his [Monroe's] letter recommending \n Colo.\n [John Francis] Mercer did not arrive in\n time to appoint him to a position; \n [Joseph]\n James has replaced \n [William]\n Short , and \n [Spencer]\n Roane and \n [Miles] Selden,\n [Jr.] have replaced \n [Meriwether]\n Smith and \n Colo.\n [William] Christian ; \n [Edward?]\n Carrington was very disappointed in\n losing by one vote when Colo. Jack Nicholas\n walked out on the last ballot; he [John\n Marshall] attempted too to promote Monroe's\n friend's interest, Wilson Nicholas, who is\n about to marry \n Miss\n [Margaret] Smith of Baltimore; his\n [Marshall's] father is willing to help him\n [Monroe] in regards to his [Monroe's] western\n lands, but his [John Marshall's] cousin \n Humphr[e]y\n Marshall would be better able to;\n discusses relative merits of selling or keeping\n his [Monroe's] western lands.","Invitation to dinner; on verso is poem \n Extempore at the\n Convention in Virginia, written by\n Morris, satirizing the slowness of the\n proceedings of the Virginia convention called\n to ratify the U.S. Constitution.","Sends client a second subpoena as the first\n was never returned, concerning a suit in\n Chancery Court which involved title to land in\n Fauquier County, Virginia; asks that any\n depositions or affidavits be forwarded to\n him.","In response to a letter of Washington's, he\n [John Marshall] discusses the legalities of\n caveats and land patents.","Discusses general English legal history of\n intestacy, and Virginia's laws concerning\n priority of payment of a decedent's debts by an\n executor.","Asks for his [Thomas Walker's] account\n rendered to \n [John] Syme for\n other materials which will help him [John\n Marshall] to argue his [Thomas Walker's] court\n case.","Gives \n Col. [Reuben]\n Lindsey [sic] [Lindsay] an order upon him\n [John Marshall] for twelve pounds.","Discusses his [John Marshall's] financial\n obligations to him, including £20\n for a chariot; asks him to pay the governor\n [Henry Lee] for a hogshead of wine for him;\n mentions he is setting out immediately for\n Williamsburg.","Including Tcy ALS. 1 page.","Including Pst of ALS. 1 page.","Advises him [Francis Walker] to take\n testimony showing the value of his [Francis\n Walker's] lands which formerly belonged to \n Mr.\n [Nicholas] Meriwether in preparation of\n his case; discusses his [Francis Walker's]\n other case against \n [William]\n Cabell .","The case will probably be heard in March and\n Mrs. [?] Turnbull's presence will not be\n material; the subjects which the testimony\n should point to are the fortune of Mr. [?]\n Turnbull, the injury done that of Mrs.\n Turnbull, and the expenses she has incurred\n since the separation; if he [Charles Lee] can\n learn that, he will prove himself useful in\n Alexandria.","Note asking Jones to pay Garrett Cottringer\n $100; the bill is endorsed on the verso \"Feby\n 11 1794 Reed Payment, Garrett Cottringer.\"","Respectfully declines the Office of Attorney\n General of the U.S. because of his current\n business in Richmond.","Has transmitted to the clerk of Dumfries a\n transverse to the Fauquier inquest; hopes that\n it will be determined by means of a demurrer at\n the next terms; discusses why he [John\n Marshall] wishes this.","Has just arrived safely in Philadelphia, and\n waits impatiently for the arrival of \n Mr.\n [Alexander] Campbell before considering a\n British debts case; his [John Marshall's] own\n case may not be taken up; mentions attending\n the theatre and compares Philadelphia's\n favorite actress, Mrs. Marshall, to Richmond's \n Mrs. [Anne\n West] Bignall ; has not yet heard from\n his brother, James Markham Marshall; sends\n greetings to his children.","Including Pst of ALS. 2 pages.","In which he [John Marshall] sells 1,640\n acres in Clarke County, Kentucky, near Strouds\n Station which had been patented to Marshall on\n 11 March 1784. At dollars per acre, McCreery\n pays Marshall £500 as a down\n payment, with the balance to be paid when full\n title is proved. The deed is recorded under the\n Seal of the General Court of Virginia on 15\n June 1801.","Upset at the news of \n [Rawleigh]\n Colston's loss, and of the postponement\n of his [John Marshall's] visit to Buckpond,\n stating \"the thoughts of seeing you once\n more...is a principle means of keeping me\n alive\"; is pleased with his son's \"part...in\n the present Storm\"; would like to see his\n grandsons but fears the journey would tax their\n youthful constitutions; discusses his potential\n bequests of his property to the family;\n mentions he has paid taxes on his [John\n Marshall's] military land, but not on that\n which he gave to his grandson, Tom [Thomas\n Marshall] in Fayette [County, Kentucky]; thinks\n that \"the political Horizon [is about] to clear\n up\"; asks Marshall to notify \n Col.\n [Edward] Carrington that he [John\n Marshall] has sent \n Mr. [Peyton]\n Shorts' accounts to \n Mr. [Oliver]\n Walcot [sic] [Wolcott] .","Discusses \n Mr. [John]\n Eyre and \n [James] Nimmo ,\n two of Virginia's electors in the presidential\n election of 1796; comments upon the\n distribution of Virginia's electoral votes\n between \n [Thomas]\n Jefferson , \n Sam[ue]l\n Adams , [?] Clinton, \n [Aaron] Burr , \n \n Gen[era]l [George] Washington , [?] \n Pin[c]kney , and\n John Adams; the Virginia Assembly displays its\n former hostility to Federalism; hopes North\n Carolina will not \"tread the crooked path of\n Virginia\"; will furnish \n [Alexander\n James] Dallas with his [John Marshall's]\n argument in the British debts case.","Tells of a day spent at Mount Vernon\n (\"certainly one of the most delightful\n places in our country\") on his way to\n Philadelphia via Alexandria; misses her so\n much as to send his man \"Dick\" to her with\n this letter; is treated well by his unkle\n [sic] \n [James]\n Keith in Alexandria; \"I never was\n peremptory but I must now give you one\n positive order. It is be happy\"; sends two\n letters which he accidentally carried off\n and asks her to send the one addressed to \n Genl.\n [Henry] Young to \n Mr. [John]\n Hopkins , and to send the other to his\n brother, [Thomas Marshall].","Including Pst of ALS. 2 pages.","Thanks him [Caesar Rodney] for informing\n him that some papers which had slipped out\n of his [John Marshall's] pocket were being\n held by Mr. McCullough at New Castle, whom\n he has requested to post them to\n Philadelphia.","Discusses his voyage up the Chesapeake\n from Baltimore; mentions his first meeting\n with President John Adams; describes \"heavy\n gloom\" which hangs around the almost\n bankrupt Robert Morris and family; is\n impressed by the Vauxhall of Philadelphia\n and fashionable diversions; mentions estate\n of \n Mrs.\n [Susan] Heyward [sic] [Hayward] on the\n banks of the Schuylkil.","Including Pst of ALS. 2 pages.","Is \"extremely chagrined\" at never\n receiving any mail from her; writes he will\n sail on the brig Grace for Amsterdam within\n the week to join \n \n General [Charles] Pinckney ; discusses\n July 4th celebration of the Senators and\n Representatives.","Including Pst of ALS. 2 pages.","Has received her letter of June 30;\n thanks Heaven for her improved health and\n warns her that \"melancholy may inflict\n punishment\" on her unborn child; mentions\n that \n Colonel\n [Robert] Gamble's wife would like to\n visit her; expects to sail by the beginning\n of next week at the latest and is upset at\n the delay; will finish his business and\n return as soon as possible; sends greetings\n to his children and mother-in-law; mentions\n the adjournment of Congress.","Including Pst of ALS. 2 pages.","Sends this letter by \n Mr.\n [Humphrey ?] Marshall ; attended the\n play \n Romeo and\n Juliet last night, and compares \n Mrs.\n [Anne Bruton] Merry's \"Juliet\" to\n Richmond's \n Mrs.\n [Anne] West [Bignall's] ; visited \n Mrs.\n [Susan] Heyward [sic] Hayward and\n gossips about her rumored upcoming marriage\n to [Henry] Baring; complains about delayed\n departure and wearies of dining out, as he\n begins \"to require a frugal repast with good\n cool water\"; wishes \"that we were looking\n back on our separation instead of seeing it\n before us.\"","Including Pst of ALS. 2 pages.","Asks her to give a parcel of land deeds\n from \n [John?]\n Banks to Hobe, which can be found in\n his pine desk in his office, to the clerk of\n the General Court; is impatient to get on\n board ship and away; wishes he had spent\n another week in Richmond; with tomorrow's\n departure of the Republican, \n [Richard]\n Brent , the last of the Virginia\n Congressmen will have left the city; \"my\n spirits sink at parting with them.\"","Including Pst of ALS. 2 pages.","Will board the \n Grace at New\n Castle on Sunday [July 18] and will\n hopefully arrive in Amsterdam by the end of\n August; should hear from him next in\n October; \n Mr. [John]\n Brown [his secretary] has just arrived\n on the last stage; received his son Tom's\n letter of July 6; dined yesterday at William\n Bingham's country seat on the Schuylkil;\n describes the table setting and \n Mrs.\n [Anne Willing] Bingham's dressing in\n the latest fashions; besides his Virginia\n relations, he most enjoys the company of \n Mr. [Robert]\n Morris' family.","Including Pst of ALS. 2 pages.","Unfavorable winds have prevented them\n from reaching the open ocean; describes ship\n board accommodations, provisions, and\n companions, including John Brown, John G.\n Gamble, the Captain of the ship, Mr. Willis,\n and two Dutch gentleman; has sent a letter\n to Winchester, [Virginia] for his son, Tom;\n instructs her how to reach him [John\n Marshall] by letter.","Including Pst of ALS. 2 pages.","1200 or 1300 miles east of the Capes of\n Delaware, Marshall and the crew hailed a\n ship bound for America; has not been very\n seasick and has busied himself with reading;\n has arrived in Holland and sends news of his\n health and safety on the first American\n bound ship.","Including Pst of ALS. 2 pages.","The captain of a British frigate of\n Admiral Duncan's fleet at the mouth of the\n Texel boarded their ship on August 29 but\n treated them extremely politely upon\n learning that a U.S. minister was on board;\n observed the Dutch fleet in the Texel ready\n to move on the British if negotiations at\n Lisle [sic] [Lille] failed; describes the\n internal politics of the French government:\n the Directory presses for war while the\n Council of Five Hundred desires peace,\n fearing the politicization of the French\n army; Lord Malmesberry [sic] [Malmesbury;\n William Harris] is at Lisle [sic] [Lille]\n negotiating for peace between Britain and\n France; Tayleran Perigord [sic] [Charles\n Maurice de Talleyran Perigord], the French\n Minister of foreign affairs, has sent orders\n to French parts to grant immediate passports\n to the American envoys.","Arrived at the Hague and met with \n \n General [Charles C.] Pinckney on\n September 3; has just heard from an express\n from the Dutch minister at Paris to the\n Committee of Foreign Affairs about the\n Directory with the aid of the army moving\n against royalist and right wing opponents in\n the Directory, the Council of Five Hundred\n and the Council of Elders; discusses the\n impact which this coup d'etat of 18\n Fructidor should have upon foreign policy;\n the French government is now in the hands of\n those unfriendly to peace, and the moderates\n willing to judge the American case with\n fairness have been removed; received news of\n Mr.\n [Elbridge] Gerry's intended departure\n from Boston on July 23 and will await his\n arrival in Rotterdam for a week before they\n leave for Paris.","Reached the Hague on August 3 and is very\n much pleased with \n \n General [Charles C.] Pinckney ; had\n intended to set out for Paris immediately,\n but Pinckney received news from \n [Elbridge]\n Gerry on August 5 that he will arrive\n at the end of August; is perplexed and\n mortified at the delay; describes the Hague\n and its social life; mentions lack of\n companions for Pinckney's wife and daughter;\n has enjoyed the theatre even though he does\n not understand the language, and applauds\n the performances of \n \n Madame [Louise Rosalie Lefebvre] de Gazon\n [sic] [DuGrazon] ; the Directory's\n coup in Paris may abridge negotiations so as\n to occasion his return to America this fall,\n but he would resent such a circumstance even\n though he misses her immensely and is\n impatient to be with her again.","Including Pst of ALS. 2 pages.","The reports on the revolution in Paris\n have been confirmed; discusses violations of\n the French constitution, under the hand of\n the army, the very essence of a republic is\n destroyed, but \"French liberty may survive\n the shock it has sustained;\" \"All power is\n now in the undivided possession of those who\n have directed against us those hostile\n measures of which we so justly complain;\"\n will set out for Paris on Monday with or\n without \n [Elbridge]\n Gerry ; contrary to previous reports,\n negotiations still continue at Lille; their\n route to Paris is prescribed on their\n permit, probably to prevent their passing\n through Lisle [sic]; [Philippe Antoine] and \n Merlin [de\n Douai] is chosen director to replace\n Barthelemey and \n \n [Nicholas] Francois de Neufchatil [sic]\n [Neufchateau] to replace Carnot; Mr.\n Noel, the minister of France at the Hague\n has just informed him that 1,500 people have\n been arrested at Lyons and that \n General\n [Andre] Massena is marching to Avignon\n to quell resistance there.","Includes a copy of the letter which the\n three submitted to the French minister of\n foreign affairs after waiting to be received\n for a month; they have yet to receive an\n answer to this November 11 letter, and the\n condemnation of American vessels continues;\n the following is written in a numeric cipher\n which is decoded in superscript: \"Frequent\n and urgent attempts have been made to\n inveigle us again into negociation [sic]\n with persons not officially authorized, of\n which the obtaining of money is the\n basis...we have very little prospect of\n succeeding in our mission.\"","Has enclosed an issue of the Conservative\n [sic] [ \n \n Conservateur (Paris)] as an example\n of the abuse of the U.S. by the French\n press; discusses the arrests of innocent\n American citizens in Paris, including the\n cases of \n [Jesse]\n Putnam , \n [James V.]\n Murray and his brother [George W.\n Murray]; discusses the situation of American\n merchant marines who, being forced ashore\n after their vessels were captured, have no\n choice but to become French privateers;\n \"France resounds with the proposd [sic]\n invasion of England,\" but such talk may be\n designed merely to alarm Britain; discusses\n France's continental ambitions and Spain's\n situation; writes of the internal France\n political scene; encloses the November 7\n issue of the Leyden gazette with news of \n \n [Emmanuel Louis Henri Alexandre de Launay,\n comte] D'Anteaigues and \n [Joseph] Fauche\n [sic] [Fouche] and the reports of \n \n [Gillaume Alexandre] Troncon de\n [Du]Counaray and \n \n [Antoine-Claire] Thibidau [sic]\n [Thibaudeau] ; gives his opinion of\n the future French treatment of the U.S.","Has received no letters from her nor from\n his friends in the U.S.; will not be home\n until May and hopes that the Randolph's\n Executors case can be postponed until then;\n mentions amusements and dissipations of\n Paris; describes his new living arrangements\n [with Madame de Villette].","Including Pst of ALS. 2 pages.","Cannot settle or pay the accounts of\n American Consuls until the Congress of the\n United States acts on the matter; the three\n have agreed to transcend their powers to a\n limited extent in order to liberate distressed\n American seamen and return them to the U.S.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","Presents his compliments to Marshall; called\n at his lodgings twice this morning, but he\n [John Marshall] was not in; regrets that he\n will not be able to dine with him due to a\n previous engagement.","Arrived in Richmond a week ago but hasn't\n been able to attend to his business because of\n his many callers and because of the heat; he\n enjoys the company of his three year old\n daughter, Mary; discusses the health of his\n son, John, who is cutting teeth.","Including Pst of ALS. 2 pages.","Discusses Gerry's letter of 20 October 1798\n to President John Adams, in which he [Elbridge\n Gerry] makes several misstatements about his\n part in the XYZ Affair, which Marshall now\n refutes point by point; \"I must hope sir that\n you will think justly on this subject \u0026\n will thereby save us both the pain of an\n altercation...\"","Apologizes for an article lately published\n listing the offices which he [George\n Washington] offered to him [John Marshall],\n with which he [John Marshall] had nothing to\n do; the writer of the article, who obtained no\n information directly or indirectly from him\n [John Marshall], \"was unquestionably actuated\n by a wish to serve me and by resentment at the\n various malignant calumnies that have been so\n profusely bestowed on me.\"","Is pleased with his [John Marshall's]\n election to the [Congress] even though by a\n small majority; discusses the elections; asks\n him to inform him of the election results when\n all are known.","Will communicate the enclosures of his\n [George Washington's] last letter to \n Col.\n [Edward] Carrington and \n Col. [William]\n Heth when they arrive in town; comments\n upon the elections and the unexpected defeat of\n Col. [George]\n Hancock and Major [?] Haywood; discusses\n the composition of the new state legislature;\n and upon France's declaration of war upon\n Austria and its consequences.","Discusses military appointments and\n recommends several officers, including \n Col. [John]\n Cropper , \n Genl.\n [George Rogers] Clark , \n Genl. [Thomas]\n Posey , Col. James Breckenbridge, \n Col.\n [Callohill] Minnis , \n \n Genl. [Robert] Porterfield of Augusta , \n \n Genl. [Joseph] Blackwell of Fauquier ,\n and \n \n Col. [Joseph] Swearingean of Berkley ;\n comments upon the death of \n Mr. [Patrick]\n Henry .","Was unable to return the enclosed letter\n because he was out of town and his happy that\n he [George Washington] is not displeased that\n it was not transmitted to \n Col. [John]\n Cropper ; has just received his [George\n Washington's] second letter to that gentleman\n and will forward it immediately.","Including Pst of ADS, 2 pages. 5 August\n 1812. Indenture of Isaac Arnold and Elija\n Arnold assigning the title of the Manor of\n Leeds to James K. Marshall.","Encloses a blank power of attorney in order\n to transfer and draw dividends upon his\n Pennsylvania Bank Stock which Mr. [?] Pleasant\n has just remitted him [John Marshall];\n discusses land sales and the Manor of Leeds;\n discusses political situation and how the next\n election will affect their affairs; comments\n upon domestic unrest in regards to foreign\n affairs: \" I look forward with more\n apprehension than I have ever done to the\n future political events of our country;\" has\n just been informed of the total English defeat\n in Holland.","Including TCy of ALS. 2 pages.","Congratulates him on his marriage; the\n newspapers report Philadelphia mourning the\n death of Genl. Washington; hopes that\n moderation and toleration will succeed the\n violence of the last session of Congress; party\n strife exasperates Pennsylvania; the Governor\n has threatened to turn out of office every man\n who voted against him.","Replies to a letter which proposed a\n change of the law for collecting the\n internal revenue of the U.S. in\n nonintercourse law with France; mentions\n that popular feeling is against it, as the\n public sees it responsible for present low\n price of tobacco.","Has received her letter of August 5 and\n is pleased with her account of the\n children's behavior; approves of her sending\n the boys \"upcountry;\" Tom's [Thomas\n Marshall] last letter contained no news of\n her health.","Has just returned from a visit to Mt.\n Vernon where the widowed Mrs. Washington\n appeared \"tolerably cheerful;\" hopes Polly\n would \"show more firmness\" as a widow;\n pleased with his young son, Jacqueline's,\n last letter and hopes his schooling with Mr.\n Burns will continue.","Including Pst of ALS. 1 page.","Discusses the results of the presidential\n election of 1800 in Maryland, New England,\n and Pennsylvania, stating that it is \"an\n absolute certainty that any success in your\n state [South Carolina] elects him [Thomas\n Jefferson].","Reproaches himself for forgetting to\n recommend Major [?] Richardson to him [the\n commander of the 2nd Brig., Virginia\n militia] and does so now, hoping his neglect\n has not been a negative reflection of\n Richardson's abilities.","In compliance with his [John Jay] letter,\n the President [John Adams] has directed a\n requisition to be made to the Governor of\n Lower Canada for the delivery of Thomas\n Jamieson, alias Charles Splendor, a.k.a.\n Charles Johnston to the authorized person;\n the requisition and related documents are\n enclosed.","Discusses the difficulties involved in\n the present negotiations between King and\n the British commissioners; the President\n [John Adams] informs him that an informal\n agreement will be satisfactory as it will be\n impossible to induce the British cabinet to\n abandon their principles; matters are left\n to his good judgment; the stipulation of a\n sum is better than the present unsettled\n situation.","His financial embarrassments have\n prevented him from devoting time to writing\n the history or General Washington's life;\n sends him [John Marshall] a trunk containing\n Washington's books and papers, and an\n enclosed list thereof; wishes he weren't so\n ignorant of bankruptcy proceedings.","Presidential candidates, \n [Thomas]\n Jefferson and \n [Aaron]\n Burr , have an equal number or votes,\n and thus the House or Representatives must\n decide the issue; Marshall aces not care\n which way the election goes, but \"witnesses\n the anxiety of parties;\" suspects the\n contest will be decided by South Carolina;\n even it Jefferson wins, Burr probably \"will\n not surrender...all his pretensions to the\n office;\" is chagrined by the late Federalist\n defeat and blames unfaithful men like Mr.\n [Marston?] or Rhode Island who threw away\n their votes, as attributed in the letters to\n \n General [Alexander]\n Hamilton's pamphlet; the treaty with\n France is before the Senate; \n \n Chief Justice [Oliver] Ellsworth has\n resigned and \n Mr. [John]\n Jay has been nominated in his place;\n looks forward to returning to Richmond in\n March and leaving behind forever his\n political career.","An expression of the sentiments or\n respect which accompanied Vanderburgh's\n presidential commission to become a judge of\n Indiana Territory.","Discusses the probable policies of the new\n [Jefferson] administration; they will\n strengthen the state governments at the expense\n of the Federal, transferring as many powers to\n the House of Representatives as possible; the\n cabinet will probably consist of \n [James]\n Madison as Secretary of State, \n [Henry]\n Dearbourne [sic] as Secretary of War, \n [Albert]\n Gellatin or \n [Abraham]\n Baldwin as Secretary of the Treasury,\n maybe \n General\n [Robert] Smith as Secretary of the Navy,\n and \n [Levi]\n Lincoln or Mr. Livingstone [Robert R.\n Livingston] as Attorney General; many of\n Jefferson's party are disposed to press on to\n war, but the government will probably excite as\n much hate and resentment as possible amongst\n the people against England without proceeding\n to actual hostilities; the ill conduct of the\n British cruisers and Vice Admiralty and the\n remonstrances of American merchants well serves\n this purpose; delay the completion of your\n mission until you hear from the new\n administration as the present agreement with\n the British would not be ratified.","Including TCy of ALS. 2 pages.","Accepts his [Thomas Jefferson's] offer to\n administer the Presidential oath of office to\n him.","Being sued by Virginia on a bond of security\n which he signed for Daniel Brodhead several\n years ago, Marshall has learned that the\n recipient of this letter was acquainted with\n the advertisements which Brodhead was required\n to post; he sends him a commission, therefore,\n and asks for his and Colonel Anderson's\n depositions concerning Brodhead and his\n business.","Is composing a history of General\n Washington's life and requests information\n about the war in the Southern states, because\n General [?] Lincoln's letters to Washington in\n his [John Marshall's] possession do not tell\n much about the combined Franco-American\n operations at Savannah in 1779; send any\n important particulars respecting the siege of\n Charleston; is disgusted with the political\n world and hopes to see him [Charles Cotesworth\n Pinckney] in Richmond soon; asks about the\n political climate of South Carolina and thinks\n federalism may prevail in three districts in\n Virginia's state elections.","Discusses the mild but rainy weather and\n mentions various calamities which have befallen\n him: \"15 silver dollars\" of his \"had worn\n through\" his pocket \"and sought their liberty\n in the sands of Carolina;\" and when his man\n Peter unpacked his clothes, he discovered that\n he had not packed any of Marshall's breeches;\n \"I thought I shou'd be sans culotte only one\n day,\" but all the town's were too busy to work\n for him; \"I have the extreme mortification to\n pass the whole term without that important\n article of dress...\"","Including Pst of ALS. 3 pages.","Thanks him for an oration which he sent on\n the death of Alexander Hamilton; hopes that\n Hamilton's death will cast some odium upon\n dueling; was not aware that he had played a\n part in producing the commercial meet in\n Baltimore; did not know he resigned the\n emoluments of his military service.","Has received his [John Marshall's] November\n 2 letter requesting information for his [John\n Marshall's] history of General Washington's\n life, and will send his recollections of many\n transactions as soon as he can put them to\n paper; he [John Marshall] should also contact\n Colonel [Bushrod] Washington; will send the\n book \n Campaigns of 1780 and\n 1781 , supposedly written with [?]\n Tarleton's assistance, which contains more\n official documents than any other work and\n correct plans of some of the actions, if it\n will be of any use.","Arrived at her mother's yesterday, and found\n her not as well as he had hoped; her sisters\n are well; forgot to pay his brother Charles\n five dollars for his [John Marshall] son John's\n schooling; things are badly conducted at his\n [John Marshall's] plantation.","Discusses the problems of the Fairfax lands\n and the people of Winchester; will endeavor to\n raise a considerable part of the money required\n for payment.","Including TCy of ALS. 2 pages.","Asks for the money which he [John Ambler]\n owes him for payment for land; needs it to make\n his [John Marshall's] payment to Mr. [?]\n Fairfax, which fact he [John Ambler] knew; his\n [John Marshall's] brother William will take the\n contract off his [John Ambler's] hands if\n desired.","Takes no offense at his [John Marshall]\n printing of his [John Adams] letters to \n Gen[era]l\n Washington in his [John Marshall's]\n biography of Washington; in detailing the\n events of the last years of Washington's life,\n he [John Marshall] \"will run the gauntlet\n between two influential factions, armed with\n scorpions...;\" but such an investigation must\n be made; comments upon his [John Adams]\n appointing \n Gen[era]l\n Washington to head of the army.","Has received his [James Markham Marshall's]\n letter enclosing Col. Thurston's deed; did not\n hear about his [James Markham Marshall's] suit\n with Stevens; Fitzhugh's note is in [?]\n Williams' hand but has yet to get process\n executed on him as he stays at different places\n in Maryland and can't be easily found;\n discusses arrangements made for their nephew\n Tom, with their brother William.","Discusses politics and report of Mr. [?]\n Chesnut that the Democratic Party in South\n Carolina would unquestionably support him\n [Charles Cotesworth Pinckney]; the late\n convention at New York confided that \"unless\n this point can be gained...we [the Federalists]\n shall again miscarry;\" no times have been more\n perilous than the present because of the\n internal changes wrought \"by a party always\n hostile to our constitution\" and because of\n even greater external threats; if the present\n foreign policy with France is continued, the\n United States \"will soon become an empty name\"\n and will no longer be independent; has spent\n his time on agricultural pursuits instead of\n professional duty, and scarcely ever reads a\n newspaper, but the nation's troubles are too\n serious for him to continue to do so; the\n Virginia Federalists may win three or four\n seats in the next Congress, but there is no\n hope for the presidential election.","Requests him to pay James Brown one thousand\n dollars when his [John Marshall's] quarterly\n salary accrues on October 1.","Richmond Federalists have mutinied, and have\n recommended to their brethren throughout\n Virginia to support the Monroe ticket; was out\n of town but attempts to explain the reasons for\n such action.","Is honored to be chosen as a corresponding\n member of the Massachusetts Historical Society;\n as he will not return to Washington, [D.C.]\n until February, perhaps some member of Congress\n might find room in his baggage for the volume\n he [John Eliot] mentioned.","Asks him to send the collections of the\n Society.","Discusses arrangements being made with Mr.\n [?] Willing and [?] Francis to take his [John\n Marshall] two sons, [John and James Keith\n Marshall], into their counting house when they\n reach the age of 16; outlines their recommended\n course of study before then; Mr. [?] Waln[?]\n will receive his [John Marshall] other son,\n [Edward Carrington Marshall], into his\n mercantile establishment, if the precarious\n state of the country: commerce permits it, when\n he comes of age; asks if he should send his\n [John Marshall] half-pipe of wine to Richmond\n by way of Norfolk.","Including Ph. 1 page. Incomplete.","Acknowledges letters of Apr. 22, 29, and 30.\n Outlines patents to Virginia land. Philip\n Pendleton, Anderson, and Hunter involved in\n caveat; advises against use of treasury warrant\n for 1,180 acres. Colston. Decision in Hunter\n and Fairfax case, decided in favor of Hunter.\n Asks Lee's opinion as to appeal to Supreme\n Court; John Marshall favors appeal; sending\n record; Jones to be engaged as attorney to help\n Lee. Cause precedent for pending caveats if\n Supreme Court \"against us,\" save expense; if\n \"in our favor,\" probably respected or ascertain\n points for ultimate determination \"in our\n favor.\"","Is gratified by the compliments he [John\n Marshall] paid to him in his last letter, and\n hopes to continue his service to the country;\n has not learned if [?] Serruier is charged with\n any special orders to the government; [?]\n Turreau has for some time desired to return to\n France; asks him [John Marshall] for a proper\n statement of an anecdote concerning Temple\n Franklin and Benjamin Franklin Bache's\n unsuccessful attempts to establish a newspaper,\n which he [John Marshall] related to him last\n year.","Including Pst of ALS. 2 pages.","Upon his return from the \"laborious\n relaxation\" of his farm, he found the\n President's [Madison] message, the report of\n the committee of foreign relations, and the\n declaration of war against Great Britain.","Accepts his invitation to dine with him.","Accepts his invitation to dine with him on\n Wednesday.","Cannot direct the special court he [Littleon\n Wailer Tazewell] requested because the law\n authorizing a circuit judge to perform the\n duties of a district judge is limited only to\n the case of the disability of an existing\n district judge, and does not extend to the case\n of a vacancy of that office; has notified the\n Secretary of State of the public hardships if\n an appointment is postponed.","Received a copy of his book, Historical\n Letters, and asks Mr. [?] Pleasant to sign him\n up as a subscriber; comments favorably upon the\n work, a comparative history of the nations of\n the world.","Received his cheek for $500 and letter upon\n his [John Marshall] return from North Carolina;\n will receive four sets of \n The Life of\n Washington from \n Mr. [Mason\n Locke] Weems ; discusses a case of\n Admiralty business which he had just heard in\n circuit court and asks for his [Bushrod\n Washington] opinion; is anxious to terminate\n next court's business so he can devote himself\n to the farm.","Including TCy of ALS. 2 pages.","Discusses whether the power to pass\n bankruptcy laws resides in the states or in the\n federal government; discusses part of\n Constitution which inhibits passage of \"law\n impairing the obligation of contracts\" and how\n it relates to bankruptcy laws; says he [Bushrod\n Washington] heard the argument and his opinion\n could be relied upon better than his.","Asks what provision is made for them at\n their session; will he make accommodations for\n them; asks \"Are we to have peace; or is the war\n to be continued till we are dismembered?\"","Asks him [Bushrod Washington] to ask the\n counting house of Messrs. Willing \u0026 Francis\n if they are still willing to take his [John\n Marshall] fifteen year old son James (now a\n student at Cambridge) into their firm.","Has made inquiries in response to his\n letter; land for which taxes are unpaid before\n August will be sold; payment can be made to the\n Sheriff of the county; discusses George\n Washington letters and how he thinks they\n should be published; asks him to settle a\n newspaper account for him.","Encloses a copy of a letter from Robert\n Colston in which he [Robert Colston] complains\n of his [John Ambler's] withholding payment and\n threatens him John Ambler] with a lawsuit;\n suggests that he [John Ambler] give Mr. Colston\n an order on Mr. [?] Smith for the amount in\n question with as little delay as possible.","Discusses civil admiralty jurisdiction about\n which he had formed an opinion from the\n characters in a case of piracy not from\n precedent; wishes him to discuss revision of \n \"The Life\" [of George\n Washington] with Mr. Wayne while he is\n in Philadelphia; explains his ideas for the\n organization of the work; says it must be\n prepared at leisure and not offered until there\n is a demand for it.","Encloses a memorandum from the Auditors'\n office concerning William Marshall's lands in\n Nason and Franklin counties, [Kentucky], and a\n letter which he wishes delivered to his sister\n [Jane (Marshall) Taylor]; she desired him to\n engage a house for her at Fauquier Court\n House.","Encloses a memorandum from the Filson club.\n 2 pages. Including TCy of ALS.","After reading the recipient's address to the\n New York Historical Society, he sends him his\n thoughts on the study of history.","Discusses the Washington social life; is\n impressed with the French minister and his wife\n [?]; \n [William]\n Wirt arrived yesterday but he brought no\n letters; warns her to take enough blankets to\n arm herself against the intense cold when she\n goes to Chiccahoniiny [sic] on February 21.","Including Pat of ALS. 2 pages.","Asks Marshall to administer the Presidential\n oath to him.","Including Pst of ALS. 1 page. Also including\n TCy of ALS. 1 page.","Agrees to administer the Presidential oath\n of office to James Monroe.","Including Ph. neg. of ALS. 1 page.","Has read in \n Jaquelin\n [Marshall]'s last letter news of her ill\n health, and advises her not to expose herself\n to the cold in her fears of being too warm; he\n is in good health and is busily employed. 1\n page. ALS. Including ALS on verso from John\n Marshall, to his son [John?], discussing farm\n matters, and asking him to receive the\n overseer's letter concerning such things as\n preparing the soil with plaster of paris\n grubbing, cutting, and burning; does not want\n him to send packages by post, but by private\n conveyance if available; sends him a note for\n $60 to pay Mr.[?] Cocke for 20 barrels of corn;\n asks about \n James [Keith\n Marshall] and hopes he has engaged in a\n course of reading.","Also Including TCy of ALS. l page. Also\n Including Pst of ALS. 2 pages.","Encloses a letter from \n \n General [Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du\n Motier, Marquis de] Lafayette , which he\n has been unable to deliver in person, as the\n General had instructed; saw \n Juge\n [sic] [Bushrod] Washington several months\n earlier, and was informed by him that Mr. [?]\n Graham returned to Lafayette the General's\n papers, which Marshall had borrowed.","Including ALS, 22 April 1817, from \n [Marquis de]\n Lafayette , La grange, [France], to John\n Marshall, United States, Virginia. Introducing\n his friend M. des Caves; praises Marshall's\n biography of Washington and says that most of\n his correspondence with Washington was lost\n during the French Revolution; mentions the\n copies of Washington's letters to him, which he\n desires to be returned to him by Bushrod\n Washington; recommends M. desCaves to him [John\n Marshall].","Including TCy of ALS. 2 pages.","Is unable to accept his invitation to dine\n with him because of his health.","Requests that his case before the \n [Supreme]\n Court be given a day's respite as the\n extremes of weather have incapacitated him.","Has received and finally read the address\n which he presented to the New York\n Historical Society; was much pleased with\n its clarity and lucid arrangement, and feels\n the public would like to see more from his\n pen.","Asks for information about nail making\n machines in Boston, for a friend of his who\n might like to purchase one; the opinion in\n the Banks case \"has roused the sleeping\n spirit of Virginia\" and will be attacked in\n the papers.","Asks him to purchase books for his [John\n Marshall] nephew, [?] Taylor who is at\n school in Kentucky; makes arrangements to\n pay the bookseller and [?] Deiplaine, and to\n have him send the volumes, including \" \n Terence [sic] \u0026\n Livy in Latin, Longinus , \n Thucydides, \u0026\n Demosthenes in Greek , also \n Xenophens retreat of\n the 10,000 \" to his [John Marshall]\n brother, \n Doctor\n [Louis] Marshall , in Kentucky;\n discusses dissatisfaction of Virginian\n politicians with the Supreme Court's opinion\n on the Bank question; \"we shall be denounced\n bitterly in the papers... and we shall\n undoubtedly be condemned as a pack of\n consolidating aristocratics;\" mentions\n unexpected and long unheard of financial\n distress of Richmond merchants.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page. Also\n including Pst of ALS. 2 pages.","Extracted from a letter of Joseph Story's\n to John Marshall describing a $1000\n nail-making machine invented by Mr. [?]\n Perkins, and used extensively in the\n Amesbury Factory near Salem, Massachusetts;\n also describes two different, less expensive\n models patented by Mr. [?] Reed [?], and\n discusses arrangements for their sale and\n delivery.","Discusses an error in his published\n manuscript [of a court decision?] which he\n [John Marshall] wishes Mr. [ ] Bronson to\n correct.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page. Including\n Pst of ALS. 1 page.","Discusses the gross misrepresentations\n the Democratic-Republicans have attributed\n to the Court's opinion in the Bank case in\n order to excite ferment in the masses; asks\n his advice on a case in Admiralty Court,\n that the \n Little\n Charles , libeled for violating the\n 1808 Embargo Act.","If the publication of his [John Marshall]\n work has not yet commenced, he would rather\n have the signature changed to \"A\n Constitutionalist\"; the letters of\n Amphyction and of Hampden have had more\n influence in the country than in Richmond;\n hopes some respectable legislators will\n refute them.","Questions him [Joseph Story] about an\n admiralty case concerning the hypothecation\n of a vessel belonging to the port of\n Richmond; discusses legal principles of\n hypothecation in general in the United\n States; does not think that a piece in the\n Boston papers should be republished, Mr. [?]\n Wheaton's appendix; leaves the opinion in\n the militia case for him [Joseph Story] to\n write.","Discusses the legal principles of\n hypothecation and maritime law as he [Joseph\n Story] sees them in regards to a case in New\n York, and concludes that the chief-question\n is \"whether the ports of the different\n states are to be deemed foreign ports in\n respect to the rights of the hypothecation\n or of implied lien\"; in his [Joseph Story]\n district, as well as in South Carolina,\n Maryland, Pennsylvania, and New York, they\n are; he [Joseph Story] \"is open to argument\n and will follow in a better path. And as the\n advancement of the law, and not merely of\n our private opinions should be the great\n ambition of all judges, I am quite content\n to yield to the judgement of others.\"","Mentions a trial at Richmond for piracy\n and discusses the lack of international law\n regarding the same; writes of his\n subscription to Mr. Bronson's \n Gazette of the United\n States which has become the \n Union .","Discusses constitutional issues involving\n piracy, the slave trade, and the Supreme Court;\n mentions \n \n [Littleton Waller] Tazewell .","Has not formed an opinion of the case which\n was remanded to the circuit court of\n Pennsylvania; congratulates him on the prospect\n of a full docket in \n [New] Jersey and\n upon his empty one in North Carolina; he called\n on Mr. Blair, the President of the Bible\n Society, who says he [Bushrod Washington] was a\n permanent member of the society and in arrears\n for the years 1816-1819; was frozen on the \n Rosaline , has\n scarcely thawed out.","Hopes none of the papers of George\n Washington have miscarried; sent the last ones\n to him [Bushrod Washington] by a coal vessel of\n Alexandria; has employed a person to copy the\n pre-Revolutionary letters of General\n Washington, and he [John Marshall] will himself\n copy the military letters in his possession\n after he [Bushrod Washington] informs him in\n which volume they will be published; he [John\n Marshall] will also proceed to copy the letters\n written between the close of the war and the\n adoption of the constitution, and has retained\n no others.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page. Including Pst\n of ALS. 2 pages.","Encloses an affidavit stating that he [John\n Marshall] lost the certification meant for \n T[homas?]\n Marshall and asks him [Bushrod\n Washington] to send from Philadelphia a bond to\n be executed; has received from Mr. Ward of\n Salem a copy of a letter written by \n Mr. W[illia]m\n Fairfax to Capt. Clarke of Salem dated\n Belvoir 22d. February 1749, which states that\n \"Major Washington [has] just returned from\n London whither he lately went to get his\n arrears of pay \u0026 be put on the\n establishment of half pay...\" concludes that\n this cannot be George Washington; poses\n questions about George Washington's genealogy;\n asks him [Bushrod Washington] to talk with the\n editor of Langhornes' Plutarch while in\n Philadelphia about an anecdote concerning\n George Washington selling his old charger.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page. Including Pst\n of ALS. 2 pages.","Discusses Mr. Moorehead's purchase of Mr.\n Johnson's land in Fauquier County; wheat and\n other crops are doing well.","Describes being thrown by a horse; will\n bring the letters they agreed to copy to\n Washington; wishes him to speak again with Mr.\n Wayne about a second edition of the life of \n [George]\n Washington ; recommends that \n Mr. [Mason\n Locke] Weems have a subscription paper\n for the letters and life at the same time;\n thinks they should reduce the charges on the\n life to half a dollar per volume, then the\n second volume might be sold for two dollars a\n volume.","Hopes his [Bushrod Washington] health will\n improve so he can come visit at the end of the\n month so they can deliver opinions on various\n cases including the one from Virginia \"which\n has exerted so much commotion in our\n legislature\" [a case involving an act of\n Congress allowing a lottery in Washington, D.C.\n with ticket sales in Virginia contrary to\n Virginia law. See JK/159l/V5/Rare Book\n (Virginia)/].","A letter of \n James [Keith\n Marshall]'s informed him [John Marshall]\n of her return from Chicahominy; hopes that the\n celebrations of the 22nd did not disturb her\n too much; \n Judge\n [Bushrod] Washington is not well; he\n [John Marshall] is very busy at Court; dines\n out frequently and eats too much; does not\n attend the continual gay parties in Washington.\n 2 pages. ALS. Including ALS on verso from John\n Marshall to his son [James Keith Marshall],\n asking about the health of Jacob, one of the\n slaves; tells him to purchase as much clover\n seed as he can if he does not get the money\n from [?] Smith.","Including Pst of ALS. 2 pages.","Hopes his health was not injured by his\n traveling to Philadelphia to perform his\n circuit duties; mentions case in his circuit\n involving merchants indebted to the U.S. on\n duty bonds; recommends the writings of Algernon\n Sidney.","Asks his opinion of legalities of a case\n concerning insolvency and priority of payment\n to creditors; the Supreme Court opinion in the\n Lottery case virulently assaulted in the\n newspapers, especially by Algernon Sidney in\n the \n Enquirer who is\n \"supposed to be the champion of the state\n rights.. .[but] really is the champion of\n dismemberment;\" is anxious to hear if his\n [Joseph Story] and \n [Daniel]\n Webster's amendment to the Massachusetts\n constitution was approved by the people or\n not.","Discusses legal principles of partnership,\n joint property and the priority of the payment\n of debts under English and American bankruptcy\n laws; writes of the federal government; reports\n on the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention;\n will send on the next vessel for Richmond some\n Salem fish and a recipe on how to cook\n them.","Thanks him for his opinion on the case on\n which he [John Marshall] consulted him; has\n enclosed the letter from \n Mr. [James]\n Madison to Genl. Washington which he\n [John Marshall] had selected last winter but\n forgot to send; discusses the legal matter of\n inland and foreign bills and hypothecation\n relating to the New York case.","Including TyC of ALS. 1 page. Including Pst\n of ALS. 2 pages.","Is grateful for his expressions of esteem;\n hopes the harmony of the bench will never be\n disturbed; discusses \n [Thomas]\n Jefferson's and \n [James]\n Madison's doubts of the Supreme Court as\n the ultimate arbiter of the constitutional\n questions; comments upon Jefferson's character\n and influence over the people; encloses\n Algernon Sidney's essays with their weak\n argument and violent language; in the Virginian\n newspapers \"not a pen is drawn in support of\n the sound principles of the constitution of the\n Union... I look elsewhere for safety.\"","Has received the fish and will cook it\n according to instructions; discusses Mr. [?]\n Hall and his intended publication of Algernon\n Sidney's essays and asks if he [Joseph Story]\n can prevent it; Mr. [?] Caedwell has not yet\n sent the volume of the debates of the\n Massachusetts Constitutional Convention;\n discusses the designs of the\n Democratic-Republicans in attacking the Supreme\n Court; questions him about a case involving\n William McKinly, a tax collector, and his\n depositions.","Asks him to join him at dinner on Tuesday at\n 4 o'clock.","Makes arrangements for his [Littleton Waller\n Tazewell's] deposition to be taken on 23 May;\n if \n \n General [Robert Barraud] Taylor and Mr.\n [?] Blair are out of town, send for magistrates\n and have the necessary steps taken.","Has received the President's message to\n Congress concerning internal improvements, \"a\n question which very much divides the opinions\n of intelligent men;\" \"a general power over\n internal improvements, if to be exercised by\n the Union, would certainly be cumbersome to the\n government, \u0026 of no utility to the people.\n But to the extent you recommend, it would be\n productive of no mischief, and of great good;\"\n he [John Marshall] despairs that such a measure\n will be adopted.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","Has found in the Journal of the House of\n Delegates that the bill for confiscating Lord\n Fairfax's estate passed in January 1786, but\n was defeated in the Senate; discusses the role\n of the Supreme Court in deciding cases relating\n to treaties; will not be at Happy Creek before\n 6 August; will also visit Cumberland, Mr.\n Colston's and maybe Bath.","Including TCy of ALS. 2 pages.","Grants power of attorney to him [Benjamin\n Watkyns [sic] Leigh] to make or endorse any\n notes given by Edward Colston, James Marshall\n or \n James\n M[arkham] Marshall for the purpose of\n paying a debt to the Bank of the United States\n due from Nimrod Farrow or from the estate of \n Turner [?]\n Dixon .","Asked Mr. [?] Williams about the information\n he [Jaquelin B. Harrie] desired; he [Williams]\n wrote that he gave his letter to the delegate\n from Florida, who has yet to answer it.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","Discusses his trip from Richmond and the\n rainy weather; did not find Mr. [?] Skinker at\n home, so arrived last night at his friend's \n General [?]\n Blackwell's , who is almost blind; Tom\n [Thomas Marshall] was there earlier\n electioneering; the election will be closer\n than he [John Marshall] had originally\n thought.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page. Also including\n Pst of ALS. 2 pages.","Met his son, \n Edward\n C[arrington] Marshall ; introduced him to\n several gentlemen in Boston, and recommended\n him to the President of Harvard College; made\n arrangements for him [Edward Carrington\n Marshall] to live in Cambridge and to be\n tutored until rooms at the College are assigned\n after commencement; discusses his [Edward\n Carrington Marshall] expenses; takes great\n pleasure in aiding him in all measures;\n discusses his [John Marshall] latest decision\n on the Cashier of the Branch Bank of the United\n States; is anxious about the appointment of \n \n [Supreme Court] Judge [Henry B.]\n Livingston's successor.","Thanks him for his friendly attentions to\n his [John Marshall's] son, [Edward Carrington\n Marshall]; gives his opinion of the case of the\n Bank of the United\n States v. Dandridge ; alarmed at the\n rumored successor of their \"much lamented\n friend\" [Supreme Court Justice Henry B.\n Livingston].","Discusses libels against his father, John\n Lowell, and against himself; encloses letters\n to editors printed in local papers in\n defense.","Including NCls. 6 pages.","Received his letters of 25 and 28 October\n and was astonished to learn that he feels he\n [John Marshall] deliberately and unnecessarily\n \"altered expressions which would be construed\n into the imputation of a crime..., against a\n gentleman...\"; there was no evidence in the\n cases decision that his [John Lowell] testimony\n was disregarded or discredited-- \"the opinion\n speaks for itself.\"","Brother \n [Bushrod]\n Washington had to adjourn the court at\n Philadelphia because of his illness; discusses\n a case on his [John Marshall's] circuit\n concerning the American ship, \n Pilot , captured\n by pirates and later recaptured by a squadron\n under \n Commodore\n [David] Porter ; comments upon the\n extreme bitterness of \n Mr. [John]\n Adams , whom he still respects, and the\n publication of some of his correspondence.","Received the President's message to\n Congress, and thanks him for his mark of polite\n attention; he [John Marshall] too thinks that\n \"we cannot look on the present state of the\n world with indifference.\"","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","Thanks him for the report of the Secretary\n of the Treasury.","Was uneasy that she heard of his accident\n before his letter reached her; his fall has\n kept him from court longer than he had\n expected; feels pain only when he moves;\n doctors say he is mending faster than they had\n expected; is treated with a great deal of\n kindness and attention; wives of the cabinet\n members call on him; passes the long hours of\n the night by thinking of her and their early\n life together.","Including Pst of ALS. 2 pages.","Will soon return to Richmond by steamboat;\n makes arrangements to have his servant, Oby,\n meet him at the dock to carry his portmanteau;\n is not able to use his arm; was surprised to\n see \n \n John and Elizabeth [(Alexander)\n Marshall] , who were in town because the\n boat on which they traveled was being repaired,\n and they were making their way to Baltimore by\n stage.","Including Pst of ALS. 2 pages.","Missed seeing him at Hanover Court House on\n Monday, presumably because of the cloudiness of\n the weather; will be there next court day to\n meet him unless it is inconvenient, in which\n case he [Tom] should let him [John Marshall]\n know immediately.","Has just finished reading the copy of his\n \"Dissertation on the Nature and Extent of the\n Jurisdiction of the Courts of the United\n States,\" which he sent to him [John Marshall];\n thanks him for the flattering manner in which\n he discusses some of his [John Marshall]\n opinions.","Thanks for sending a copy of his message to\n Congress; regrets that he [Monroe] is retiring,\n but congratulates him on his presidency.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","Reached Washington yesterday and paid his\n accustomed visit to the President; he [John\n Marshall] occupies the same room as last year;\n neither \n Judge\n [William] Johnson nor \n [Joseph]\n Story has arrived, and \n [Thomas]\n Todd is close to death; the roads were so\n good for the winter, he was glad he did not\n take the steamboat; rode from Hanover\n Courthouse to Fredericksburg with a Mrs.\n (Booth) Stone; dined with his aunt [?] Keith on\n Sunday; his nephew, William Marshall, visited\n him on Saturday; hopes that Mr. [?] Picket has\n filled the ice house already.","Including Pst of AL. 2 pages.","Discusses presidential election of 1824;\n ascribes it to the letters of [?] Kremer and to\n Mr. [?] Vanraensaeller's reluctant last-minute\n vote for [John Quincy] Adams; speculates about\n the Cabinet; including Mr. [?] Crawford's\n refusal of the Treasury, and \n [Henry]\n Clay's rumored acceptance of the State\n Department.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","Has received letters from his son and from\n his nephew, George [?], and has learned of the\n marriage of his [John Marshall] nephew, Edward\n Colston, who has moved to Honeywood, [Berkeley\n County, Virginia]; asks her to inform Mr. [?]\n Cole that he [John Marshall] has received his\n new black suit, and that \n [George]\n Kremer will soon print \"a most scurrilous\n piece of abuse against \n [Henry] Clay [an\n anonymous letter in the \n Columbia\n Observer accusing him of bargaining with\n John Quincy Adams to give his support in the\n presidential election in return for the office\n of Secretary of State]; her [Mary Willis Ambler\n Marshall] cousin, Mrs. [?] Walker, thanked him\n for his check and the subscription raised for\n her by the members of Congress.","Including Pst of AL. 2 pages.","Asks him to accept a copy of his\n [Marshall's] colonial history; congratulations\n him on the successful termination of his\n political career.","Is much honored by his election to the\n Bunker Hill Monument Association and asks what\n his membership will entail.","Has received his letters and documents\n stating his [Monroe's] claims on the U.S.;\n expects that he [Monroe] will receive as much\n as has ever been allowed to others for similar\n services.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","Thanks her for her letter recommending [?]\n Caldwell, but he has already pledged himself to\n another person seeking office.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","In response to his [John Marshall's]\n requests in his last letter, he [John Sergeant]\n is enclosing copies of Mr. [?] Giles' speech\n found in Dunlap and Claypoole's 16 December\n 1796 paper and in the \n Aurora of the\n 15th sources located at the [?] Library; and\n germane to his biography of Washington.","Thanks him for a copy of his [John\n Marshall's] history of the English colonies\n of North America which Joseph Story\n delivered a few weeks earlier; quotes Lord\n Kames [?] from his \n The Gentleman\n Farmer (1779); \"I disregard the\n present rebellion of our Americans; for they\n will soon be reduced to obedience;\"\n discusses present westward movement of the\n American population and predicts a new\n western confederacy of the movement of the\n national capital westward in the next\n generation; comments upon his [John\n Marshall's] statements on slavery,\n mentioning \n \n Colonel [Edward] Carrington's and \n Mr.\n [Thomas] Jefferson's views on\n miscegenation and the Colonization Society's\n efforts; discusses Georgia's \n \n Governor [George M.] Troup's detested\n views on the slaves and Creek Indians, which\n seem to be held by most Georgians, who would\n defy the authority of the Union if they\n dared; that authority rests on \"the purity,\n the intellegence and the firmness\" of the\n Supreme Court; hopes he [John Marshall] long\n remains at the head.","Has read \n Mr.\n [William Branch] Giles' latest article\n in the \n Richmond\n Enquirer on John Quincy Adams, which\n attributes his [John Quincy Adams's] \"past\n conversion to \n \n Jeffersonism \" to \" \n his own personal\n promotion and aggrandizement; \" Giles\n claims that Adams' message indicated his\n intentions to introduce unlimited powers\n into the government, but he [Timothy\n Pickering] disagrees; discusses Adams'\n policies regarding internal improvements, a\n national university, and the promotion of\n agriculture, all of which Washington\n recommended, and their constitutionality;\n discusses Giles, his character, and his\n political ambitions; writes of James\n Monroe's and William Pinckney's treaty with\n Great Britain and their letter to Congress,\n Monroe's bid for the Presidency, and his\n subsequent reconciliation with Jefferson;\n mentions Secretary of the State Robert\n Smith's correspondence with the British\n Minister [?] Jackson; his resignation, and\n published defense; discusses the death of\n Virginian U.S. District Court Judge Cyrus\n Griffin and the appointment of his successor\n John Tyler, ex-Governor of Virginia; which\n was made to make room for Monroe as\n Governor; Monroe was appointed to the State\n Department, \"the vestibule to the\n President's Palace,\" when Smith resigned;\n discusses Jefferson's motives for not laying\n the treaty with Great Britain before\n Congress; concludes with Joseph Hopkinson's\n thoughts on Jefferson, Madison, and\n Monroe.","Left Alexandria for Washington a day\n early because the weather was good for\n traveling; he, \n [Bushrod]\n Washington , and \n [Gabriel]\n Duval await the arrival of their\n brother \n Justices\n [Joseph] Story and \n [Smith]\n Thompson ; Judge Johnson went by way\n of Norfolk and will not arrive till\n Wednesday or Thursday; \n Judge\n [Thomas] Todd is unable to make the\n journey; discusses his journey and health:\n \"I am under the persecution of the\n infuenza;\" will open the court and wait on\n the President tomorrow.","Including Pst of ALS. 2 pages.","Discusses his daily routine and his\n health; \n [Judge\n Joseph] Story arrived today; he was\n delayed a week in Philadelphia by influenza;\n discusses a loan of $200 to Tom [Thomas\n Marshall, his son]; has received three\n invitations for dinner parties this week;\n discusses the gaiety of the Washington\n social scene; jests about Lucy Fisher [his\n niece] marrying [Dr. Daniel Norborne Norton]\n and persuading him to run for Congress.","John [Marshall,\n his son] passed through the city, but\n he did not have a chance to see him; was\n pleased to hear that she was well, expecting\n \"the uncommon warmth of the season had\n relaxed your system so as to distress your\n feelings;\" he enjoys his usual health; \"was\n at a very great crowd at \n Mrs.\n [John Quincy] Adams' drawing room;\"\n dined yesterday with \n \n Mr. [John] Randolph [of Roanoke] who\n is as much engaged in party politics as he\n has always been.","Including Pst of ALS. 2 pages.","Congratulates him on his good health;\n gives his thoughts on Southern slavery;\n mentions Georgia's Governor [George M.\n Troup] and the treaty with the Creeks;\n discusses \n Mr.\n [William Branch] Giles ; thanks him\n for his recollections of the events of the\n last twenty years.","Has received his letter expressing his\n interest in the position of the clerk of the\n Supreme Court; the applicants are numerous\n and worthy; recalls their former\n acquaintance, and is confident in his\n competence, but wants to make such an\n important appointment \"without any\n pre-engagements.\"","Replies to his letter recommending Mr.\n [?] Randall for the vacant office in the\n Clerkship of the Supreme Court; discusses\n his feelings regarding the appointment; has\n been having trouble with famine and\n drought.","Discusses marriage arrangements of his\n son \n \n Edward [Carrington Marshall] with the\n Judge's daughter.","Apologizes for his last letter of 15\n September 1826; did not realize that he\n [Fay] was opposed to Edward Carrington\n Marshall's marriage to his [Fay's] daughter;\n \"I hope Edward has received notice of your\n decision... It will be [a] kindness to\n awaken him as soon as possible from the\n dreams of happiness in which he has been too\n long indulging.\"","Has finally discovered the letters in the\n Aurora from 23\n October to 5 November 1795 written by the\n \"Calm Observer\" relating to the charge of\n illegal payment of the President's salary\n and the replies thereto by \n [Alexander]\n Hamilton and \n O.[?]\n Wolcott ; these were not written by \n [William\n Branch] Giles ; \n Judge\n [Bushrod] Washington had to break up\n his court because of ill-health.","Has received his letter by Mr. [?]\n Doddridge; apologizes for any inconvenience\n which may be caused by the disposal of the\n letters of recommendation which the\n recipient sent by Mr. [?] Rowan and Colonel\n [?] Johnson.","Discusses legal principles involved in\n the Fairfax lands case.","Including TCy of ALS. 4 pages.","Has seen in the papers discussions between\n his brother Johnson [?] and him [Timothy\n Pickering] respecting Count Pulaske [Pulaski]\n and the Battle of Germantown; \"with the\n exception of Judge [?] Peters, yourself, \u0026 \n Mr. [?]\n Wolcot[t] I can scarcely find any person\n who was conspicuous on the great theatre of our\n country when I first began to mix in public\n affairs;\" asks if he will travel south to\n Washington; discusses George Washington and his\n firmness of character.","Encloses a check on the bank of Winchester\n for $600 to be endorsed to Mr. [?] Smith; was\n surprised that the sale of the land was $200\n less than he thought; Alexander Marshall\n informed him [John Marshall] that he settled\n $200 which he owed him with Mr. Smith; finished\n cutting his wheat and rye last week; his corn\n has suffered from the cold wet spring and now\n from drought; discusses weather and crop\n pests.","Including Pst of ALS. 3 pages.","Discusses the science of agriculture and\n whether or not it should be taught at a\n university.","Has read the review which will be published\n in the forthcoming January 1828 edition of the \n North American\n Review of his [John Marshall's] \n History of the\n Colonies ; encloses a copy of it; hopes\n to meet him in January and introduce Mrs. Story\n to him.","Has received his flattering letter and\n biography of him and warmly expresses his\n gratitude; accommodations for Mrs. Story may be\n had at Mr. [?] Rapine's in Washington;\n discusses the present contest for the\n Presidency; fears that \"our constitution is not\n to be so long lived as its real friends have\n hoped.\"","Thanks him for a copy of his speech on\n \"retrenchment and reform;\" intended to call\n on him, but the pressure of official duties\n and the indolence of age have prevented\n it.","Including TCy of ALS. 2 pages.","Must decline his invitation to be his\n companion on the \n \n Potomac because of his ill health;\n Mr. [?] Sheppherd has given a good account\n of \"our Jacobin Banker's Clerk\" [?];\n discusses Sheppherd's and the clerk's\n lives.","Begs him to accept his portrait painted\n by \n Mr.\n [Chester] Harding in Washington as a\n token of his sincere and affectionate\n friendship; will not send it to Richmond\n until \n Mr.\n [Horatio] Greenough casts his bust;\n enjoyed a pleasant trip from Washington to\n Richmond where he has seen none but his\n family since his return; the spirit of party\n is extremely bitter, but he plans to leave\n for the upper country; had one of his\n [Joseph Story's] fish yesterday; received\n news from Mr. [?] McGruder of the loss of\n his [John Marshall's] sortout.","Takes the liberty to write him; regrets\n that it was necessary for him [John\n Marshall] to announce publicly his feelings\n on the election, because it will not subject\n him to the abuse of the partisans.","Did not have a chance to answer \n Mr.\n [Chester] Harding's letter asking what\n should be done with his [John Marshall's]\n portrait; if he [Chester Harding] is in\n Boston, have him deliver it to you [Joseph\n Story]; asks him [Joseph Story] to take care\n of it till he [John Marshall] can have it\n and his bust sent to Richmond; discusses how\n the \n \n Marylander misquoted him on the\n coming election; an epidemic has prevailed\n extensively in Richmond.","Has received his letter and is grateful\n for his kind words; although the still burnt\n Kentucky Whiskey is nauseous to my palate,\n \"I can yet enjoy the aroma of an exquisite\n glass of Madeira, or Paxasete, or Burgundy\n and I doubt whether my head would have been\n more affected by a bottle of Clos Von gedt,\n capped with another of such [silvery?]\n Champagne, than by your truly kind\n note.\"","Discusses the recipient's proposed\n amendment to a bill before the House of\n Representatives concerning the U.S. Circuit\n Court System.","Letter declining their honor of joining\n the Richmond and Manchester Sabbath School\n in a 4th of July procession, not because he\n does not believe in the principles inspiring\n it, but because he must leave town due to\n Mrs. Marshall's feeble health; (the letter\n was probably written and signed by a\n secretary).","Cannot satisfy his request to send him\n letters with autographs of the Virginian\n signers of the Declaration of Independence\n as they have not been preserved or contain\n private communications; has read and enjoyed\n the sermons he sent; discusses the nature of\n church and state in post-Revolutionary\n Virginia; gratified by his [William B.\n Sprague's] sermon on intemperance and gives\n his [John Marshall's] views on the\n subject.","Discusses a land case concerning Mrs. [?]\n Clarke and Mr. [?] Swan, and Mr. [?]\n Pollard; have no further communications with\n Swan as \"he has no idea of...frank dealing\";\n Mr. [?] Fiske wrote that he can lend money\n for Mrs. [?] Carrington; please send down\n his [John Marshall's] ponies with Charles\n Smith or Mr. [?] Colston.","Has just received Mr. [?] Triplett's\n letter and is willing to allow him 20%\n commission on the money he may collect from\n the estate of Mr. [?] Davies [?]; discusses\n arrangements for drawing money on his [John\n Marshall's] account; asks him to pay costs\n incurred in the execution of the above\n matter; discusses election of \n General\n [Andrew] Jackson .","Makes arrangements to pay [ ] $1000 to\n Swan for a land purchase.","Has received his letter concerning news\n of the birth of \n \n Margaret's [(Lewis)\n Marshall]'s nephew; mentions health of\n his family, including the children's\n whooping cough; prices in the Alex[andri]a\n flour market and how the dry weather is\n affecting crops; writes of his own\n agricultural efforts, including the\n operation of a large roller for his corn\n fields; has been unable to send down the\n horses; will attend a sale at Westover on\n Mr. [?] Lewis's request; Mr. Lewis, Mr. [?]\n Coiston, and \n Mr.\n Cha[rle]s B. Smith are not able to\n take the horses to him [John Marshall] or to\n Aunt [?] Carrington.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","Has finished reading his centennial\n discourse on the first settlement of Salem;\n was touched by his portrayal of the story of\n the Indians; especially enjoyed the passages\n respecting the Lady Arabella Johnson; read\n with interest his sketch of the recently\n deceased \n [Robert]\n Trimble , brother Supreme Court\n Justice; congratulates him on the\n appointment of \n [Joseph]\n Hopkinson [to the Eastern District of\n Pennsylvania District Court Judgeship].","The case will not be finished till\n Saturday and he [John Marshall] will not be\n home till Tuesday; had a pleasant sail down\n the river to Norfolk; boards in a very\n agreeable house.","Including Pst of ALS. 1 page.","Requests him to purchase two more copies\n of \n [Joseph]\n Story's three volume [ \n Public and General\n Statutes passed by the Congress of the\n United States, 1789-1827 ] for the\n Supreme Court.","The sick [Supreme Court] judges have\n arrived; he continues his morning walks;\n they dined with the President and \n Mrs.\n [John Quincy] Adams on Friday;\n discusses their feelings on \n [Andrew]\n Jackson's election; Jackson is\n expected in the city in a fortnight;\n mentions Mrs. Jackson's death; discusses his\n [John Marshall's] dinner invitations; tell\n Mr. [?] Call [Cole?] the secretaries are\n sick, and \n [Henry]\n Clay caught a cold by attending the\n colonization society; discusses the upcoming\n inauguration.","Including Pst of ALS. 2 pages. Also\n including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","Encloses a letter to be sent to Mr. [?]\n Payne; imagines that Oby has carried out the\n clover seed from the cellar; received news\n from his son \n James\n [Keith Marshall] that she was not\n well; has written to his son in a feeble\n attempt to console him [Thomas Marshall on\n the death of his wife Margaret]; receive\n news from \n Jaquelin\n [Marshall] of his new son, Jaquelin\n Jr.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page. Including\n Pst of ALS. 2 pages.","Has had no news of her and is worried;\n discusses her delicate health; received news\n from his son \n \n Edward [Carrington Marshall] who\n grieves for his brother's [Thomas's] loss;\n received a serious and very religious letter\n from Thomas, who is much occupied with his\n children and superintends his son John's\n education.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","Answers his letter of 21 February; is\n pleased that he has turned to religion and\n reason in handling his grief in losing his\n wife; is glad that he has kept John at hand\n [instead of sending him to Princeton]; an\n epidemic has hit the University [of\n Virginia] at Charlottesville, and a son of\n General [?] Jones is dying of the fever;\n this city [Washington] is full of\n office-sickness; discusses the spoils\n system.","Has received his letter enclosing a copy\n of \n Judge\n [Joseph] Hopkinson's commission; will\n attend Virginia's constitutional convention\n as a delegate; explains his feelings\n regarding his election to the convention and\n to its being convened.","Has received his letter accompanying his\n anniversary address to the Suffolk bar and \n Mr. [John]\n Brazer's discourse at the interment of\n Dr.\n [Edward] Holyoke ; advises him against\n precipitous fulfillment of the publication\n requirements for his Dane Professorship [at\n Harvard]; his attention has been turned to\n the two great cases before the Supreme\n Court; place your thoughts of them on paper;\n Mr. [Smith]\n Thompson will look into the New York\n case; discusses the matters which will come\n before the Virginia constitutional,\n convention: property qualifications, senate\n apportioning, basis of representation,\n freehold suffrage.","After much hesitation, he must complain\n to him about his barking dog which has\n distressed his [John Marshall's] wife who is\n in very poor health; is extremely apologetic\n over causing any inconvenience.","Including Pst of ALS. 1 page.\n (Incomplete).","Has read his discourses pronounced as\n Dane Professor of Law at Harvard; is\n impressed with his teaching efforts: \"Our\n southern youths would stumble at the\n threshhold [of your most appalling course]..\n .You yankees have more perseverence\"; no\n hopes that he lives to read his lectures;\n still regrets being a member of Virginia's\n constitutional convention.","Will be unable to accept his invitation\n as he is leaving town on Saturday and will\n be busy until then.","Accepts his election as \n [Bushrod]\n Washington's successor' in some\n honorary position [President of the American\n Colonization Society?].","Has finished reading his 1809 Fourth of\n July oration and his December 1828 speech\n \"on the constitutionality of the Tariff and\n the true nature of state government;\" his\n speech in the Senate was well-argued: \"Is it\n possible that South Carolina can withstand\n so powerful an appeal to... her patriotism..\n .and her real interest?\"; is flattered by\n the notice he took of the author of the Life\n of Washington [John Marshall] in his\n notes.","Writes of his son \n Edward [C.\n Marshall] who is a proud new father;\n dined with the President [Andrew Jackson]\n and his [Andrew Jackson's] niece \n \n Mrs. [Andrew Jackson] [Emily]\n Donelson ; saw Tom Francis a week ago;\n Judges\n [William] Johnson and \n [John]\n McLean do not board with the other\n judges; \n Judge\n [Smith] Thompson is sick; complains\n about not receiving his rent from his\n tenants Mr. [?] Sprigg on the Potomac and\n another at Anderson's Bottoms.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","Discusses the dinner parties which he and\n his brother Justices have attended; the\n Secretary of State [Martin van Buren] gave\n one for the new bride of the President's\n [Andrew Jackson's] nephew [?]; he dined\n yesterday with the British Minister; the\n influenza is as prevalent as it was in\n Richmond; \n Judge\n [Gabriel] Duval left town because of a\n relapse of his son; \n James\n [Kieth Marshall, his son] wrote three\n days past about his brother \n \n Edward [Carrington Marshall] ;\n mentions Washington's Birthday Celebrations\n effect on her.","Including Pst of ALS. 3 pages. Including\n TCy of ALS. 2 pages.","Heard from his granddaughter that she\n [Mary Willis Ambler Marshall] became\n indisposed upon her return from\n Chickahominy; has received a letter from his\n son James who sold his horse for $l000[?]; \n Mr. [Joseph]\n Story , who has been laid up for a\n week under the doctor's hand has returned to\n court.","Including Pst of ALS. 2 pages.","Discusses his morning routine; dined\n yesterday with Mr. [?] Swann; \n Mr. [Joseph]\n Story is still not well enough to go\n out; talked about his nephew William [?]\n with Mr. [?] Mercer; Tom Francis took a\n stage for Kentucky; saw Mr. [?] Coleman,\n husband of his niece Lucy [?], who is a\n strong Jackson man; his [John Marshall's]\n nephew \n Tom\n [Marshall] son of \n Humphry\n [Marshall] is a strong Clay man, and\n will oppose Mr. Coleman in the next\n Congressional election; party plays havoc\n with the Kentucky part of his [John\n Marshall's] family.","Encloses papers which \n Mr.\n [Francis Scott] Key could not present\n to the Court in person.","Sends his respects to the Chief Justice;\n makes arrangements to see him.","Discusses arrangements to have his\n father's [Thomas Marshall] will proved in\n the Virginia General Court so they can rule\n on his [Revolutionary War?] claim for half\n pay.","Including Pst. of ALS. 2 pages.","Discusses land transactions with Capt.\n Slaughter and Major Thompsons; mentions Mr.\n [?] John Lewis's sale of his slaves to pay\n off Warner Lewis's debts; discusses their\n financial difficulties with Mr. [?] Nicholas\n and Mr. [?] Smith; encloses a promissory\n note of Edward C. and Mary Nelson Marshall\n on the Farmers Bank of Virginia for\n $5000.","Discusses his [James Hillhouse] 1808\n proposal of electing the president by\n drawing straws among Senators; he [John\n Marshall] was opposed to it in the past, but\n has seen too much strife and bitterness in\n party politics.","Including TCy of ALS. 2 pages.","Thanks him for sending a sermon on the\n late Massachusetts Chief Justice [Isaac\n Parker] and his [Joseph Story's] own sketch\n of Parker's Character; thanks him also for a\n box of fish; is sorry that brother \n Justice\n [John] McLean could not acquiesce in\n the \n [Craig V.] Missouri\n case ; is-chagrined that so many\n cases, including Soulard, Smith and Cathcart\n and Robertson, were left incomplete at their\n last setting; discusses \n Mr. [James]\n Madison's letter to the editor of the \n North American\n Review .","Letter of reference for Capt. [?] Baylis\n who served with him during the\n Revolution.","Heard from \n Colo.[nel] [?]\n Lambert that she was in her usual\n health; discusses the latest snowfall; dined\n with the minister of France and his wife,\n neither of whom could speak English; dined\n with Secretary of State Martin van Buren\n yesterday; saw Mr. [?] Robinson yesterday\n who gave news of his [John Marshall's]\n sister \n [Elizabeth]\n Colston and her family.","Including Pst of ALS. 2 pages.","Enjoyed calling on Mrs. [?] Sedgwick\n author of \n Hope\n Leslie today; the snow and ice has\n interrupted regular mail delivery from\n Richmond; they have lost their Marshal [?]\n Ringold, whose being ousted from office will\n distress his family.","On verso, \n J[ohn]\n Marshall to [Edward Carrington\n Marshall]. Asks him to find a valuable 1776\n English pamphlet on the Declaration of\n Independence which Mr. [?] Storrs lent him\n [John Marshall] and which he misplaced.","Sent him a barrel of hams on the schooner\n King to be\n deposited with Fisher and Pewer of Boston;\n asks him what the \"wise men in the East\"\n think of the Cabinet upheaval; discusses\n arrangements for new quarters in Washington\n as the Justices will no longer be lodging\n with Mr. [?] Brown; discusses the copy of\n Algernon Sianey [\"Letters.. .in Defence of\n Civil Liberty and against the Encroachments\n of Military Despotism\"?] which he [John\n Marshall] sent him [Joseph Story] earlier;\n discusses possibility of war and the reform\n in Great Britain; will set out on his\n circuit at the end of the week.","Arrived yesterday; thanks her for the\n cushion she made him to ease his journey;\n discusses the visit of a niece.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","Received his letter and hams; regrets\n that the Court is moving out of Mr. brown's;\n would like to lodge with him [John Marshall]\n and Judge Thompson; discusses the break-up\n of the cabinet, which was a surprise to him;\n thanks him for the Algernon Sidney pamphlet;\n informs him of the death of his [Joseph\n Story's] 10 year old daughter.","Received his letters of May 25 and 31 and\n adopted his opinions respecting admiralty\n jurisdiction; discusses arrangements for\n lodgings in Washington next winter and\n explains why he cannot do anything till he\n hears from \n Judge\n [Henry] Baldwin ; sympathizes with him\n over the loss of his child; tells of his\n similar experiences; he also wrote a poem in\n the occasion of his child's death, which he\n would have enclosed, but it was lost.","Thanks him for his letter of 9 September;\n has conversed with \n Judge\n [Joseph] Story about the Declaration\n of Independence; discusses his [John Quincy\n Adams] ideas about it and the constitutional\n principles of state sovereignty, secession,\n and nullification.","Discusses his medical examination by \n \n Doctor [Philip Syng] Physick ; will\n probably not see her again till he rides the\n circuit court 22 November; the gentlemen of\n the city, especially those of the bar, are\n painfully solicitous to show their respect;\n Nr.[?] Peters and Dr. [?] Gillespie press\n him to stay with them; gives directions for\n his crops to be tended to.","Including Pst of ALS. 2 pages.","The rains of the last several days have\n prevented \n Dr.\n [Philip Syng] Physick from operating;\n discusses preparations for his medical\n treatment; missed Cary Ambler's visit\n because he was sitting for a portrait;\n Edward Ambler is in town; received a letter\n from brother \n [Joseph]\n Story ; mentions his diet.","Including Pst of ALS. 2 pages.","Discusses his medical treatment and \n \n Doctor [Philip Syng] Physick ; \n \n Brother [Justice Henry] Baldwin is\n here; discusses the arrangements for the\n Justices' lodgings in Washington, either at\n Mrs. [?] Peyton's or Mr. [?] Peters';\n explains why he did not think he would serve\n on the court at its next session; discusses\n his health and ailments of the past\n summer.","Mr. [?] Giles will give news of his\n health; describes his ailment (\"stones in\n the bladder\") and the Doctor's examination;\n his operation by \n \n Doctor [Philip Syng] Physick has been\n delayed because of the weather; describes\n the Doctor and his [John Marshall's]\n accommodations; tell Major [?] Ambler that\n his brothers Edward and Cary are in\n town.","Heard of and congratulates him on\n successful operation; regards his health as\n \"a matter of the highest national\n concernment...\"","On verso, [John Marshall, to Edward\n Everett], incomplete. Is flattered by his\n kina token; describes his tedious operation;\n thanks him for his letter.","Learned from Mr. [?] Peters that he was\n seriously indisposed; intends to leave for\n Richmond next week; discusses difficulties\n in their living arrangements; they will\n probably quarter with [?] Ringold; \n Mr.\n [William] Johnson will live by\n himself, and \n [John]\n McLean will preserve his former\n position; \n Brother\n [Henry] Baldwin presides over the\n circuit court in session now in\n Philadelphia; describes his [John\n Marshall's] operation and medicine.","Discusses the latest legal difficulties\n involving the Fairfax lands; his wife [Mary\n Willis (Ambler) Marshall] lies at death's\n door.","Including TCy of ALS. 3 pages.","Discusses a pamphlet to which he [Henry\n Lee] alluded in his letter; mentions \n [Thomas]\n Jefferson's \"unjustifiable aspersions\"\n on his [John Marshall's] conduct and\n principles; writes of his own and \n [George]\n Logon's experiences with the\n Revolutionary government of France; mentions\n the journal he kept in Paris.","Certificate of the Clerk of the Circuit\n Court of Fauquier County dated 16 March\n 1961.","Makes arrangements for the sale of \n \n Edward's [Carrington Marshall's] bank\n shares; her brother Tom [Thomas Marshall]\n tears that he will not win his election\n because he raises the clerk's fees.","He was gratified by his complimentary\n comments on the speech he [Richard Henry\n Wilde] sent him [John Marshall]; sends him\n Mr. [?] Ingham's report on the relative\n value of gold and silver and Mr. [?] White's\n reports on coins; mentions Mr. [?] Jacob's\n work on the subject.","Thanks him for sending him the first\n volume of the \n American Library of\n Useful Knowledge ; the Librarian of\n Congress has asked him [John Marshall] to\n help spend $5000 on law books for the\n library, and he [John Marshall] asks him\n [Joseph Story] to suggest titles; discusses \n [Charles]\n Mercer and the Bank Question and\n internal improvements in Virginia; the party\n guide \n The\n Enquirer is unable to make \n Mr. [John]\n Barbour \"pull in the traces;\"\n discusses national politics and the threat\n of nullification; comments upon the Cholera\n epidemics in the seaports of New York and\n Boston.","Has received and read his essay \n A Congress of\n Nations for the Amicable Adjustments of\n National Differences; Feels that its\n argument is well arranged and supported by\n applicable biblical quotations, but is also\n impracticable.","Is having difficulties selling his stock\n for him; there is a severe outbreak of\n cholera in Richmond; discusses the disease;\n is relieved to hear that he is restored to\n health and that John Harvie is getting\n better; discusses the disabling of his\n horse.","Thanks him for his help in selecting\n titles for the congressional law library;\n discusses his choice of books; is gratified\n that his course on constitutional law [at\n Harvard] nears completion; shares his gloomy\n prospects of the country; \"The case of the\n south seems to me to be desperate.. .The\n union has been prolonged thus far by\n miracles. I fear they cannot continue.\"","Discusses how he sold his [James Keith\n Marshall's] and \n \n Edward's [Carrington\n Marshall's] stock; hopes his\n merchandising speculation will be\n successful; congratulates him on the birth\n of his daughter; has just returned from Mr.\n White's son's funeral, who died of cholera;\n discusses the disease.","Thanks him for the dedication of his new\n book; congratulates him upon its completion;\n the [Virginia] legislature is in session;\n discusses Andrew Jackson's response to\n nullification and his party's reaction to\n it; writes of Virginia's relationship to\n South Carolina and the possibility of their\n joining in a southern confederacy; thanks\n him for a copy of \n Mr.\n [Daniel] Webster's speech; mentions \n \n Brother Justice [Henry]\n Baldwin's sickness.","Encloses a power of attorney authorizing him\n to draw what is coming to him [Thomas A.\n Marshall] on account of grandfather's [Col.\n Thomas Marshall] halt pay; discusses Congress\n and the Nullification crisis; mentions \n Judge [Henry]\n Baldwin's misfortune and that \n Judge\n [Smith] Thompson is in town.","Including ADS. 2 pages. 3 January 1833.\n Power of attorney granting John Marshall the\n right to draw the money due Thomas A. Marshall\n as heir to Colonel Thomas Marshall,\n Revolutionary War veteran entitled to the half\n pay pension; signed by Justice of the Peace\n D.A. Hall.","Returns his portfolio of drawings of\n Washington and pictures of Revolutionary\n Boston; recalls traveling to Richmond with him\n once.","Informs him that his son was accepted to\n West Point; does not think the Tariff bill or\n the bill concerning South Carolina's\n legislature will pass Congress.","Received his letter of 27 April; discusses \n Mr. [Edmund]\n Pendleton ; mentions a copy of a letter\n from Mr. Carr in the possession of Col. John\n Nichols; Augustine Davis may have published it;\n his [Charles Carter's] brother has written to\n Mr. [?] Sujt in regards to it; discusses \n Mr. [Edmund]\n Pendleton , \n [Thomas]\n Jefferson , and the XYZ dispatch.","Discusses Lt. Randolph's case, Mr. Watkin's\n case, the power of arrest, and the Judiciary\n Act; rejoices at the abridgement of his \n Commentaries for\n the public; discusses its place in colleges and\n universities.","Discusses the national fervor in France\n based upon the martial glory of Napoleon and\n demonstrated by the statue at the top of the\n column of Austerlitz in the \n Place de\n Vendome ; compares Napoleon's popularity\n with the people to that of George Washington's,\n Hannibal's, and Ceasar's; all were \"victims of\n the infernal machine\" [party politics];\n discusses national politics and \n [Martin] Van\n Buren .","Discusses the addition \n James [K.\n Marshall] is making to the house at Leeds\n for his father [John Marshall]; mentions \n Jaquelin's\n [Marshall] experiences of housing slaves\n in basements at Prospect Hill; mentions the\n weather and growth of crops and the health of\n his [Thomas Marshall's] daughter Mary; \n \n Aunt [Elizabeth (Marshall)] Colston is in\n poor health and will probably not visit\n Richmond this Winter; his [Thomas Marshall's]\n son John's plans have changed and he has bought\n Mr. [?] Smith's tract of land; tell Mr. [?]\n Tiffin that the girls have never received the\n box of articles he sent to Mr. [?] Cawood by\n steamboat.","Including TCy of ALS. 2 pages.","Has just received a letter from Mr. [?]\n Ringold who has moved from Washington and can\n not accommodate them next winter; \"the\n political world.., is surely moved \n topsy turvy ;\"\n mentions southern states insistence on state\n sovereignty; asks him about \n \n Brother [Justice John?] McClain\n [McLean's?] opinion in Tennessee.","Discusses the 1793 contract signed with\n Denny Fairfax for the Manor of Leeds and the\n South Branch Manor; suggests strategies to\n prove their legal title to the land.","Discusses the purchase of land and the\n legalities it would entail; mentions the\n possibility of mortgaging the Mont Blanc estate\n for a loan.","His present, a copy of his \n Commentaries [on\n the Constitution] and Allison's Sermons, has\n arrived on the \n Lucy and\n Abigail ; has sent him copies of his\n [John Marshall's] \n Life of\n Washington to be delivered to \n [Daniel]\n Webster , \n [John Quincy]\n Adams ; the Massachusetts Historical\n Society, the Boston Athanaeum (which\n complimented him by having his portrait painted\n for their gallery), and Mrs. [?] Ledyard;\n discusses publication of his [Joseph Story's] \n Commentaries ,\n which will not be popular in the South;\n discusses \n [Henry]\n Clay's Tariff bill.","Discusses sale of his [James K. Marshall's]\n land; inform \n Edward\n [Carrington Marshall] that he [John\n Marshall] is pleased with the terms on which he\n has not rented Mont Blanc; will not leave for\n the country till July when he will visit\n [Fauquier White Sulphur] Springs; the May wheat\n has been injured by frost.","Questions him about the defeat of \n [John]\n Hardin at the battle of the St. Joseph\n reported in his [John Marshall's] \n Life of\n Washington ; asks him to check with \n Mr. [Jared]\n Sparks if it was really fought on Paint\n Creek; discusses the elections of the Virginia\n legislature; mentions Martin van Buren.","Describes how George Washington convinced\n him to run for Congress in 1798.","Would have written upon his return from\n Washington, but was seriously injured in the\n stage; cannot find and send him a letter in\n George Washington's hand as requested; does\n enclose a military appointment of 1799 with\n Washington's signature.","Hopes his injury will not be permanent;\n fears the loss to the nation if he resigns; has\n \"cleared the decks for the great legal\n conflict.\"","Discusses arrangements regarding the\n acquisition of Mrs. [?] Kennon's [?]\n negroes.","Discusses Mr. [?] Warden's and Mr.\n Washington's and Brooke's suits which he\n [Charles Lee] agreed to look into for him [John\n Marshall].","A friend from the West has pointed out an\n error in his [John Marshall's] manuscript which\n he would like to correct as follows: \"v.2 p.207\n 1.27 at \"Chilicothe\".. .\"not Chilicothe on the\n Scioto in Ohio, but ... an old Indian village\n then standing about seventy-five miles rather\n East of North from Cincinnati...","Has had some difficulty weighing and selling\n his Parkinson breed of hogs because they were\n too large and their meat is not sweet enough;\n discusses purchases made for him, Mary, Fanny\n Burwell, and Maria Willis according to his\n directions; is surprised at the magnitude of\n his [Thomas Marshall's] debts; lectures on\n paying them off.","Informs him that his rent for the Campbell\n [?] land belonging to his [John Marshall's]\n father's estate is due.","Accepts the President's invitation to dinner\n next Thursday at four.","Discusses the last letter which he [John\n Randolph Roanoke] sent to him [John\n Marshall].","[Both are sisters of John Marshall's wife, Mary\n Willis (Ambler) Marshall.]. Discusses her and her\n husband's, [Colonel Edward Carrington], visit with\n the Washington family at Mount Vernon and the\n impending delivery of Mrs. L. Custis Lewis's first\n child; describes their visit to the new national\n capitol on the Potomac; writes of their return to\n Mount Vernon and of their diversions there, which\n include hunting deer and taking care of the new\n baby, or \"the pretty little stranger\"; describes a\n chambermaid and other servants; comments upon\n domestic fashions and describes the furnishings of\n the mansion, which concludes with a description of\n the estate with its greenhouse and gardens, and of\n their host's [George Washington] treatment of his\n many visitors.","Including TCy of ALS. 6 pages.","[Mary Willis (Ambler) Marshall, Richmond,\n Virginia]. Hopes that she will send for her in\n April, although her Aunt [Elizabeth (Marshall)\n Colston] says that it is unlikely; Uncle [Rawleigh\n Colston] is upset at all the letters she is\n sending, and refuses to pay postage on them;\n wanted to buy muslin in Martinsburg to make her a\n handkerchief and a cap for sister [?]; discusses\n her French lessons with her tutor, Mr. LeRoy, and\n incidents of his exasperation with Tom [Thomas M.\n Colston], Tom \n [Thomas]\n Marshall [a cousin], and Rawleigh [a cousin,\n Raleigh T. Colston], Cousin \n Edward\n [Colston] cruelly takes delight in telling\n her that she will not be able to go home until\n fall, and \"Uncle says he does not think you love\n me enough to ... send for me...\"","Including TCy of ALS. 2 pages.","Has already conveyed his [James Markham\n Marshall's] undiscarded half of land at the forks\n of the Licking [Fauquier County?]; no longer has\n an interest in it, but will convey the novelty to\n him [Martin P. Marshall] at any time; \"lament[s]\n extremely the misunderstanding between yourself\n and Tom...\"; Lucy Marshall is in Fauquier\n [County].","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","Was lucky he came down on Tuesday, For he found\n his daughter, Nancy, ill, which has caused them to\n postpone their return to Weyanoke, [Virginia]; has\n cone a little transferring for Father; has been\n playing chess with Mr. [?] James? Taylor of\n Norfolk; instructs Agnes [his daughter] to attend\n to her studies in Richmond; hopes her [Mary Willis\n (Ambler) Marshall] trip to Chickahominy did not\n fatigue her.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","Mentions changes made in the college government\n at Harvard College; complains of college life -\n \"probably no life is so uninteresting to others as\n that of a merely literary man. An indolent\n collegian especially has nothing to say for\n himself...\"; mentions his classes: Electricity,\n Astronomy, and Moral Philosophy; describes his\n \"chums,\" [?] Turner, [?J Bonaparte, a nephew of\n the Emperor, [?] Cheves, son of Langdon Cheves,\n [?] Bruce, of Halifax County, and his cousin [?]\n Birchett; discusses dining arrangements at\n Harvard: \"We have a large table, confined to\n southerners, and what are called gentlemen\n Yankees\"; looks forward with great anxiety to\n graduating in ten months.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","Most of her bank stock is to be distributed to\n her children and their children, although she\n leaves five bank shares for her \"faithful friend\n and house keeper Mrs. Francis Martyr\" and her\n daughter Anne and ten dollars a year in perpetuity\n to the school for orphan children established by\n the Ladies of Richmond.","Including TCy of AD. 1 page.","Discusses the publication of the last Census\n and its effects on Congressional apportionment;\n discusses railroads and canals; writes of\n abolition in Loudoun and Fauquier Counties,\n [Virginia].","Informs her of her brother [Thomas Marshall's]\n accident in Baltimore and of his impending death;\n Father [John Marshall] has rallied from his severe\n cold, but does not continue to improve; he has\n taken cold again, is feeble, and has no appetite;\n he apprehends the worst.","Describes the weather; Mrs. [?] Mayo has the\n gout; Mary Archer and family are well; Margaret\n and Agnes Douthat are with her; Robert Pickett\n said nothing about paying back the loan; discusses\n his daughters' lessons under Mr. [?] Daley; gives\n directions for the farm; writes of \n General\n [Jaquelin] Harvie ; discusses arrangements\n for her Christmas trip and for her slaves; asks\n about his daughters Claudia and Maria Willis.","Including TCy of ALS. 2 pages. Including Pst of\n ALS. 2 pages.","Writes a favorable recommendation for Dr. J. W.\n Leach who has resided in Fauquier County a few\n years and practiced medicine \"with success and\n usefulness,\" but who desires to move to the city\n to \"improve his fortunes and educate his\n children.\"","Including ANS from \n D[aniel]\n W[ebster] , n.p., n.d. to Mr. Bell, n.p.,\n recommending A.J. Marshall \"son [nephew] of the\n late \n Ch[ief]\n Jus[tice] \u0026 a very reputable man.\"","Handwritten copy [by Alice Colston?]; tells him\n to draw on his [Edward Colston's] money at the\n Valley Bank. of Winchester and send $10 to Raleigh\n Edward at Lexington and the rest to \n W[illiam]\n Leigh .","Including Cy of ADS, (in same hand); 12 October\n 1840, Elizabeth Colston's will; bequeaths her\n slaves and other worldly possessions to her\n children and grandchildren. 4 pages.","Includes an engraving of a spread-eagled\n American bald eagle bearing a lyre with the motto\n \"Nunc Sidera Ducit\" surrounded by thirteen stars;\n also bears the seal of the Department of State;\n the passport stamps show that Harvie visited\n France, Belgium, Austria, Switzerland, Holland ,\n Italy, Spain, Algeria, Rome, Naples, and Germany\n from May 1858 to March 1859.","Describes railroad travel in Virginia;\n discusses his visit in Richmond; mentions Col. [?]\n Mason's and \n G[overn]or\n [John B.] Floyd's efforts at arousing\n sentiment for immediate secession; mentions prices\n of railroad tickets.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page. Including Pst of\n ALS. 2 pages.","Including PDS. 1 page. Acceptance and oath of\n Frank G. Rutfin signed in Richmond before James\n Ellett, Notary Public, on 19 August 1861.","Thanks her for writing to him in Miss [?]\n Harvie's behalf and for granting him an extension;\n the publishers will finish the reproducing within\n three weeks at which time he will return the\n miniture [sic] to her aunt; distressed to hear of\n Anne Harvie's death.","Including Pst of ALS. 1 page. Incomplete.","Including Pst of ADS. 2 pages. 30 November\n 1771. Another indenture signed by Fairfax leasing\n land in the Manor of Leeds to William Seth.","Does not view the consequences of their success\n in the election [of 1800] in as favorable a light\n as he [John Page] does; speculates on what would\n have been the result of the election had there\n been no contest between the \"two Gentlemen who\n stood highest\" [Jefferson and Burr], and if \n [Charles\n Cotesworter] Pin[c]key or \n [John] Adams had\n opposed Jefferson; speculates on the \"presumption\"\n of the Federalist view that should \"no election...\n take place, Mr. Adams is, under the Constitution,\n to continue in office until a successor be\n appointed; \n that is until the next\n election of course \"; says appointments of\n John Marshall as Chief Justice, seventeen new\n judges, and [?] Bayard \"the most unacceptable man\n that could be sent to the French republic,\"\n nominated as minister plenipotentiary -- all\n extend the influence of the Federalists and throw\n an obstacle in the way of Jefferson's\n administration; adds a few lines typical of what\n he sees as Federalist sentiment; and writes of\n their friendship.","Since he [John Randolph] is not long for this\n world, is anxious to settle his affairs; \"should\n you decide upon a settlement south of \n \n Philad[elphi]a (which God forbid) I am\n desirous that you should fix yourself as soon as\n possible on the plantation below the mouth of\n little Roanoke...[Bizarre Plantation?];\" his [John\n Randolph's] infirmity has prevented him from\n giving the estate the requisite attention, and it\n is much encumbered with debt; discusses his\n failing health: \"there is something radically a\n miss in the system. The machine cannot last much\n longer.\"","Thanks him for compliance with his request\n \"thru our mutual friend Mr. John Marshall\"; will\n write soon; sends paper for Capt. Brown.","Comments on events in Washington which instill\n \"deep regret and surprize\"; mentions the election\n in Kentucky; says the antimasonic excitement will\n likely be \"troublesome\" but he will not get\n involved in it; has not heard from Mr. [?] Hammond\n for a long time but does not distrust him but\n disagrees over the issue of the representation of\n Ohio in the Baltimore Convention; glad to hear of\n his [James F. Conover] professional prospects.","Discusses the case of [?] Randolph being heard\n by \n \n U.S. District Court Judge [Philip P.]\n Barbour .","Chief\n Justice [John] Marshall died in Philadelphia\n last Monday, perfectly in his senses to the last;\n the news reached here only this morning, and his\n remains at 4 p.m.; describes the funeral\n procession.","Encloses the diploma of the historical\n Institute of France which just elected John\n Marshall a member on his [Henry Lee's]\n recommendation; describes Marshall's election to\n that society.","Is happy about her recovery; quotes\n Shakespeare; describes his own health; writes of\n his political campaigning in King and Queen, King\n William, and Hanover counties, [Virginia];\n describes her old neighborhood and farm, now\n occupied by Fleetwood Academy; discusses George\n Haskins situation, mentioning his lack of slaves;\n gossips about affairs in King and Queen County;\n discusses the unusual weather; tells an Irish\n joke; discusses \n [Henry]\n Clay's tariff.","One was a wax portrait in basso-relievo donated by\n Horace Edwin Hayden to the Virginia Historical\n Society in 1881; another was the bronze monument by\n W.W. Story which stands on the terrace of the U. S.\n Capitol; the members of the Marshall family who\n attended the dedication of this statue are listed in\n a third article.","Poem written on the request of a lady to inscribe\n his name in her autograph book.","Including TCy of AL. 1 page.","Poem honors the splendid singing voice of Miss\n Eliza Lambert, the sister of Richmond's Mayor William\n Lambert.","Including TCy of AL. 1 page.","Lines on the occasion of\n the raising of the bronze statue of Chief Justice\n Marshall, at Richmond in 1869(?) - while Brig. Gen'l\n Terry was in command of 'District No. 1' -\n which included the state of Virginia.","Discusses tr. Physick's operation on John\n Marshall.","Lists his pall-bearers: Henry St. George Tucker,\n John B. Clapton, \n Benj[amin] W [?]\n Leigh , \n Tho[ma]s\n Rutherford , \n Cha[rle]s\n Copland , \n Rob[er]t\n Popllard , Chapman Johnson, Robert Stanard, [?]\n Scott, and [?] D. Wren[?]; also lists the Marshalls: \n Col. Geo[rge]\n M. Carrington , \n [?] General\n [William] Lambert , General [?] Peyton, and\n Col. Armistead.","Mentions the results of an autopsy on Marshall's\n body after his death in 1835.","Published by the Reformed Church Publication Board\n in Philadelphia. The Centennial Address delivered\n before the Franklin and Marshall College of\n Lancaster, Pennsylvania on 14 June 1887.","Subsequently published by McGraw-Hill in a 1960\n book, \n Fountain of\n Freedom .","The smaller one was copied from French painter\n Levret Saint Memin's 1801 crayon portrait of\n Marshall. The larger lithograph was copied from\n Chester Harding's 1830 painting.","Including a copy of and etching of John Marshall's\n house in Richmond.","The original of the one of Marshall facing right\n was made in Richmond about 1825 by a French artist.\n It was hung at Oak Hill, was inherited by his eldest\n son Thomas Marshall, and is privately owned.","Each was copied from the 1801 portrait of Marshall\n painted by Saint Memin. The large matted one was\n engraved by J. H. E. Whitney.","Two obviously derived from Henry Inman's 1831\n portrait; one engraved by J. A. O'Neil shows Marshall\n in 1793 as the Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of\n Virginia Freemasons; the last includes engravings of\n portraits of other U.S. Chief Justices: John Jay,\n Oliver Ellsworth, John Rutledge, R. B. Taney, M. R.\n Waite, Salmon P. Chase, and Melville W. Fuller.","Including a short history of Federal Hardware and\n Implement Mutual Insurance companies.","It consists of a 26 February 1884 memorial to the\n General Assembly of Virginia, a 25 February letter to\n the Editor of \n The State , and\n handwritten commentary. Ruffin states the reasons why\n he is opposed to passage of the Richmond Dock and Dry\n dock bill."],"separatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBooks owned by John Marshall have been removed from this\n collection. For a more detailed location of these books\n please see the Lion Catalog as well as the Association\n Collection in the Manuscripts and Rare Books Department,\n Swem Library, College of William and Mary.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNewspapers have been transferred from this collection.\n See the Manuscripts and Rare Books Department, Swem\n Library, College of William and Mary.\u003c/p\u003e"],"separatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Separated Materials"],"separatedmaterial_tesim":["Books owned by John Marshall have been removed from this\n collection. For a more detailed location of these books\n please see the Lion Catalog as well as the Association\n Collection in the Manuscripts and Rare Books Department,\n Swem Library, College of William and Mary.","Newspapers have been transferred from this collection.\n See the Manuscripts and Rare Books Department, Swem\n Library, College of William and Mary."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBefore publishing quotations or excerpts from any\n materials, permission must be obtained from the Curator of\n Manuscripts and Rare Books, and the holder of the\n copyright, if not Swem Library.\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Publication Rights/Restrictions on Use"],"userestrict_tesim":["Before publishing quotations or excerpts from any\n materials, permission must be obtained from the Curator of\n Manuscripts and Rare Books, and the holder of the\n copyright, if not Swem Library."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract label=\"Abstract\"\u003eOriginal letters and copies of\n letters from other repositories, chiefly 1788-1835, of John\n Marshall's correspondence with his wife, Mary Willis (Ambler)\n Marshall, and other family members.\u003c/abstract\u003e"],"abstract_tesim":["Original letters and copies of\n letters from other repositories, chiefly 1788-1835, of John\n Marshall's correspondence with his wife, Mary Willis (Ambler)\n Marshall, and other family members."],"names_ssim":["Marshall Family,","Marshall family.","John Marshall,","Mary Willis Ambler Marshall,","James Monroe,","Joseph Story.","Johnson, Herbert A., Charles T.\n Cullen, Nancy G. Harris, Charles F. Hobson, and others\n eds.","Mason, Frances Norton.","Oliver, Andrew","Rhodes, Irwin S.","Marshall, John,\n 1755-1835.","Marshall, Mary Willis\n Ambler, 1766-1831.","Monroe, James,\n 1758-1831.","Story, Joseph,\n 1779-1845.","Washington, Bushrod,\n 1762-1829."],"famname_ssim":["Marshall Family,","Marshall family."],"persname_ssim":["John Marshall,","Mary Willis Ambler Marshall,","James Monroe,","Joseph Story.","Johnson, Herbert A., Charles T.\n Cullen, Nancy G. Harris, Charles F. Hobson, and others\n eds.","Mason, Frances Norton.","Oliver, Andrew","Rhodes, Irwin S.","Marshall, John,\n 1755-1835.","Marshall, Mary Willis\n Ambler, 1766-1831.","Monroe, James,\n 1758-1831.","Story, Joseph,\n 1779-1845.","Washington, Bushrod,\n 1762-1829."],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":354,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-05-21T15:04:23.948Z","collection":{"numFound":1,"start":0,"numFoundExact":true,"docs":[{"id":"viw_viw00076","ead_ssi":"viw_viw00076","_root_":"viw_viw00076","_nest_parent_":"viw_viw00076","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/wm/viw00076.xml","title_ssm":["John Marshall Papers, \n \n 1771-1959."],"title_tesim":["John Marshall Papers, \n \n 1771-1959."],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["Mss. 39.1 M34"],"text":["Mss. 39.1 M34","John Marshall Papers, \n \n 1771-1959.","Marshall, John,\n 1755-1835--Portraits, caricatures, etc,","Lawyers--United\n States--Correspondence.","Statesmen-- United\n States--Correspondence.","Judges--United\n States--Correspondence.","Marriage--United\n States--History--18th century.","Marriage--United\n States--History--19th century.","434 items.","Collection is open to all researchers.","Some manuscript volumes located at the end of the\n collection are also available in microform in the\n Manuscripts and Rare Books Department, Swem Library,\n College of William and Mary. [Reels M-104, M-105(a-c), and\n M-106]","Organization This collection is organized into 4 series. Series 1\n contains correspondence and papers of John Marshall, family\n members and other individuals; Series 2 contains printed\n material, poems and charts; Series 3 contains prints,\n engravings, and artifacts; and Series 4 contains manuscript\n volumes.","This collection is organized into 4 series. Series 1\n contains correspondence and papers of John Marshall, family\n members and other individuals; Series 2 contains printed\n material, poems and charts; Series 3 contains prints,\n engravings, and artifacts; and Series 4 contains manuscript\n volumes.","Arrangement This collection is primarily arranged chronologically by\n date.","This collection is primarily arranged chronologically by\n date.","Johnson, Herbert A., Charles T.\n Cullen, Nancy G. Harris, Charles F. Hobson, and others\n eds. The Papers of John\n Marshall. 10 vols. to date. \n Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, \n 1974- . Call\n Number: E302 .M365 v.1 - v.10 \n ","Mason, Frances Norton. My Dearest Polly; Letters of Chief\n Justice John Marshall to His Wife, With Their Background,\n Political and Domestic, 1779-1831. Richmond: Garrett \u0026 Massie, \n 1961. Call Number:\n E302.6 .M4 M33 \n ","Oliver, Andrew The Portraits of John\n Marshall. Charlottesville: Institute of Early American\n History and Culture, University Press of Virginia, \n 1977. Call Number:\n E302.6 .M4 O44 \n ","Rhodes, Irwin S. The Papers of John Marshall, A\n Descriptive Calendar. 2 vols. \n Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, \n [1969]. Call\n Number: KF213 .M3 R5 V.1 - V.2 \n ","John Marshall (1755-1835) was born near Germantown, Prince\n William (currently Fauquier) County, Virginia on 24 September\n 1755 to parents Thomas Marshall and Mary Randolph Keith. From\n 1775-1781, Marshall served in the Continental Army and fought\n in the Revolutionary War. During the spring and summer of\n 1780, Marshall attended classes at the College of William and\n Mary and received his license to practice law. After the war,\n he moved to Richmond, Virginia and began his practice.\n Marshall married Mary Willis Ambler in 1783. The couple had\n ten children, six of whom survived to adulthood. He was\n elected as a delegate to the Virginia House of Delegates in\n 1780 and 1782-1788. Later, he was appointed by President John\n Adams to a special commission to France from 1797-1798. The\n commission, which brought about the famous XYZ affair, failed\n to settle existing differences between France and the U.S.\n From 1799-1800, Marshall served as a Federalist representative\n in the 6th United States Congress. He did not serve out his\n term however, as he was appointed by Adams to serve as U.S.\n Secretary of State from 1800-1801. Later, Marshall received\n yet another appointment from Adams this time to the bench as\n the fourth chief justice of the Supreme Court. He was\n confirmed by the Senate on 27 January 1801 and served until\n his death on 6 July 1835. In addition to hearing 1,215 cases\n and authoring 514 opinions, Marshall also wrote, \n The Life of George Washington ,\n a book in 5 volumes. Marshall was buried in New Burying\n Ground, Richmond, Virginia.","Original is located in the Draper\n Collection, \n State Historical Society of\n Wisconsin, Madison,\n Wisconsin.","Original is located in the Monroe Papers,\n Library of Congress,\n Washington, D.C.","Original is located in the \n James Monroe Memorial\n Library, Fredericksburg,\n Virginia.","Original is located in the \n New York Public Library, New\n York City, New York.","Photostat, \n Monroe Papers, Library of\n Congress, Washingon D.C.","Location of original is unknown.","Photostat, \n Monroe Papers, Library of\n Congress, Washington D.C. Location of original is unknown.","Original is located in the \n Henry E. Huntington Library,\n San Marino, California.","Original is located in the Collection of\n the Association for the Preservation of\n Virginia Antiquities, on deposit at the \n Virginia Historical Society,\n Richmond, Virginia.","Original is located in the Page Walker\n Manuscripts, \n University of Virginia\n Library, Charlottesville,\n Virginia.","Original is located in the Nicholas\n Papers, \n University of Virginia\n Library, Charlottesville,\n Virginia.","Original is located in the Page Walker\n Manuscripts, \n University of Virginia\n Library, Charlottesville,\n Virginia.","Original is located in the Collection of\n the Association for the Preservation of\n Virginia Antiquities, on deposit at the \n Virginia Historical Society,\n Richmond, Virginia.","Original is located in the \n Free Library of\n Philadelphia, Philadelphia,\n Pennsylvania.","Original is located in the RG 59, \n National Archives,\n Washington, D.C.","Original is located in the Collection of\n the Association for the Preservation of\n Virginia Antiquities, on deposit at the \n Virginia Historical Society,\n Richmond, Virginia.","Original is located in the Iredell\n Manuscripts, \n Duke University Library,\n Durham, North Carolina.","Original is located in the \n Free Library of\n Philadelphia, Philadelphia,\n Pennsylvania.","Original is located in the RG 59, \n National Archives,\n Washington, D.C.","Original is located in the RG 59, \n National Archives,\n Washington, D.C.","Original is located in the RG 59, \n National Archives,\n Washington, D.C.","Original is located in the RG 59, \n National Archives,\n Washington, D.C.","Original is located in the RG 59, \n National Archives,\n Washington, D.C.","Original is privately owned.","Original is located in the Collection of\n the Association for the Preservation of\n Virginia Antiquities, on deposit at \n Virginia Historical Society,\n Richmond, Virginia.","Original in the Washington Papers, \n Library of Congress,\n Washington, D.C.","Original is privately owned.","Original in the Washington Papers, \n Library of Congress,\n Washington, D.C.","Original is located in the Washington\n Papers, \n Library of Congress,\n Washington, D.C.","Original is located in the Washington\n Papers, \n Library of Congress,\n Washington, D.C.","Original is located in the \n John Marshall House,\n Richmond, Virginia.","Original is located in \n Washington University, St.\n Louis, Missouri.","Location of original is unknown.","Original is located in the Collection\n of the Association for the Preservation\n of Virginia Antiquities, on deposit at\n the \n Virginia Historical\n Society, Richmond,\n Virginia.","Original is located in the Pinckney\n Family Papers, \n Library of Congress,\n Washington, D.C.","Original is located in the Hampton L.\n Carson Collection, \n Free Library of\n Philadelphia, Philadelphia,\n Pennsylvania.","Original is located in the William M.\n Elkins Collection, \n Free Library of\n Philadelphia, Philadelphia,\n Pennsylvania.","Original is located in the Pinkney\n Family Papers, \n Library of Congress,\n Washington D.C.","Original is located in the \n Free Library of\n Philadelphia, Philadelphia,\n Pennsylvania.","Original is located in the \n Free Library of\n Philadelphia, Philadelphia,\n Pennsylvania.","Original is located in the Jefferson\n Papers, \n Library of Congress,\n Washington D.C.","Printed in Dann, \n Mason\n Memoirs .","Original is located in the \n John Marshall House,\n Virginia State Library, Richmond,\n Virginia.","Original is located in the \n Washington University, St.\n Louis, Missouri.","Original is located in the \n University of Virginia,\n Charlottesville, Virginia.","Original is privately owned.","Original is located in the \n University of Virginia,\n Charlottesville, Virginia.","Original is located in the Pinckney\n Papers, \n Library of Congress,\n Washington, D.C.","Original is located in the \n Free Library of\n Philadelphia, Philadelphia,\n Pennsylvania.","Original is located in the Pinckney\n Papers, \n Library of Congress,\n Washington, D.C.","Original is located in the \n Massachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.","Original is located in the \n Massachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.","Original is located in the Monroe Papers,\n Library of Congress,\n Washington, D.C.","Location of original is unknown.","Original is located in the \n University of Virginia,\n Charlottesville, Virginia.","Location of original is unknown.","Original is located in the Hampton L.\n Carson Collection, \n Free Library of\n Philadelphia, Philadelphia,\n Pennsylvania.","Original is located in the RG 59, \n National Archives,\n Washington, D.C.","Original is located in the Hampton L.\n Carson Collection, \n Free Library of\n Philadelphia, Philadelphia,\n Pennsylvania.","Original is located in the \n Massachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.","Original is located in the \n Massachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.","Original is located in the \n Library of Congress,\n Washington, D.C.","Original is located in the \n Massachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.","Original is located in the \n Library of Congress,\n Washington, D.C.","Original is located in the \n John Marshall House,\n Richmond, Virginia.","Original is located in the \n Massachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.","Original is located in the \n Massachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.","Original is located in the \n Massachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.","Original is located in the \n Library of Congress,\n Washington, D.C.","Original is located in the Hampton L.\n Carson Collection, \n Free Library of\n Philadelphia, Philadelphia,\n Pennsylvania.","Original is located in the \n Massachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.","Original is located in the \n Massachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.","Original is located in the \n Library of Congress,\n Washington, D.C.","Original is located in the University of\n Virginia on deposit at \n John Marshall House,\n Richmond, Virginia.","Original is located in the Virginia State\n Library, on deposit \n John Marshall House,\n Richmond, Virginia.","Original is located in the Hampton L.\n Carson Collection, \n Free Library of\n Philadelphia, Philadelphia,\n Pennsylvania.","Original is located in the \n Library of Congress,\n Washington, D.C.","Original is located in \n Washington University, St.\n Louis, Missouri.","Original is located in the \n Library of Congress,\n Washington, D.C.","Original is located in the \n Library of Congress,\n Washington, D.C.","Location of original is unknown.","Original is located in the \n Massachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.","Original is located in the \n Rush Rhees Library,\n University of Rochester, Rochester,\n New York.","Original is located in the \n Library of Congress,\n Washington, D.C.","Original is located in \n Washington University,\n St. Louis, Missouri.","Original is located in the \n Massachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.","Location of original is unknown.","Original is located in the \n John Marshall House,\n Richmond, Virginia.","Original is located in the \n Massachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.","Original is located in the \n John Marshall House,\n Richmond, Virginia.","Original is located in the \n Massachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.","Location of original is unknown.","Location of original is unknown.","Original is located in the \n William L. Clements\n Library, Ann Arbor,\n Michigan.","Original is located in the \n University of\n Virginia?","Original is located in the \n Massachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.","Original is located in the Hampton L.\n Carson Collection, \n Free Library of\n Philadelphia, Philadelphia,\n Pennsylvania.","Original is located in the \n John Marshall House,\n Richmond, Virginia.","Original is located in the \n John Marshall House,\n Richmond, Virginia.","Original is located in the \n Massachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.","Original is located in the \n Massachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.","Original is located in the \n Massachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.","Original is privately owned.","Original is located in the \n University of Virginia,\n Charlottesville,\n Virginia.","Original is located in the \n Massachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.","Original is located in the \n National Archives,\n Washington, D.C.","Original is located in the \n University of Virginia,\n Charlottesville,\n Virginia.","Original is located in the \n Massachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.","Original is located in the \n John Marshall House,\n Richmond, Virginia.","Original is located in the \n Massachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.","Original is located in the \n Massachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.","Original is privately owned.","Original is located in the \n Massachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.","Original is located in the \n Washington University,\n St. Louis, Missouri.","Original is located in the Marshall\n Papers, \n Library of Congress,\n Washington, D.C.","Original is located in the \n Library of U.S. Supreme\n Court, Washington D.C.","Original is located in the \n Fauquier County\n Courthouse?","Original is located in the \n Massachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.","See the November and December 1832\n issue of \n The\n Comet .","Original is privately owned.","Original is located in the \n Massachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.","Original is located in the \n John Marshall House,\n Richmond, Virginia.","Original is located in the \n John Marshall House,\n Richmond, Virginia.","Original is located in the \n Massachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.","Original is located in the \n Illinois State Historical\n Library, Springfield,\n Illinois.","Original is located in the Marshall\n Papers, \n Library of Congress,\n Washington, D.C.","Original is located in the \n Massachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.","Original is located in the \n Duke University, Durham,\n North Carolina.","Original is located in the \n Massachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.","Original is located in the \n John Marshall House,\n Virginia State Library.","Original is located in the \n Massachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.","Original is located in the \n John Marshall House,\n Virginia State Library.","Original is located in the \n Massachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.","Original is located in the \n Harvard University,\n Cambridge, Massachusetts.","Location of original is unknown.","Original is located in the \n Virginia State Library,\n Richmond, Virginia.","Original is located in the \n John Marshall House,\n Richmond, Virginia.","Original is located in the \n Rush Rhees Library,\n University of Rochester.","Original is located in the Hampton L.\n Carson Collection, \n Free Library of\n Philadelphia, Philadelphia,\n Pennsylvania.","Original is located in the \n John Marshall House,\n Richmond, Virginia.","Location of original is unknown.","Original is located in the \n John Marshall House, Richmond,\n Virginia.","Original is located in the \n John Marshall House, Richmond,\n Virginia.","Original is located in the \n John Marshall House, Richmond,\n Virginia.","Original is located in the \n John Marshall House, Richmond,\n Virginia.","Original is located in the \n University of Virginia,\n Charlottesville, Virginia.","Original is located in the \n John Marshall House, Richmond,\n Virginia.","Original is located in the \n University of Virginia,\n Charlottesville, Virginia.","Original is located in the \n Virginia State Library,\n Richmond, Virginia.","Original is located in the \n University of Virginia,\n Charlottesville, Virginia.","Original is located in the \n Westover Library, Arlington,\n Virginia.","Original is located in the \n Library of the College of\n Physicians, Philadelphia,\n Pennsylvania.","Original is located in the \n Minnesota Historical Society, St.\n Paul, Minnesota.","Original hangs in the \n Virginia State Library, Richmond,\n Virginia.","This account book has been microfilmed. See\n Marshall, John M-104. 1 reel of negative\n microfilm.","This journal of accounts and law notes has been\n microfilmed. See M-105, M-105a, and M-105b for 3\n copies of positive microfilm. See M-l05c for 1\n reel of negative microfilm.","Original is located in the Pickering Papers, \n Massachusetts Historical Society,\n Boston, Massachusetts.","This journal is available only on microfilm.\n See Marshall, John M-107. 1 reel of negative\n microfilm.","Reprint is avilable in \n The Papers of John\n Marshall, 1796-1798 (vol. 3); edited by\n Herbert A. Johnson, Charles T. Cullen, Nancy G.\n Harris, Charles F. Hobson, et. al. \n Call Number: E302 .M365 v.1 - v.10","The majority of the copies, comprising approximately 50%\n of this collection, are from the Marshall House in\n Richmond, Virginia; the Library of Congress; or the\n Massachusetts Historical Society, but other depositories\n are also represented. For information concerning the\n location of orginials please see the components listing\n below.","See also John Marshall Faculty/Alumni File, University\n Archives, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.","Original letters and copies of letters from other\n repositories, chiefly 1788-1835, of John Marshall's\n correspondence with his wife, Mary Willis (Ambler) Marshall,\n other family members, James Monroe, Joseph Story, Bushrod\n Washington, and others. The correspondence reflects Marshall's\n wide range in interests including law, Virginia and U. S.\n politics, international affairs, agriculture and social\n events.","Also included are letters by family members and\n descendants; a charcoal sketch and copies of visual\n representations of John Marshall; and places and events\n associated with him.","Has delivered his [Monroe's] letters to \n \n Gen[era]l [George Rogers] Clark and \n [John?] Banks ;\n discusses proceedings of the Virginia Assembly;\n R[ichard]\n H[enry] Lee's services to the Assembly\n are lost forever and \n Colo. Harry\n [Henry \"Light Horse Harry\"] Lee will\n probably take his place; mentions bills\n defining citizenship introduced by \n [John]\n Taylor and \n Colo.\n [George] Nicholas ; tells of [Joseph?]\n Jones bill and discusses \n Patrick]\n Henry's style of oratory; relates the\n House being split upon the issue of exclusion\n of the Statute Staple men; discusses military\n warrants for land and his [Marshall's] father,\n who set out for the western country on November\n 5.","Including Tcy of ALS. 2 pages.","Blesses George Washington who resigned his\n commission of 23 December 1783; will put his\n [Monroe's] letter to \n Majr.\n [John] Crittenden into the hands of \n \n Genl. [George Rogers] Clarke , who will\n be in the western country in February, and who\n will pay close attention to his [Monroe's]\n military warrant; mentions that the Speaker\n [John Tyler] has left Richmond; laments the\n passage of the bill excluding Virginian\n delegates to Congress from serving in the\n Virginian legislature; \"Fear of the power of\n Congress I have ever considered as chimerical;\"\n Colo.\n [John Francis] Mercer informed him of the\n passage in the Continental Congress of the\n resolution accepting Virginia's cession of the\n northwest territory.","Including Tcy of ALS. 3 pages.","Has enclosed a bill of exchange for the one\n hundred dollars due him [Monroe] as a Delegate\n to Congress, four dollars having been expended\n on his land warrant now in the hands of the\n Surveyor.","Including Tcy of ALS. 1 page.","Claims he is unable to send money because\n inclement weather has hindered state tax\n collection; \n [Samuel] Ege and\n Monroe's former landlady, Mrs. Shera, are\n clamoring to be paid; mentions the impending\n marriage of \"Little\" \n [John]\n Stewart and \"Kitty Hair\" [Catherine\n Hare]; gossips about \"artificial heat\" of the\n courtships of Mr. Dunn and \"your old\n acquaintance\" Miss Shera, and of \"Tabby\" \n [Tabitha]\n Eppes who \"has grown quite fat \u0026\n buxom, her charms...renovated,\" and her\n unsuccessful suitors: \n [Edward]\n Carrington , [?] Young, [?] Selden, \n [Matthew]\n Wright , and \n Foster Webb,\n [Jr.] ; mentions other friends and state\n officials including \n [Thomas]\n Lomax , \n William]\n Nelson, [Jr.] , \n [Beverley]\n Randolph , and \n [William]\n Short .","Colo.\n [William] Grayson is not here, but \n [Wilson\n Cary] Nicholas is; a quorum was reached\n on Wednesday, [May 12] and committees are being\n appointed; \n [Patrick]\n Henry arrived yesterday and is eager to\n have postponement of the tax collection; the\n Speaker [John Tyler] was chosen without a\n contest; tell \n Colo.\n [John Francis] Mercer that there lies\n £100 in the Treasury for him; he\n [John Marshall] will tell his [John Francis\n Mercer's] brother [James Mercer] in\n Fredericksburg the same; \n Major\n [John] Crittenden is again elected for\n Fayette County; asks him [Monroe] to deliver\n letters for him to \n Doctor [Arthur]\n Lee .","Reports he delivered his [William Branch\n Giles's] letter to \n Major\n [Charles] Magill while in Winchester,\n [Virginia] in August; discusses gaming act and\n several points concerning the case of his\n [William Branch Giles's] client, Mr. Bell; \n \n Brother James [Markham Marshall] has\n arrived from Kentucky and will remain in town\n through October.","Including Tcy of ALS. 2 pages.","Congratulates him on his return from\n Montreal and the Northwest; he too wishes that\n the British debts resolutions had not been\n passed, because it tends to weaken the federal\n bands and provides a pretext for the British to\n retain possession of the forts on the lakes;\n [Joseph Jones] has introduced a bill to provide\n for seven annual payments for repayment to\n begin in April 1786; only bill that has been\n passed was one granting \n [James]\n Rumsey a 10 year monopoly to develop the\n machine in a steamboat; discusses rejected\n bills, including one encouraging intermarriage\n with the Indians; General Assessment and\n circuit court bills will probably be thrown\n out, even with the influence of [Patrick]\n Henry; his [Monroe's] letter recommending \n Colo.\n [John Francis] Mercer did not arrive in\n time to appoint him to a position; \n [Joseph]\n James has replaced \n [William]\n Short , and \n [Spencer]\n Roane and \n [Miles] Selden,\n [Jr.] have replaced \n [Meriwether]\n Smith and \n Colo.\n [William] Christian ; \n [Edward?]\n Carrington was very disappointed in\n losing by one vote when Colo. Jack Nicholas\n walked out on the last ballot; he [John\n Marshall] attempted too to promote Monroe's\n friend's interest, Wilson Nicholas, who is\n about to marry \n Miss\n [Margaret] Smith of Baltimore; his\n [Marshall's] father is willing to help him\n [Monroe] in regards to his [Monroe's] western\n lands, but his [John Marshall's] cousin \n Humphr[e]y\n Marshall would be better able to;\n discusses relative merits of selling or keeping\n his [Monroe's] western lands.","Invitation to dinner; on verso is poem \n Extempore at the\n Convention in Virginia, written by\n Morris, satirizing the slowness of the\n proceedings of the Virginia convention called\n to ratify the U.S. Constitution.","Sends client a second subpoena as the first\n was never returned, concerning a suit in\n Chancery Court which involved title to land in\n Fauquier County, Virginia; asks that any\n depositions or affidavits be forwarded to\n him.","In response to a letter of Washington's, he\n [John Marshall] discusses the legalities of\n caveats and land patents.","Discusses general English legal history of\n intestacy, and Virginia's laws concerning\n priority of payment of a decedent's debts by an\n executor.","Asks for his [Thomas Walker's] account\n rendered to \n [John] Syme for\n other materials which will help him [John\n Marshall] to argue his [Thomas Walker's] court\n case.","Gives \n Col. [Reuben]\n Lindsey [sic] [Lindsay] an order upon him\n [John Marshall] for twelve pounds.","Discusses his [John Marshall's] financial\n obligations to him, including £20\n for a chariot; asks him to pay the governor\n [Henry Lee] for a hogshead of wine for him;\n mentions he is setting out immediately for\n Williamsburg.","Including Tcy ALS. 1 page.","Including Pst of ALS. 1 page.","Advises him [Francis Walker] to take\n testimony showing the value of his [Francis\n Walker's] lands which formerly belonged to \n Mr.\n [Nicholas] Meriwether in preparation of\n his case; discusses his [Francis Walker's]\n other case against \n [William]\n Cabell .","The case will probably be heard in March and\n Mrs. [?] Turnbull's presence will not be\n material; the subjects which the testimony\n should point to are the fortune of Mr. [?]\n Turnbull, the injury done that of Mrs.\n Turnbull, and the expenses she has incurred\n since the separation; if he [Charles Lee] can\n learn that, he will prove himself useful in\n Alexandria.","Note asking Jones to pay Garrett Cottringer\n $100; the bill is endorsed on the verso \"Feby\n 11 1794 Reed Payment, Garrett Cottringer.\"","Respectfully declines the Office of Attorney\n General of the U.S. because of his current\n business in Richmond.","Has transmitted to the clerk of Dumfries a\n transverse to the Fauquier inquest; hopes that\n it will be determined by means of a demurrer at\n the next terms; discusses why he [John\n Marshall] wishes this.","Has just arrived safely in Philadelphia, and\n waits impatiently for the arrival of \n Mr.\n [Alexander] Campbell before considering a\n British debts case; his [John Marshall's] own\n case may not be taken up; mentions attending\n the theatre and compares Philadelphia's\n favorite actress, Mrs. Marshall, to Richmond's \n Mrs. [Anne\n West] Bignall ; has not yet heard from\n his brother, James Markham Marshall; sends\n greetings to his children.","Including Pst of ALS. 2 pages.","In which he [John Marshall] sells 1,640\n acres in Clarke County, Kentucky, near Strouds\n Station which had been patented to Marshall on\n 11 March 1784. At dollars per acre, McCreery\n pays Marshall £500 as a down\n payment, with the balance to be paid when full\n title is proved. The deed is recorded under the\n Seal of the General Court of Virginia on 15\n June 1801.","Upset at the news of \n [Rawleigh]\n Colston's loss, and of the postponement\n of his [John Marshall's] visit to Buckpond,\n stating \"the thoughts of seeing you once\n more...is a principle means of keeping me\n alive\"; is pleased with his son's \"part...in\n the present Storm\"; would like to see his\n grandsons but fears the journey would tax their\n youthful constitutions; discusses his potential\n bequests of his property to the family;\n mentions he has paid taxes on his [John\n Marshall's] military land, but not on that\n which he gave to his grandson, Tom [Thomas\n Marshall] in Fayette [County, Kentucky]; thinks\n that \"the political Horizon [is about] to clear\n up\"; asks Marshall to notify \n Col.\n [Edward] Carrington that he [John\n Marshall] has sent \n Mr. [Peyton]\n Shorts' accounts to \n Mr. [Oliver]\n Walcot [sic] [Wolcott] .","Discusses \n Mr. [John]\n Eyre and \n [James] Nimmo ,\n two of Virginia's electors in the presidential\n election of 1796; comments upon the\n distribution of Virginia's electoral votes\n between \n [Thomas]\n Jefferson , \n Sam[ue]l\n Adams , [?] Clinton, \n [Aaron] Burr , \n \n Gen[era]l [George] Washington , [?] \n Pin[c]kney , and\n John Adams; the Virginia Assembly displays its\n former hostility to Federalism; hopes North\n Carolina will not \"tread the crooked path of\n Virginia\"; will furnish \n [Alexander\n James] Dallas with his [John Marshall's]\n argument in the British debts case.","Tells of a day spent at Mount Vernon\n (\"certainly one of the most delightful\n places in our country\") on his way to\n Philadelphia via Alexandria; misses her so\n much as to send his man \"Dick\" to her with\n this letter; is treated well by his unkle\n [sic] \n [James]\n Keith in Alexandria; \"I never was\n peremptory but I must now give you one\n positive order. It is be happy\"; sends two\n letters which he accidentally carried off\n and asks her to send the one addressed to \n Genl.\n [Henry] Young to \n Mr. [John]\n Hopkins , and to send the other to his\n brother, [Thomas Marshall].","Including Pst of ALS. 2 pages.","Thanks him [Caesar Rodney] for informing\n him that some papers which had slipped out\n of his [John Marshall's] pocket were being\n held by Mr. McCullough at New Castle, whom\n he has requested to post them to\n Philadelphia.","Discusses his voyage up the Chesapeake\n from Baltimore; mentions his first meeting\n with President John Adams; describes \"heavy\n gloom\" which hangs around the almost\n bankrupt Robert Morris and family; is\n impressed by the Vauxhall of Philadelphia\n and fashionable diversions; mentions estate\n of \n Mrs.\n [Susan] Heyward [sic] [Hayward] on the\n banks of the Schuylkil.","Including Pst of ALS. 2 pages.","Is \"extremely chagrined\" at never\n receiving any mail from her; writes he will\n sail on the brig Grace for Amsterdam within\n the week to join \n \n General [Charles] Pinckney ; discusses\n July 4th celebration of the Senators and\n Representatives.","Including Pst of ALS. 2 pages.","Has received her letter of June 30;\n thanks Heaven for her improved health and\n warns her that \"melancholy may inflict\n punishment\" on her unborn child; mentions\n that \n Colonel\n [Robert] Gamble's wife would like to\n visit her; expects to sail by the beginning\n of next week at the latest and is upset at\n the delay; will finish his business and\n return as soon as possible; sends greetings\n to his children and mother-in-law; mentions\n the adjournment of Congress.","Including Pst of ALS. 2 pages.","Sends this letter by \n Mr.\n [Humphrey ?] Marshall ; attended the\n play \n Romeo and\n Juliet last night, and compares \n Mrs.\n [Anne Bruton] Merry's \"Juliet\" to\n Richmond's \n Mrs.\n [Anne] West [Bignall's] ; visited \n Mrs.\n [Susan] Heyward [sic] Hayward and\n gossips about her rumored upcoming marriage\n to [Henry] Baring; complains about delayed\n departure and wearies of dining out, as he\n begins \"to require a frugal repast with good\n cool water\"; wishes \"that we were looking\n back on our separation instead of seeing it\n before us.\"","Including Pst of ALS. 2 pages.","Asks her to give a parcel of land deeds\n from \n [John?]\n Banks to Hobe, which can be found in\n his pine desk in his office, to the clerk of\n the General Court; is impatient to get on\n board ship and away; wishes he had spent\n another week in Richmond; with tomorrow's\n departure of the Republican, \n [Richard]\n Brent , the last of the Virginia\n Congressmen will have left the city; \"my\n spirits sink at parting with them.\"","Including Pst of ALS. 2 pages.","Will board the \n Grace at New\n Castle on Sunday [July 18] and will\n hopefully arrive in Amsterdam by the end of\n August; should hear from him next in\n October; \n Mr. [John]\n Brown [his secretary] has just arrived\n on the last stage; received his son Tom's\n letter of July 6; dined yesterday at William\n Bingham's country seat on the Schuylkil;\n describes the table setting and \n Mrs.\n [Anne Willing] Bingham's dressing in\n the latest fashions; besides his Virginia\n relations, he most enjoys the company of \n Mr. [Robert]\n Morris' family.","Including Pst of ALS. 2 pages.","Unfavorable winds have prevented them\n from reaching the open ocean; describes ship\n board accommodations, provisions, and\n companions, including John Brown, John G.\n Gamble, the Captain of the ship, Mr. Willis,\n and two Dutch gentleman; has sent a letter\n to Winchester, [Virginia] for his son, Tom;\n instructs her how to reach him [John\n Marshall] by letter.","Including Pst of ALS. 2 pages.","1200 or 1300 miles east of the Capes of\n Delaware, Marshall and the crew hailed a\n ship bound for America; has not been very\n seasick and has busied himself with reading;\n has arrived in Holland and sends news of his\n health and safety on the first American\n bound ship.","Including Pst of ALS. 2 pages.","The captain of a British frigate of\n Admiral Duncan's fleet at the mouth of the\n Texel boarded their ship on August 29 but\n treated them extremely politely upon\n learning that a U.S. minister was on board;\n observed the Dutch fleet in the Texel ready\n to move on the British if negotiations at\n Lisle [sic] [Lille] failed; describes the\n internal politics of the French government:\n the Directory presses for war while the\n Council of Five Hundred desires peace,\n fearing the politicization of the French\n army; Lord Malmesberry [sic] [Malmesbury;\n William Harris] is at Lisle [sic] [Lille]\n negotiating for peace between Britain and\n France; Tayleran Perigord [sic] [Charles\n Maurice de Talleyran Perigord], the French\n Minister of foreign affairs, has sent orders\n to French parts to grant immediate passports\n to the American envoys.","Arrived at the Hague and met with \n \n General [Charles C.] Pinckney on\n September 3; has just heard from an express\n from the Dutch minister at Paris to the\n Committee of Foreign Affairs about the\n Directory with the aid of the army moving\n against royalist and right wing opponents in\n the Directory, the Council of Five Hundred\n and the Council of Elders; discusses the\n impact which this coup d'etat of 18\n Fructidor should have upon foreign policy;\n the French government is now in the hands of\n those unfriendly to peace, and the moderates\n willing to judge the American case with\n fairness have been removed; received news of\n Mr.\n [Elbridge] Gerry's intended departure\n from Boston on July 23 and will await his\n arrival in Rotterdam for a week before they\n leave for Paris.","Reached the Hague on August 3 and is very\n much pleased with \n \n General [Charles C.] Pinckney ; had\n intended to set out for Paris immediately,\n but Pinckney received news from \n [Elbridge]\n Gerry on August 5 that he will arrive\n at the end of August; is perplexed and\n mortified at the delay; describes the Hague\n and its social life; mentions lack of\n companions for Pinckney's wife and daughter;\n has enjoyed the theatre even though he does\n not understand the language, and applauds\n the performances of \n \n Madame [Louise Rosalie Lefebvre] de Gazon\n [sic] [DuGrazon] ; the Directory's\n coup in Paris may abridge negotiations so as\n to occasion his return to America this fall,\n but he would resent such a circumstance even\n though he misses her immensely and is\n impatient to be with her again.","Including Pst of ALS. 2 pages.","The reports on the revolution in Paris\n have been confirmed; discusses violations of\n the French constitution, under the hand of\n the army, the very essence of a republic is\n destroyed, but \"French liberty may survive\n the shock it has sustained;\" \"All power is\n now in the undivided possession of those who\n have directed against us those hostile\n measures of which we so justly complain;\"\n will set out for Paris on Monday with or\n without \n [Elbridge]\n Gerry ; contrary to previous reports,\n negotiations still continue at Lille; their\n route to Paris is prescribed on their\n permit, probably to prevent their passing\n through Lisle [sic]; [Philippe Antoine] and \n Merlin [de\n Douai] is chosen director to replace\n Barthelemey and \n \n [Nicholas] Francois de Neufchatil [sic]\n [Neufchateau] to replace Carnot; Mr.\n Noel, the minister of France at the Hague\n has just informed him that 1,500 people have\n been arrested at Lyons and that \n General\n [Andre] Massena is marching to Avignon\n to quell resistance there.","Includes a copy of the letter which the\n three submitted to the French minister of\n foreign affairs after waiting to be received\n for a month; they have yet to receive an\n answer to this November 11 letter, and the\n condemnation of American vessels continues;\n the following is written in a numeric cipher\n which is decoded in superscript: \"Frequent\n and urgent attempts have been made to\n inveigle us again into negociation [sic]\n with persons not officially authorized, of\n which the obtaining of money is the\n basis...we have very little prospect of\n succeeding in our mission.\"","Has enclosed an issue of the Conservative\n [sic] [ \n \n Conservateur (Paris)] as an example\n of the abuse of the U.S. by the French\n press; discusses the arrests of innocent\n American citizens in Paris, including the\n cases of \n [Jesse]\n Putnam , \n [James V.]\n Murray and his brother [George W.\n Murray]; discusses the situation of American\n merchant marines who, being forced ashore\n after their vessels were captured, have no\n choice but to become French privateers;\n \"France resounds with the proposd [sic]\n invasion of England,\" but such talk may be\n designed merely to alarm Britain; discusses\n France's continental ambitions and Spain's\n situation; writes of the internal France\n political scene; encloses the November 7\n issue of the Leyden gazette with news of \n \n [Emmanuel Louis Henri Alexandre de Launay,\n comte] D'Anteaigues and \n [Joseph] Fauche\n [sic] [Fouche] and the reports of \n \n [Gillaume Alexandre] Troncon de\n [Du]Counaray and \n \n [Antoine-Claire] Thibidau [sic]\n [Thibaudeau] ; gives his opinion of\n the future French treatment of the U.S.","Has received no letters from her nor from\n his friends in the U.S.; will not be home\n until May and hopes that the Randolph's\n Executors case can be postponed until then;\n mentions amusements and dissipations of\n Paris; describes his new living arrangements\n [with Madame de Villette].","Including Pst of ALS. 2 pages.","Cannot settle or pay the accounts of\n American Consuls until the Congress of the\n United States acts on the matter; the three\n have agreed to transcend their powers to a\n limited extent in order to liberate distressed\n American seamen and return them to the U.S.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","Presents his compliments to Marshall; called\n at his lodgings twice this morning, but he\n [John Marshall] was not in; regrets that he\n will not be able to dine with him due to a\n previous engagement.","Arrived in Richmond a week ago but hasn't\n been able to attend to his business because of\n his many callers and because of the heat; he\n enjoys the company of his three year old\n daughter, Mary; discusses the health of his\n son, John, who is cutting teeth.","Including Pst of ALS. 2 pages.","Discusses Gerry's letter of 20 October 1798\n to President John Adams, in which he [Elbridge\n Gerry] makes several misstatements about his\n part in the XYZ Affair, which Marshall now\n refutes point by point; \"I must hope sir that\n you will think justly on this subject \u0026\n will thereby save us both the pain of an\n altercation...\"","Apologizes for an article lately published\n listing the offices which he [George\n Washington] offered to him [John Marshall],\n with which he [John Marshall] had nothing to\n do; the writer of the article, who obtained no\n information directly or indirectly from him\n [John Marshall], \"was unquestionably actuated\n by a wish to serve me and by resentment at the\n various malignant calumnies that have been so\n profusely bestowed on me.\"","Is pleased with his [John Marshall's]\n election to the [Congress] even though by a\n small majority; discusses the elections; asks\n him to inform him of the election results when\n all are known.","Will communicate the enclosures of his\n [George Washington's] last letter to \n Col.\n [Edward] Carrington and \n Col. [William]\n Heth when they arrive in town; comments\n upon the elections and the unexpected defeat of\n Col. [George]\n Hancock and Major [?] Haywood; discusses\n the composition of the new state legislature;\n and upon France's declaration of war upon\n Austria and its consequences.","Discusses military appointments and\n recommends several officers, including \n Col. [John]\n Cropper , \n Genl.\n [George Rogers] Clark , \n Genl. [Thomas]\n Posey , Col. James Breckenbridge, \n Col.\n [Callohill] Minnis , \n \n Genl. [Robert] Porterfield of Augusta , \n \n Genl. [Joseph] Blackwell of Fauquier ,\n and \n \n Col. [Joseph] Swearingean of Berkley ;\n comments upon the death of \n Mr. [Patrick]\n Henry .","Was unable to return the enclosed letter\n because he was out of town and his happy that\n he [George Washington] is not displeased that\n it was not transmitted to \n Col. [John]\n Cropper ; has just received his [George\n Washington's] second letter to that gentleman\n and will forward it immediately.","Including Pst of ADS, 2 pages. 5 August\n 1812. Indenture of Isaac Arnold and Elija\n Arnold assigning the title of the Manor of\n Leeds to James K. Marshall.","Encloses a blank power of attorney in order\n to transfer and draw dividends upon his\n Pennsylvania Bank Stock which Mr. [?] Pleasant\n has just remitted him [John Marshall];\n discusses land sales and the Manor of Leeds;\n discusses political situation and how the next\n election will affect their affairs; comments\n upon domestic unrest in regards to foreign\n affairs: \" I look forward with more\n apprehension than I have ever done to the\n future political events of our country;\" has\n just been informed of the total English defeat\n in Holland.","Including TCy of ALS. 2 pages.","Congratulates him on his marriage; the\n newspapers report Philadelphia mourning the\n death of Genl. Washington; hopes that\n moderation and toleration will succeed the\n violence of the last session of Congress; party\n strife exasperates Pennsylvania; the Governor\n has threatened to turn out of office every man\n who voted against him.","Replies to a letter which proposed a\n change of the law for collecting the\n internal revenue of the U.S. in\n nonintercourse law with France; mentions\n that popular feeling is against it, as the\n public sees it responsible for present low\n price of tobacco.","Has received her letter of August 5 and\n is pleased with her account of the\n children's behavior; approves of her sending\n the boys \"upcountry;\" Tom's [Thomas\n Marshall] last letter contained no news of\n her health.","Has just returned from a visit to Mt.\n Vernon where the widowed Mrs. Washington\n appeared \"tolerably cheerful;\" hopes Polly\n would \"show more firmness\" as a widow;\n pleased with his young son, Jacqueline's,\n last letter and hopes his schooling with Mr.\n Burns will continue.","Including Pst of ALS. 1 page.","Discusses the results of the presidential\n election of 1800 in Maryland, New England,\n and Pennsylvania, stating that it is \"an\n absolute certainty that any success in your\n state [South Carolina] elects him [Thomas\n Jefferson].","Reproaches himself for forgetting to\n recommend Major [?] Richardson to him [the\n commander of the 2nd Brig., Virginia\n militia] and does so now, hoping his neglect\n has not been a negative reflection of\n Richardson's abilities.","In compliance with his [John Jay] letter,\n the President [John Adams] has directed a\n requisition to be made to the Governor of\n Lower Canada for the delivery of Thomas\n Jamieson, alias Charles Splendor, a.k.a.\n Charles Johnston to the authorized person;\n the requisition and related documents are\n enclosed.","Discusses the difficulties involved in\n the present negotiations between King and\n the British commissioners; the President\n [John Adams] informs him that an informal\n agreement will be satisfactory as it will be\n impossible to induce the British cabinet to\n abandon their principles; matters are left\n to his good judgment; the stipulation of a\n sum is better than the present unsettled\n situation.","His financial embarrassments have\n prevented him from devoting time to writing\n the history or General Washington's life;\n sends him [John Marshall] a trunk containing\n Washington's books and papers, and an\n enclosed list thereof; wishes he weren't so\n ignorant of bankruptcy proceedings.","Presidential candidates, \n [Thomas]\n Jefferson and \n [Aaron]\n Burr , have an equal number or votes,\n and thus the House or Representatives must\n decide the issue; Marshall aces not care\n which way the election goes, but \"witnesses\n the anxiety of parties;\" suspects the\n contest will be decided by South Carolina;\n even it Jefferson wins, Burr probably \"will\n not surrender...all his pretensions to the\n office;\" is chagrined by the late Federalist\n defeat and blames unfaithful men like Mr.\n [Marston?] or Rhode Island who threw away\n their votes, as attributed in the letters to\n \n General [Alexander]\n Hamilton's pamphlet; the treaty with\n France is before the Senate; \n \n Chief Justice [Oliver] Ellsworth has\n resigned and \n Mr. [John]\n Jay has been nominated in his place;\n looks forward to returning to Richmond in\n March and leaving behind forever his\n political career.","An expression of the sentiments or\n respect which accompanied Vanderburgh's\n presidential commission to become a judge of\n Indiana Territory.","Discusses the probable policies of the new\n [Jefferson] administration; they will\n strengthen the state governments at the expense\n of the Federal, transferring as many powers to\n the House of Representatives as possible; the\n cabinet will probably consist of \n [James]\n Madison as Secretary of State, \n [Henry]\n Dearbourne [sic] as Secretary of War, \n [Albert]\n Gellatin or \n [Abraham]\n Baldwin as Secretary of the Treasury,\n maybe \n General\n [Robert] Smith as Secretary of the Navy,\n and \n [Levi]\n Lincoln or Mr. Livingstone [Robert R.\n Livingston] as Attorney General; many of\n Jefferson's party are disposed to press on to\n war, but the government will probably excite as\n much hate and resentment as possible amongst\n the people against England without proceeding\n to actual hostilities; the ill conduct of the\n British cruisers and Vice Admiralty and the\n remonstrances of American merchants well serves\n this purpose; delay the completion of your\n mission until you hear from the new\n administration as the present agreement with\n the British would not be ratified.","Including TCy of ALS. 2 pages.","Accepts his [Thomas Jefferson's] offer to\n administer the Presidential oath of office to\n him.","Being sued by Virginia on a bond of security\n which he signed for Daniel Brodhead several\n years ago, Marshall has learned that the\n recipient of this letter was acquainted with\n the advertisements which Brodhead was required\n to post; he sends him a commission, therefore,\n and asks for his and Colonel Anderson's\n depositions concerning Brodhead and his\n business.","Is composing a history of General\n Washington's life and requests information\n about the war in the Southern states, because\n General [?] Lincoln's letters to Washington in\n his [John Marshall's] possession do not tell\n much about the combined Franco-American\n operations at Savannah in 1779; send any\n important particulars respecting the siege of\n Charleston; is disgusted with the political\n world and hopes to see him [Charles Cotesworth\n Pinckney] in Richmond soon; asks about the\n political climate of South Carolina and thinks\n federalism may prevail in three districts in\n Virginia's state elections.","Discusses the mild but rainy weather and\n mentions various calamities which have befallen\n him: \"15 silver dollars\" of his \"had worn\n through\" his pocket \"and sought their liberty\n in the sands of Carolina;\" and when his man\n Peter unpacked his clothes, he discovered that\n he had not packed any of Marshall's breeches;\n \"I thought I shou'd be sans culotte only one\n day,\" but all the town's were too busy to work\n for him; \"I have the extreme mortification to\n pass the whole term without that important\n article of dress...\"","Including Pst of ALS. 3 pages.","Thanks him for an oration which he sent on\n the death of Alexander Hamilton; hopes that\n Hamilton's death will cast some odium upon\n dueling; was not aware that he had played a\n part in producing the commercial meet in\n Baltimore; did not know he resigned the\n emoluments of his military service.","Has received his [John Marshall's] November\n 2 letter requesting information for his [John\n Marshall's] history of General Washington's\n life, and will send his recollections of many\n transactions as soon as he can put them to\n paper; he [John Marshall] should also contact\n Colonel [Bushrod] Washington; will send the\n book \n Campaigns of 1780 and\n 1781 , supposedly written with [?]\n Tarleton's assistance, which contains more\n official documents than any other work and\n correct plans of some of the actions, if it\n will be of any use.","Arrived at her mother's yesterday, and found\n her not as well as he had hoped; her sisters\n are well; forgot to pay his brother Charles\n five dollars for his [John Marshall] son John's\n schooling; things are badly conducted at his\n [John Marshall's] plantation.","Discusses the problems of the Fairfax lands\n and the people of Winchester; will endeavor to\n raise a considerable part of the money required\n for payment.","Including TCy of ALS. 2 pages.","Asks for the money which he [John Ambler]\n owes him for payment for land; needs it to make\n his [John Marshall's] payment to Mr. [?]\n Fairfax, which fact he [John Ambler] knew; his\n [John Marshall's] brother William will take the\n contract off his [John Ambler's] hands if\n desired.","Takes no offense at his [John Marshall]\n printing of his [John Adams] letters to \n Gen[era]l\n Washington in his [John Marshall's]\n biography of Washington; in detailing the\n events of the last years of Washington's life,\n he [John Marshall] \"will run the gauntlet\n between two influential factions, armed with\n scorpions...;\" but such an investigation must\n be made; comments upon his [John Adams]\n appointing \n Gen[era]l\n Washington to head of the army.","Has received his [James Markham Marshall's]\n letter enclosing Col. Thurston's deed; did not\n hear about his [James Markham Marshall's] suit\n with Stevens; Fitzhugh's note is in [?]\n Williams' hand but has yet to get process\n executed on him as he stays at different places\n in Maryland and can't be easily found;\n discusses arrangements made for their nephew\n Tom, with their brother William.","Discusses politics and report of Mr. [?]\n Chesnut that the Democratic Party in South\n Carolina would unquestionably support him\n [Charles Cotesworth Pinckney]; the late\n convention at New York confided that \"unless\n this point can be gained...we [the Federalists]\n shall again miscarry;\" no times have been more\n perilous than the present because of the\n internal changes wrought \"by a party always\n hostile to our constitution\" and because of\n even greater external threats; if the present\n foreign policy with France is continued, the\n United States \"will soon become an empty name\"\n and will no longer be independent; has spent\n his time on agricultural pursuits instead of\n professional duty, and scarcely ever reads a\n newspaper, but the nation's troubles are too\n serious for him to continue to do so; the\n Virginia Federalists may win three or four\n seats in the next Congress, but there is no\n hope for the presidential election.","Requests him to pay James Brown one thousand\n dollars when his [John Marshall's] quarterly\n salary accrues on October 1.","Richmond Federalists have mutinied, and have\n recommended to their brethren throughout\n Virginia to support the Monroe ticket; was out\n of town but attempts to explain the reasons for\n such action.","Is honored to be chosen as a corresponding\n member of the Massachusetts Historical Society;\n as he will not return to Washington, [D.C.]\n until February, perhaps some member of Congress\n might find room in his baggage for the volume\n he [John Eliot] mentioned.","Asks him to send the collections of the\n Society.","Discusses arrangements being made with Mr.\n [?] Willing and [?] Francis to take his [John\n Marshall] two sons, [John and James Keith\n Marshall], into their counting house when they\n reach the age of 16; outlines their recommended\n course of study before then; Mr. [?] Waln[?]\n will receive his [John Marshall] other son,\n [Edward Carrington Marshall], into his\n mercantile establishment, if the precarious\n state of the country: commerce permits it, when\n he comes of age; asks if he should send his\n [John Marshall] half-pipe of wine to Richmond\n by way of Norfolk.","Including Ph. 1 page. Incomplete.","Acknowledges letters of Apr. 22, 29, and 30.\n Outlines patents to Virginia land. Philip\n Pendleton, Anderson, and Hunter involved in\n caveat; advises against use of treasury warrant\n for 1,180 acres. Colston. Decision in Hunter\n and Fairfax case, decided in favor of Hunter.\n Asks Lee's opinion as to appeal to Supreme\n Court; John Marshall favors appeal; sending\n record; Jones to be engaged as attorney to help\n Lee. Cause precedent for pending caveats if\n Supreme Court \"against us,\" save expense; if\n \"in our favor,\" probably respected or ascertain\n points for ultimate determination \"in our\n favor.\"","Is gratified by the compliments he [John\n Marshall] paid to him in his last letter, and\n hopes to continue his service to the country;\n has not learned if [?] Serruier is charged with\n any special orders to the government; [?]\n Turreau has for some time desired to return to\n France; asks him [John Marshall] for a proper\n statement of an anecdote concerning Temple\n Franklin and Benjamin Franklin Bache's\n unsuccessful attempts to establish a newspaper,\n which he [John Marshall] related to him last\n year.","Including Pst of ALS. 2 pages.","Upon his return from the \"laborious\n relaxation\" of his farm, he found the\n President's [Madison] message, the report of\n the committee of foreign relations, and the\n declaration of war against Great Britain.","Accepts his invitation to dine with him.","Accepts his invitation to dine with him on\n Wednesday.","Cannot direct the special court he [Littleon\n Wailer Tazewell] requested because the law\n authorizing a circuit judge to perform the\n duties of a district judge is limited only to\n the case of the disability of an existing\n district judge, and does not extend to the case\n of a vacancy of that office; has notified the\n Secretary of State of the public hardships if\n an appointment is postponed.","Received a copy of his book, Historical\n Letters, and asks Mr. [?] Pleasant to sign him\n up as a subscriber; comments favorably upon the\n work, a comparative history of the nations of\n the world.","Received his cheek for $500 and letter upon\n his [John Marshall] return from North Carolina;\n will receive four sets of \n The Life of\n Washington from \n Mr. [Mason\n Locke] Weems ; discusses a case of\n Admiralty business which he had just heard in\n circuit court and asks for his [Bushrod\n Washington] opinion; is anxious to terminate\n next court's business so he can devote himself\n to the farm.","Including TCy of ALS. 2 pages.","Discusses whether the power to pass\n bankruptcy laws resides in the states or in the\n federal government; discusses part of\n Constitution which inhibits passage of \"law\n impairing the obligation of contracts\" and how\n it relates to bankruptcy laws; says he [Bushrod\n Washington] heard the argument and his opinion\n could be relied upon better than his.","Asks what provision is made for them at\n their session; will he make accommodations for\n them; asks \"Are we to have peace; or is the war\n to be continued till we are dismembered?\"","Asks him [Bushrod Washington] to ask the\n counting house of Messrs. Willing \u0026 Francis\n if they are still willing to take his [John\n Marshall] fifteen year old son James (now a\n student at Cambridge) into their firm.","Has made inquiries in response to his\n letter; land for which taxes are unpaid before\n August will be sold; payment can be made to the\n Sheriff of the county; discusses George\n Washington letters and how he thinks they\n should be published; asks him to settle a\n newspaper account for him.","Encloses a copy of a letter from Robert\n Colston in which he [Robert Colston] complains\n of his [John Ambler's] withholding payment and\n threatens him John Ambler] with a lawsuit;\n suggests that he [John Ambler] give Mr. Colston\n an order on Mr. [?] Smith for the amount in\n question with as little delay as possible.","Discusses civil admiralty jurisdiction about\n which he had formed an opinion from the\n characters in a case of piracy not from\n precedent; wishes him to discuss revision of \n \"The Life\" [of George\n Washington] with Mr. Wayne while he is\n in Philadelphia; explains his ideas for the\n organization of the work; says it must be\n prepared at leisure and not offered until there\n is a demand for it.","Encloses a memorandum from the Auditors'\n office concerning William Marshall's lands in\n Nason and Franklin counties, [Kentucky], and a\n letter which he wishes delivered to his sister\n [Jane (Marshall) Taylor]; she desired him to\n engage a house for her at Fauquier Court\n House.","Encloses a memorandum from the Filson club.\n 2 pages. Including TCy of ALS.","After reading the recipient's address to the\n New York Historical Society, he sends him his\n thoughts on the study of history.","Discusses the Washington social life; is\n impressed with the French minister and his wife\n [?]; \n [William]\n Wirt arrived yesterday but he brought no\n letters; warns her to take enough blankets to\n arm herself against the intense cold when she\n goes to Chiccahoniiny [sic] on February 21.","Including Pat of ALS. 2 pages.","Asks Marshall to administer the Presidential\n oath to him.","Including Pst of ALS. 1 page. Also including\n TCy of ALS. 1 page.","Agrees to administer the Presidential oath\n of office to James Monroe.","Including Ph. neg. of ALS. 1 page.","Has read in \n Jaquelin\n [Marshall]'s last letter news of her ill\n health, and advises her not to expose herself\n to the cold in her fears of being too warm; he\n is in good health and is busily employed. 1\n page. ALS. Including ALS on verso from John\n Marshall, to his son [John?], discussing farm\n matters, and asking him to receive the\n overseer's letter concerning such things as\n preparing the soil with plaster of paris\n grubbing, cutting, and burning; does not want\n him to send packages by post, but by private\n conveyance if available; sends him a note for\n $60 to pay Mr.[?] Cocke for 20 barrels of corn;\n asks about \n James [Keith\n Marshall] and hopes he has engaged in a\n course of reading.","Also Including TCy of ALS. l page. Also\n Including Pst of ALS. 2 pages.","Encloses a letter from \n \n General [Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du\n Motier, Marquis de] Lafayette , which he\n has been unable to deliver in person, as the\n General had instructed; saw \n Juge\n [sic] [Bushrod] Washington several months\n earlier, and was informed by him that Mr. [?]\n Graham returned to Lafayette the General's\n papers, which Marshall had borrowed.","Including ALS, 22 April 1817, from \n [Marquis de]\n Lafayette , La grange, [France], to John\n Marshall, United States, Virginia. Introducing\n his friend M. des Caves; praises Marshall's\n biography of Washington and says that most of\n his correspondence with Washington was lost\n during the French Revolution; mentions the\n copies of Washington's letters to him, which he\n desires to be returned to him by Bushrod\n Washington; recommends M. desCaves to him [John\n Marshall].","Including TCy of ALS. 2 pages.","Is unable to accept his invitation to dine\n with him because of his health.","Requests that his case before the \n [Supreme]\n Court be given a day's respite as the\n extremes of weather have incapacitated him.","Has received and finally read the address\n which he presented to the New York\n Historical Society; was much pleased with\n its clarity and lucid arrangement, and feels\n the public would like to see more from his\n pen.","Asks for information about nail making\n machines in Boston, for a friend of his who\n might like to purchase one; the opinion in\n the Banks case \"has roused the sleeping\n spirit of Virginia\" and will be attacked in\n the papers.","Asks him to purchase books for his [John\n Marshall] nephew, [?] Taylor who is at\n school in Kentucky; makes arrangements to\n pay the bookseller and [?] Deiplaine, and to\n have him send the volumes, including \" \n Terence [sic] \u0026\n Livy in Latin, Longinus , \n Thucydides, \u0026\n Demosthenes in Greek , also \n Xenophens retreat of\n the 10,000 \" to his [John Marshall]\n brother, \n Doctor\n [Louis] Marshall , in Kentucky;\n discusses dissatisfaction of Virginian\n politicians with the Supreme Court's opinion\n on the Bank question; \"we shall be denounced\n bitterly in the papers... and we shall\n undoubtedly be condemned as a pack of\n consolidating aristocratics;\" mentions\n unexpected and long unheard of financial\n distress of Richmond merchants.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page. Also\n including Pst of ALS. 2 pages.","Extracted from a letter of Joseph Story's\n to John Marshall describing a $1000\n nail-making machine invented by Mr. [?]\n Perkins, and used extensively in the\n Amesbury Factory near Salem, Massachusetts;\n also describes two different, less expensive\n models patented by Mr. [?] Reed [?], and\n discusses arrangements for their sale and\n delivery.","Discusses an error in his published\n manuscript [of a court decision?] which he\n [John Marshall] wishes Mr. [ ] Bronson to\n correct.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page. Including\n Pst of ALS. 1 page.","Discusses the gross misrepresentations\n the Democratic-Republicans have attributed\n to the Court's opinion in the Bank case in\n order to excite ferment in the masses; asks\n his advice on a case in Admiralty Court,\n that the \n Little\n Charles , libeled for violating the\n 1808 Embargo Act.","If the publication of his [John Marshall]\n work has not yet commenced, he would rather\n have the signature changed to \"A\n Constitutionalist\"; the letters of\n Amphyction and of Hampden have had more\n influence in the country than in Richmond;\n hopes some respectable legislators will\n refute them.","Questions him [Joseph Story] about an\n admiralty case concerning the hypothecation\n of a vessel belonging to the port of\n Richmond; discusses legal principles of\n hypothecation in general in the United\n States; does not think that a piece in the\n Boston papers should be republished, Mr. [?]\n Wheaton's appendix; leaves the opinion in\n the militia case for him [Joseph Story] to\n write.","Discusses the legal principles of\n hypothecation and maritime law as he [Joseph\n Story] sees them in regards to a case in New\n York, and concludes that the chief-question\n is \"whether the ports of the different\n states are to be deemed foreign ports in\n respect to the rights of the hypothecation\n or of implied lien\"; in his [Joseph Story]\n district, as well as in South Carolina,\n Maryland, Pennsylvania, and New York, they\n are; he [Joseph Story] \"is open to argument\n and will follow in a better path. And as the\n advancement of the law, and not merely of\n our private opinions should be the great\n ambition of all judges, I am quite content\n to yield to the judgement of others.\"","Mentions a trial at Richmond for piracy\n and discusses the lack of international law\n regarding the same; writes of his\n subscription to Mr. Bronson's \n Gazette of the United\n States which has become the \n Union .","Discusses constitutional issues involving\n piracy, the slave trade, and the Supreme Court;\n mentions \n \n [Littleton Waller] Tazewell .","Has not formed an opinion of the case which\n was remanded to the circuit court of\n Pennsylvania; congratulates him on the prospect\n of a full docket in \n [New] Jersey and\n upon his empty one in North Carolina; he called\n on Mr. Blair, the President of the Bible\n Society, who says he [Bushrod Washington] was a\n permanent member of the society and in arrears\n for the years 1816-1819; was frozen on the \n Rosaline , has\n scarcely thawed out.","Hopes none of the papers of George\n Washington have miscarried; sent the last ones\n to him [Bushrod Washington] by a coal vessel of\n Alexandria; has employed a person to copy the\n pre-Revolutionary letters of General\n Washington, and he [John Marshall] will himself\n copy the military letters in his possession\n after he [Bushrod Washington] informs him in\n which volume they will be published; he [John\n Marshall] will also proceed to copy the letters\n written between the close of the war and the\n adoption of the constitution, and has retained\n no others.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page. Including Pst\n of ALS. 2 pages.","Encloses an affidavit stating that he [John\n Marshall] lost the certification meant for \n T[homas?]\n Marshall and asks him [Bushrod\n Washington] to send from Philadelphia a bond to\n be executed; has received from Mr. Ward of\n Salem a copy of a letter written by \n Mr. W[illia]m\n Fairfax to Capt. Clarke of Salem dated\n Belvoir 22d. February 1749, which states that\n \"Major Washington [has] just returned from\n London whither he lately went to get his\n arrears of pay \u0026 be put on the\n establishment of half pay...\" concludes that\n this cannot be George Washington; poses\n questions about George Washington's genealogy;\n asks him [Bushrod Washington] to talk with the\n editor of Langhornes' Plutarch while in\n Philadelphia about an anecdote concerning\n George Washington selling his old charger.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page. Including Pst\n of ALS. 2 pages.","Discusses Mr. Moorehead's purchase of Mr.\n Johnson's land in Fauquier County; wheat and\n other crops are doing well.","Describes being thrown by a horse; will\n bring the letters they agreed to copy to\n Washington; wishes him to speak again with Mr.\n Wayne about a second edition of the life of \n [George]\n Washington ; recommends that \n Mr. [Mason\n Locke] Weems have a subscription paper\n for the letters and life at the same time;\n thinks they should reduce the charges on the\n life to half a dollar per volume, then the\n second volume might be sold for two dollars a\n volume.","Hopes his [Bushrod Washington] health will\n improve so he can come visit at the end of the\n month so they can deliver opinions on various\n cases including the one from Virginia \"which\n has exerted so much commotion in our\n legislature\" [a case involving an act of\n Congress allowing a lottery in Washington, D.C.\n with ticket sales in Virginia contrary to\n Virginia law. See JK/159l/V5/Rare Book\n (Virginia)/].","A letter of \n James [Keith\n Marshall]'s informed him [John Marshall]\n of her return from Chicahominy; hopes that the\n celebrations of the 22nd did not disturb her\n too much; \n Judge\n [Bushrod] Washington is not well; he\n [John Marshall] is very busy at Court; dines\n out frequently and eats too much; does not\n attend the continual gay parties in Washington.\n 2 pages. ALS. Including ALS on verso from John\n Marshall to his son [James Keith Marshall],\n asking about the health of Jacob, one of the\n slaves; tells him to purchase as much clover\n seed as he can if he does not get the money\n from [?] Smith.","Including Pst of ALS. 2 pages.","Hopes his health was not injured by his\n traveling to Philadelphia to perform his\n circuit duties; mentions case in his circuit\n involving merchants indebted to the U.S. on\n duty bonds; recommends the writings of Algernon\n Sidney.","Asks his opinion of legalities of a case\n concerning insolvency and priority of payment\n to creditors; the Supreme Court opinion in the\n Lottery case virulently assaulted in the\n newspapers, especially by Algernon Sidney in\n the \n Enquirer who is\n \"supposed to be the champion of the state\n rights.. .[but] really is the champion of\n dismemberment;\" is anxious to hear if his\n [Joseph Story] and \n [Daniel]\n Webster's amendment to the Massachusetts\n constitution was approved by the people or\n not.","Discusses legal principles of partnership,\n joint property and the priority of the payment\n of debts under English and American bankruptcy\n laws; writes of the federal government; reports\n on the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention;\n will send on the next vessel for Richmond some\n Salem fish and a recipe on how to cook\n them.","Thanks him for his opinion on the case on\n which he [John Marshall] consulted him; has\n enclosed the letter from \n Mr. [James]\n Madison to Genl. Washington which he\n [John Marshall] had selected last winter but\n forgot to send; discusses the legal matter of\n inland and foreign bills and hypothecation\n relating to the New York case.","Including TyC of ALS. 1 page. Including Pst\n of ALS. 2 pages.","Is grateful for his expressions of esteem;\n hopes the harmony of the bench will never be\n disturbed; discusses \n [Thomas]\n Jefferson's and \n [James]\n Madison's doubts of the Supreme Court as\n the ultimate arbiter of the constitutional\n questions; comments upon Jefferson's character\n and influence over the people; encloses\n Algernon Sidney's essays with their weak\n argument and violent language; in the Virginian\n newspapers \"not a pen is drawn in support of\n the sound principles of the constitution of the\n Union... I look elsewhere for safety.\"","Has received the fish and will cook it\n according to instructions; discusses Mr. [?]\n Hall and his intended publication of Algernon\n Sidney's essays and asks if he [Joseph Story]\n can prevent it; Mr. [?] Caedwell has not yet\n sent the volume of the debates of the\n Massachusetts Constitutional Convention;\n discusses the designs of the\n Democratic-Republicans in attacking the Supreme\n Court; questions him about a case involving\n William McKinly, a tax collector, and his\n depositions.","Asks him to join him at dinner on Tuesday at\n 4 o'clock.","Makes arrangements for his [Littleton Waller\n Tazewell's] deposition to be taken on 23 May;\n if \n \n General [Robert Barraud] Taylor and Mr.\n [?] Blair are out of town, send for magistrates\n and have the necessary steps taken.","Has received the President's message to\n Congress concerning internal improvements, \"a\n question which very much divides the opinions\n of intelligent men;\" \"a general power over\n internal improvements, if to be exercised by\n the Union, would certainly be cumbersome to the\n government, \u0026 of no utility to the people.\n But to the extent you recommend, it would be\n productive of no mischief, and of great good;\"\n he [John Marshall] despairs that such a measure\n will be adopted.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","Has found in the Journal of the House of\n Delegates that the bill for confiscating Lord\n Fairfax's estate passed in January 1786, but\n was defeated in the Senate; discusses the role\n of the Supreme Court in deciding cases relating\n to treaties; will not be at Happy Creek before\n 6 August; will also visit Cumberland, Mr.\n Colston's and maybe Bath.","Including TCy of ALS. 2 pages.","Grants power of attorney to him [Benjamin\n Watkyns [sic] Leigh] to make or endorse any\n notes given by Edward Colston, James Marshall\n or \n James\n M[arkham] Marshall for the purpose of\n paying a debt to the Bank of the United States\n due from Nimrod Farrow or from the estate of \n Turner [?]\n Dixon .","Asked Mr. [?] Williams about the information\n he [Jaquelin B. Harrie] desired; he [Williams]\n wrote that he gave his letter to the delegate\n from Florida, who has yet to answer it.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","Discusses his trip from Richmond and the\n rainy weather; did not find Mr. [?] Skinker at\n home, so arrived last night at his friend's \n General [?]\n Blackwell's , who is almost blind; Tom\n [Thomas Marshall] was there earlier\n electioneering; the election will be closer\n than he [John Marshall] had originally\n thought.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page. Also including\n Pst of ALS. 2 pages.","Met his son, \n Edward\n C[arrington] Marshall ; introduced him to\n several gentlemen in Boston, and recommended\n him to the President of Harvard College; made\n arrangements for him [Edward Carrington\n Marshall] to live in Cambridge and to be\n tutored until rooms at the College are assigned\n after commencement; discusses his [Edward\n Carrington Marshall] expenses; takes great\n pleasure in aiding him in all measures;\n discusses his [John Marshall] latest decision\n on the Cashier of the Branch Bank of the United\n States; is anxious about the appointment of \n \n [Supreme Court] Judge [Henry B.]\n Livingston's successor.","Thanks him for his friendly attentions to\n his [John Marshall's] son, [Edward Carrington\n Marshall]; gives his opinion of the case of the\n Bank of the United\n States v. Dandridge ; alarmed at the\n rumored successor of their \"much lamented\n friend\" [Supreme Court Justice Henry B.\n Livingston].","Discusses libels against his father, John\n Lowell, and against himself; encloses letters\n to editors printed in local papers in\n defense.","Including NCls. 6 pages.","Received his letters of 25 and 28 October\n and was astonished to learn that he feels he\n [John Marshall] deliberately and unnecessarily\n \"altered expressions which would be construed\n into the imputation of a crime..., against a\n gentleman...\"; there was no evidence in the\n cases decision that his [John Lowell] testimony\n was disregarded or discredited-- \"the opinion\n speaks for itself.\"","Brother \n [Bushrod]\n Washington had to adjourn the court at\n Philadelphia because of his illness; discusses\n a case on his [John Marshall's] circuit\n concerning the American ship, \n Pilot , captured\n by pirates and later recaptured by a squadron\n under \n Commodore\n [David] Porter ; comments upon the\n extreme bitterness of \n Mr. [John]\n Adams , whom he still respects, and the\n publication of some of his correspondence.","Received the President's message to\n Congress, and thanks him for his mark of polite\n attention; he [John Marshall] too thinks that\n \"we cannot look on the present state of the\n world with indifference.\"","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","Thanks him for the report of the Secretary\n of the Treasury.","Was uneasy that she heard of his accident\n before his letter reached her; his fall has\n kept him from court longer than he had\n expected; feels pain only when he moves;\n doctors say he is mending faster than they had\n expected; is treated with a great deal of\n kindness and attention; wives of the cabinet\n members call on him; passes the long hours of\n the night by thinking of her and their early\n life together.","Including Pst of ALS. 2 pages.","Will soon return to Richmond by steamboat;\n makes arrangements to have his servant, Oby,\n meet him at the dock to carry his portmanteau;\n is not able to use his arm; was surprised to\n see \n \n John and Elizabeth [(Alexander)\n Marshall] , who were in town because the\n boat on which they traveled was being repaired,\n and they were making their way to Baltimore by\n stage.","Including Pst of ALS. 2 pages.","Missed seeing him at Hanover Court House on\n Monday, presumably because of the cloudiness of\n the weather; will be there next court day to\n meet him unless it is inconvenient, in which\n case he [Tom] should let him [John Marshall]\n know immediately.","Has just finished reading the copy of his\n \"Dissertation on the Nature and Extent of the\n Jurisdiction of the Courts of the United\n States,\" which he sent to him [John Marshall];\n thanks him for the flattering manner in which\n he discusses some of his [John Marshall]\n opinions.","Thanks for sending a copy of his message to\n Congress; regrets that he [Monroe] is retiring,\n but congratulates him on his presidency.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","Reached Washington yesterday and paid his\n accustomed visit to the President; he [John\n Marshall] occupies the same room as last year;\n neither \n Judge\n [William] Johnson nor \n [Joseph]\n Story has arrived, and \n [Thomas]\n Todd is close to death; the roads were so\n good for the winter, he was glad he did not\n take the steamboat; rode from Hanover\n Courthouse to Fredericksburg with a Mrs.\n (Booth) Stone; dined with his aunt [?] Keith on\n Sunday; his nephew, William Marshall, visited\n him on Saturday; hopes that Mr. [?] Picket has\n filled the ice house already.","Including Pst of AL. 2 pages.","Discusses presidential election of 1824;\n ascribes it to the letters of [?] Kremer and to\n Mr. [?] Vanraensaeller's reluctant last-minute\n vote for [John Quincy] Adams; speculates about\n the Cabinet; including Mr. [?] Crawford's\n refusal of the Treasury, and \n [Henry]\n Clay's rumored acceptance of the State\n Department.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","Has received letters from his son and from\n his nephew, George [?], and has learned of the\n marriage of his [John Marshall] nephew, Edward\n Colston, who has moved to Honeywood, [Berkeley\n County, Virginia]; asks her to inform Mr. [?]\n Cole that he [John Marshall] has received his\n new black suit, and that \n [George]\n Kremer will soon print \"a most scurrilous\n piece of abuse against \n [Henry] Clay [an\n anonymous letter in the \n Columbia\n Observer accusing him of bargaining with\n John Quincy Adams to give his support in the\n presidential election in return for the office\n of Secretary of State]; her [Mary Willis Ambler\n Marshall] cousin, Mrs. [?] Walker, thanked him\n for his check and the subscription raised for\n her by the members of Congress.","Including Pst of AL. 2 pages.","Asks him to accept a copy of his\n [Marshall's] colonial history; congratulations\n him on the successful termination of his\n political career.","Is much honored by his election to the\n Bunker Hill Monument Association and asks what\n his membership will entail.","Has received his letters and documents\n stating his [Monroe's] claims on the U.S.;\n expects that he [Monroe] will receive as much\n as has ever been allowed to others for similar\n services.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","Thanks her for her letter recommending [?]\n Caldwell, but he has already pledged himself to\n another person seeking office.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","In response to his [John Marshall's]\n requests in his last letter, he [John Sergeant]\n is enclosing copies of Mr. [?] Giles' speech\n found in Dunlap and Claypoole's 16 December\n 1796 paper and in the \n Aurora of the\n 15th sources located at the [?] Library; and\n germane to his biography of Washington.","Thanks him for a copy of his [John\n Marshall's] history of the English colonies\n of North America which Joseph Story\n delivered a few weeks earlier; quotes Lord\n Kames [?] from his \n The Gentleman\n Farmer (1779); \"I disregard the\n present rebellion of our Americans; for they\n will soon be reduced to obedience;\"\n discusses present westward movement of the\n American population and predicts a new\n western confederacy of the movement of the\n national capital westward in the next\n generation; comments upon his [John\n Marshall's] statements on slavery,\n mentioning \n \n Colonel [Edward] Carrington's and \n Mr.\n [Thomas] Jefferson's views on\n miscegenation and the Colonization Society's\n efforts; discusses Georgia's \n \n Governor [George M.] Troup's detested\n views on the slaves and Creek Indians, which\n seem to be held by most Georgians, who would\n defy the authority of the Union if they\n dared; that authority rests on \"the purity,\n the intellegence and the firmness\" of the\n Supreme Court; hopes he [John Marshall] long\n remains at the head.","Has read \n Mr.\n [William Branch] Giles' latest article\n in the \n Richmond\n Enquirer on John Quincy Adams, which\n attributes his [John Quincy Adams's] \"past\n conversion to \n \n Jeffersonism \" to \" \n his own personal\n promotion and aggrandizement; \" Giles\n claims that Adams' message indicated his\n intentions to introduce unlimited powers\n into the government, but he [Timothy\n Pickering] disagrees; discusses Adams'\n policies regarding internal improvements, a\n national university, and the promotion of\n agriculture, all of which Washington\n recommended, and their constitutionality;\n discusses Giles, his character, and his\n political ambitions; writes of James\n Monroe's and William Pinckney's treaty with\n Great Britain and their letter to Congress,\n Monroe's bid for the Presidency, and his\n subsequent reconciliation with Jefferson;\n mentions Secretary of the State Robert\n Smith's correspondence with the British\n Minister [?] Jackson; his resignation, and\n published defense; discusses the death of\n Virginian U.S. District Court Judge Cyrus\n Griffin and the appointment of his successor\n John Tyler, ex-Governor of Virginia; which\n was made to make room for Monroe as\n Governor; Monroe was appointed to the State\n Department, \"the vestibule to the\n President's Palace,\" when Smith resigned;\n discusses Jefferson's motives for not laying\n the treaty with Great Britain before\n Congress; concludes with Joseph Hopkinson's\n thoughts on Jefferson, Madison, and\n Monroe.","Left Alexandria for Washington a day\n early because the weather was good for\n traveling; he, \n [Bushrod]\n Washington , and \n [Gabriel]\n Duval await the arrival of their\n brother \n Justices\n [Joseph] Story and \n [Smith]\n Thompson ; Judge Johnson went by way\n of Norfolk and will not arrive till\n Wednesday or Thursday; \n Judge\n [Thomas] Todd is unable to make the\n journey; discusses his journey and health:\n \"I am under the persecution of the\n infuenza;\" will open the court and wait on\n the President tomorrow.","Including Pst of ALS. 2 pages.","Discusses his daily routine and his\n health; \n [Judge\n Joseph] Story arrived today; he was\n delayed a week in Philadelphia by influenza;\n discusses a loan of $200 to Tom [Thomas\n Marshall, his son]; has received three\n invitations for dinner parties this week;\n discusses the gaiety of the Washington\n social scene; jests about Lucy Fisher [his\n niece] marrying [Dr. Daniel Norborne Norton]\n and persuading him to run for Congress.","John [Marshall,\n his son] passed through the city, but\n he did not have a chance to see him; was\n pleased to hear that she was well, expecting\n \"the uncommon warmth of the season had\n relaxed your system so as to distress your\n feelings;\" he enjoys his usual health; \"was\n at a very great crowd at \n Mrs.\n [John Quincy] Adams' drawing room;\"\n dined yesterday with \n \n Mr. [John] Randolph [of Roanoke] who\n is as much engaged in party politics as he\n has always been.","Including Pst of ALS. 2 pages.","Congratulates him on his good health;\n gives his thoughts on Southern slavery;\n mentions Georgia's Governor [George M.\n Troup] and the treaty with the Creeks;\n discusses \n Mr.\n [William Branch] Giles ; thanks him\n for his recollections of the events of the\n last twenty years.","Has received his letter expressing his\n interest in the position of the clerk of the\n Supreme Court; the applicants are numerous\n and worthy; recalls their former\n acquaintance, and is confident in his\n competence, but wants to make such an\n important appointment \"without any\n pre-engagements.\"","Replies to his letter recommending Mr.\n [?] Randall for the vacant office in the\n Clerkship of the Supreme Court; discusses\n his feelings regarding the appointment; has\n been having trouble with famine and\n drought.","Discusses marriage arrangements of his\n son \n \n Edward [Carrington Marshall] with the\n Judge's daughter.","Apologizes for his last letter of 15\n September 1826; did not realize that he\n [Fay] was opposed to Edward Carrington\n Marshall's marriage to his [Fay's] daughter;\n \"I hope Edward has received notice of your\n decision... It will be [a] kindness to\n awaken him as soon as possible from the\n dreams of happiness in which he has been too\n long indulging.\"","Has finally discovered the letters in the\n Aurora from 23\n October to 5 November 1795 written by the\n \"Calm Observer\" relating to the charge of\n illegal payment of the President's salary\n and the replies thereto by \n [Alexander]\n Hamilton and \n O.[?]\n Wolcott ; these were not written by \n [William\n Branch] Giles ; \n Judge\n [Bushrod] Washington had to break up\n his court because of ill-health.","Has received his letter by Mr. [?]\n Doddridge; apologizes for any inconvenience\n which may be caused by the disposal of the\n letters of recommendation which the\n recipient sent by Mr. [?] Rowan and Colonel\n [?] Johnson.","Discusses legal principles involved in\n the Fairfax lands case.","Including TCy of ALS. 4 pages.","Has seen in the papers discussions between\n his brother Johnson [?] and him [Timothy\n Pickering] respecting Count Pulaske [Pulaski]\n and the Battle of Germantown; \"with the\n exception of Judge [?] Peters, yourself, \u0026 \n Mr. [?]\n Wolcot[t] I can scarcely find any person\n who was conspicuous on the great theatre of our\n country when I first began to mix in public\n affairs;\" asks if he will travel south to\n Washington; discusses George Washington and his\n firmness of character.","Encloses a check on the bank of Winchester\n for $600 to be endorsed to Mr. [?] Smith; was\n surprised that the sale of the land was $200\n less than he thought; Alexander Marshall\n informed him [John Marshall] that he settled\n $200 which he owed him with Mr. Smith; finished\n cutting his wheat and rye last week; his corn\n has suffered from the cold wet spring and now\n from drought; discusses weather and crop\n pests.","Including Pst of ALS. 3 pages.","Discusses the science of agriculture and\n whether or not it should be taught at a\n university.","Has read the review which will be published\n in the forthcoming January 1828 edition of the \n North American\n Review of his [John Marshall's] \n History of the\n Colonies ; encloses a copy of it; hopes\n to meet him in January and introduce Mrs. Story\n to him.","Has received his flattering letter and\n biography of him and warmly expresses his\n gratitude; accommodations for Mrs. Story may be\n had at Mr. [?] Rapine's in Washington;\n discusses the present contest for the\n Presidency; fears that \"our constitution is not\n to be so long lived as its real friends have\n hoped.\"","Thanks him for a copy of his speech on\n \"retrenchment and reform;\" intended to call\n on him, but the pressure of official duties\n and the indolence of age have prevented\n it.","Including TCy of ALS. 2 pages.","Must decline his invitation to be his\n companion on the \n \n Potomac because of his ill health;\n Mr. [?] Sheppherd has given a good account\n of \"our Jacobin Banker's Clerk\" [?];\n discusses Sheppherd's and the clerk's\n lives.","Begs him to accept his portrait painted\n by \n Mr.\n [Chester] Harding in Washington as a\n token of his sincere and affectionate\n friendship; will not send it to Richmond\n until \n Mr.\n [Horatio] Greenough casts his bust;\n enjoyed a pleasant trip from Washington to\n Richmond where he has seen none but his\n family since his return; the spirit of party\n is extremely bitter, but he plans to leave\n for the upper country; had one of his\n [Joseph Story's] fish yesterday; received\n news from Mr. [?] McGruder of the loss of\n his [John Marshall's] sortout.","Takes the liberty to write him; regrets\n that it was necessary for him [John\n Marshall] to announce publicly his feelings\n on the election, because it will not subject\n him to the abuse of the partisans.","Did not have a chance to answer \n Mr.\n [Chester] Harding's letter asking what\n should be done with his [John Marshall's]\n portrait; if he [Chester Harding] is in\n Boston, have him deliver it to you [Joseph\n Story]; asks him [Joseph Story] to take care\n of it till he [John Marshall] can have it\n and his bust sent to Richmond; discusses how\n the \n \n Marylander misquoted him on the\n coming election; an epidemic has prevailed\n extensively in Richmond.","Has received his letter and is grateful\n for his kind words; although the still burnt\n Kentucky Whiskey is nauseous to my palate,\n \"I can yet enjoy the aroma of an exquisite\n glass of Madeira, or Paxasete, or Burgundy\n and I doubt whether my head would have been\n more affected by a bottle of Clos Von gedt,\n capped with another of such [silvery?]\n Champagne, than by your truly kind\n note.\"","Discusses the recipient's proposed\n amendment to a bill before the House of\n Representatives concerning the U.S. Circuit\n Court System.","Letter declining their honor of joining\n the Richmond and Manchester Sabbath School\n in a 4th of July procession, not because he\n does not believe in the principles inspiring\n it, but because he must leave town due to\n Mrs. Marshall's feeble health; (the letter\n was probably written and signed by a\n secretary).","Cannot satisfy his request to send him\n letters with autographs of the Virginian\n signers of the Declaration of Independence\n as they have not been preserved or contain\n private communications; has read and enjoyed\n the sermons he sent; discusses the nature of\n church and state in post-Revolutionary\n Virginia; gratified by his [William B.\n Sprague's] sermon on intemperance and gives\n his [John Marshall's] views on the\n subject.","Discusses a land case concerning Mrs. [?]\n Clarke and Mr. [?] Swan, and Mr. [?]\n Pollard; have no further communications with\n Swan as \"he has no idea of...frank dealing\";\n Mr. [?] Fiske wrote that he can lend money\n for Mrs. [?] Carrington; please send down\n his [John Marshall's] ponies with Charles\n Smith or Mr. [?] Colston.","Has just received Mr. [?] Triplett's\n letter and is willing to allow him 20%\n commission on the money he may collect from\n the estate of Mr. [?] Davies [?]; discusses\n arrangements for drawing money on his [John\n Marshall's] account; asks him to pay costs\n incurred in the execution of the above\n matter; discusses election of \n General\n [Andrew] Jackson .","Makes arrangements to pay [ ] $1000 to\n Swan for a land purchase.","Has received his letter concerning news\n of the birth of \n \n Margaret's [(Lewis)\n Marshall]'s nephew; mentions health of\n his family, including the children's\n whooping cough; prices in the Alex[andri]a\n flour market and how the dry weather is\n affecting crops; writes of his own\n agricultural efforts, including the\n operation of a large roller for his corn\n fields; has been unable to send down the\n horses; will attend a sale at Westover on\n Mr. [?] Lewis's request; Mr. Lewis, Mr. [?]\n Coiston, and \n Mr.\n Cha[rle]s B. Smith are not able to\n take the horses to him [John Marshall] or to\n Aunt [?] Carrington.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","Has finished reading his centennial\n discourse on the first settlement of Salem;\n was touched by his portrayal of the story of\n the Indians; especially enjoyed the passages\n respecting the Lady Arabella Johnson; read\n with interest his sketch of the recently\n deceased \n [Robert]\n Trimble , brother Supreme Court\n Justice; congratulates him on the\n appointment of \n [Joseph]\n Hopkinson [to the Eastern District of\n Pennsylvania District Court Judgeship].","The case will not be finished till\n Saturday and he [John Marshall] will not be\n home till Tuesday; had a pleasant sail down\n the river to Norfolk; boards in a very\n agreeable house.","Including Pst of ALS. 1 page.","Requests him to purchase two more copies\n of \n [Joseph]\n Story's three volume [ \n Public and General\n Statutes passed by the Congress of the\n United States, 1789-1827 ] for the\n Supreme Court.","The sick [Supreme Court] judges have\n arrived; he continues his morning walks;\n they dined with the President and \n Mrs.\n [John Quincy] Adams on Friday;\n discusses their feelings on \n [Andrew]\n Jackson's election; Jackson is\n expected in the city in a fortnight;\n mentions Mrs. Jackson's death; discusses his\n [John Marshall's] dinner invitations; tell\n Mr. [?] Call [Cole?] the secretaries are\n sick, and \n [Henry]\n Clay caught a cold by attending the\n colonization society; discusses the upcoming\n inauguration.","Including Pst of ALS. 2 pages. Also\n including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","Encloses a letter to be sent to Mr. [?]\n Payne; imagines that Oby has carried out the\n clover seed from the cellar; received news\n from his son \n James\n [Keith Marshall] that she was not\n well; has written to his son in a feeble\n attempt to console him [Thomas Marshall on\n the death of his wife Margaret]; receive\n news from \n Jaquelin\n [Marshall] of his new son, Jaquelin\n Jr.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page. Including\n Pst of ALS. 2 pages.","Has had no news of her and is worried;\n discusses her delicate health; received news\n from his son \n \n Edward [Carrington Marshall] who\n grieves for his brother's [Thomas's] loss;\n received a serious and very religious letter\n from Thomas, who is much occupied with his\n children and superintends his son John's\n education.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","Answers his letter of 21 February; is\n pleased that he has turned to religion and\n reason in handling his grief in losing his\n wife; is glad that he has kept John at hand\n [instead of sending him to Princeton]; an\n epidemic has hit the University [of\n Virginia] at Charlottesville, and a son of\n General [?] Jones is dying of the fever;\n this city [Washington] is full of\n office-sickness; discusses the spoils\n system.","Has received his letter enclosing a copy\n of \n Judge\n [Joseph] Hopkinson's commission; will\n attend Virginia's constitutional convention\n as a delegate; explains his feelings\n regarding his election to the convention and\n to its being convened.","Has received his letter accompanying his\n anniversary address to the Suffolk bar and \n Mr. [John]\n Brazer's discourse at the interment of\n Dr.\n [Edward] Holyoke ; advises him against\n precipitous fulfillment of the publication\n requirements for his Dane Professorship [at\n Harvard]; his attention has been turned to\n the two great cases before the Supreme\n Court; place your thoughts of them on paper;\n Mr. [Smith]\n Thompson will look into the New York\n case; discusses the matters which will come\n before the Virginia constitutional,\n convention: property qualifications, senate\n apportioning, basis of representation,\n freehold suffrage.","After much hesitation, he must complain\n to him about his barking dog which has\n distressed his [John Marshall's] wife who is\n in very poor health; is extremely apologetic\n over causing any inconvenience.","Including Pst of ALS. 1 page.\n (Incomplete).","Has read his discourses pronounced as\n Dane Professor of Law at Harvard; is\n impressed with his teaching efforts: \"Our\n southern youths would stumble at the\n threshhold [of your most appalling course]..\n .You yankees have more perseverence\"; no\n hopes that he lives to read his lectures;\n still regrets being a member of Virginia's\n constitutional convention.","Will be unable to accept his invitation\n as he is leaving town on Saturday and will\n be busy until then.","Accepts his election as \n [Bushrod]\n Washington's successor' in some\n honorary position [President of the American\n Colonization Society?].","Has finished reading his 1809 Fourth of\n July oration and his December 1828 speech\n \"on the constitutionality of the Tariff and\n the true nature of state government;\" his\n speech in the Senate was well-argued: \"Is it\n possible that South Carolina can withstand\n so powerful an appeal to... her patriotism..\n .and her real interest?\"; is flattered by\n the notice he took of the author of the Life\n of Washington [John Marshall] in his\n notes.","Writes of his son \n Edward [C.\n Marshall] who is a proud new father;\n dined with the President [Andrew Jackson]\n and his [Andrew Jackson's] niece \n \n Mrs. [Andrew Jackson] [Emily]\n Donelson ; saw Tom Francis a week ago;\n Judges\n [William] Johnson and \n [John]\n McLean do not board with the other\n judges; \n Judge\n [Smith] Thompson is sick; complains\n about not receiving his rent from his\n tenants Mr. [?] Sprigg on the Potomac and\n another at Anderson's Bottoms.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","Discusses the dinner parties which he and\n his brother Justices have attended; the\n Secretary of State [Martin van Buren] gave\n one for the new bride of the President's\n [Andrew Jackson's] nephew [?]; he dined\n yesterday with the British Minister; the\n influenza is as prevalent as it was in\n Richmond; \n Judge\n [Gabriel] Duval left town because of a\n relapse of his son; \n James\n [Kieth Marshall, his son] wrote three\n days past about his brother \n \n Edward [Carrington Marshall] ;\n mentions Washington's Birthday Celebrations\n effect on her.","Including Pst of ALS. 3 pages. Including\n TCy of ALS. 2 pages.","Heard from his granddaughter that she\n [Mary Willis Ambler Marshall] became\n indisposed upon her return from\n Chickahominy; has received a letter from his\n son James who sold his horse for $l000[?]; \n Mr. [Joseph]\n Story , who has been laid up for a\n week under the doctor's hand has returned to\n court.","Including Pst of ALS. 2 pages.","Discusses his morning routine; dined\n yesterday with Mr. [?] Swann; \n Mr. [Joseph]\n Story is still not well enough to go\n out; talked about his nephew William [?]\n with Mr. [?] Mercer; Tom Francis took a\n stage for Kentucky; saw Mr. [?] Coleman,\n husband of his niece Lucy [?], who is a\n strong Jackson man; his [John Marshall's]\n nephew \n Tom\n [Marshall] son of \n Humphry\n [Marshall] is a strong Clay man, and\n will oppose Mr. Coleman in the next\n Congressional election; party plays havoc\n with the Kentucky part of his [John\n Marshall's] family.","Encloses papers which \n Mr.\n [Francis Scott] Key could not present\n to the Court in person.","Sends his respects to the Chief Justice;\n makes arrangements to see him.","Discusses arrangements to have his\n father's [Thomas Marshall] will proved in\n the Virginia General Court so they can rule\n on his [Revolutionary War?] claim for half\n pay.","Including Pst. of ALS. 2 pages.","Discusses land transactions with Capt.\n Slaughter and Major Thompsons; mentions Mr.\n [?] John Lewis's sale of his slaves to pay\n off Warner Lewis's debts; discusses their\n financial difficulties with Mr. [?] Nicholas\n and Mr. [?] Smith; encloses a promissory\n note of Edward C. and Mary Nelson Marshall\n on the Farmers Bank of Virginia for\n $5000.","Discusses his [James Hillhouse] 1808\n proposal of electing the president by\n drawing straws among Senators; he [John\n Marshall] was opposed to it in the past, but\n has seen too much strife and bitterness in\n party politics.","Including TCy of ALS. 2 pages.","Thanks him for sending a sermon on the\n late Massachusetts Chief Justice [Isaac\n Parker] and his [Joseph Story's] own sketch\n of Parker's Character; thanks him also for a\n box of fish; is sorry that brother \n Justice\n [John] McLean could not acquiesce in\n the \n [Craig V.] Missouri\n case ; is-chagrined that so many\n cases, including Soulard, Smith and Cathcart\n and Robertson, were left incomplete at their\n last setting; discusses \n Mr. [James]\n Madison's letter to the editor of the \n North American\n Review .","Letter of reference for Capt. [?] Baylis\n who served with him during the\n Revolution.","Heard from \n Colo.[nel] [?]\n Lambert that she was in her usual\n health; discusses the latest snowfall; dined\n with the minister of France and his wife,\n neither of whom could speak English; dined\n with Secretary of State Martin van Buren\n yesterday; saw Mr. [?] Robinson yesterday\n who gave news of his [John Marshall's]\n sister \n [Elizabeth]\n Colston and her family.","Including Pst of ALS. 2 pages.","Enjoyed calling on Mrs. [?] Sedgwick\n author of \n Hope\n Leslie today; the snow and ice has\n interrupted regular mail delivery from\n Richmond; they have lost their Marshal [?]\n Ringold, whose being ousted from office will\n distress his family.","On verso, \n J[ohn]\n Marshall to [Edward Carrington\n Marshall]. Asks him to find a valuable 1776\n English pamphlet on the Declaration of\n Independence which Mr. [?] Storrs lent him\n [John Marshall] and which he misplaced.","Sent him a barrel of hams on the schooner\n King to be\n deposited with Fisher and Pewer of Boston;\n asks him what the \"wise men in the East\"\n think of the Cabinet upheaval; discusses\n arrangements for new quarters in Washington\n as the Justices will no longer be lodging\n with Mr. [?] Brown; discusses the copy of\n Algernon Sianey [\"Letters.. .in Defence of\n Civil Liberty and against the Encroachments\n of Military Despotism\"?] which he [John\n Marshall] sent him [Joseph Story] earlier;\n discusses possibility of war and the reform\n in Great Britain; will set out on his\n circuit at the end of the week.","Arrived yesterday; thanks her for the\n cushion she made him to ease his journey;\n discusses the visit of a niece.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","Received his letter and hams; regrets\n that the Court is moving out of Mr. brown's;\n would like to lodge with him [John Marshall]\n and Judge Thompson; discusses the break-up\n of the cabinet, which was a surprise to him;\n thanks him for the Algernon Sidney pamphlet;\n informs him of the death of his [Joseph\n Story's] 10 year old daughter.","Received his letters of May 25 and 31 and\n adopted his opinions respecting admiralty\n jurisdiction; discusses arrangements for\n lodgings in Washington next winter and\n explains why he cannot do anything till he\n hears from \n Judge\n [Henry] Baldwin ; sympathizes with him\n over the loss of his child; tells of his\n similar experiences; he also wrote a poem in\n the occasion of his child's death, which he\n would have enclosed, but it was lost.","Thanks him for his letter of 9 September;\n has conversed with \n Judge\n [Joseph] Story about the Declaration\n of Independence; discusses his [John Quincy\n Adams] ideas about it and the constitutional\n principles of state sovereignty, secession,\n and nullification.","Discusses his medical examination by \n \n Doctor [Philip Syng] Physick ; will\n probably not see her again till he rides the\n circuit court 22 November; the gentlemen of\n the city, especially those of the bar, are\n painfully solicitous to show their respect;\n Nr.[?] Peters and Dr. [?] Gillespie press\n him to stay with them; gives directions for\n his crops to be tended to.","Including Pst of ALS. 2 pages.","The rains of the last several days have\n prevented \n Dr.\n [Philip Syng] Physick from operating;\n discusses preparations for his medical\n treatment; missed Cary Ambler's visit\n because he was sitting for a portrait;\n Edward Ambler is in town; received a letter\n from brother \n [Joseph]\n Story ; mentions his diet.","Including Pst of ALS. 2 pages.","Discusses his medical treatment and \n \n Doctor [Philip Syng] Physick ; \n \n Brother [Justice Henry] Baldwin is\n here; discusses the arrangements for the\n Justices' lodgings in Washington, either at\n Mrs. [?] Peyton's or Mr. [?] Peters';\n explains why he did not think he would serve\n on the court at its next session; discusses\n his health and ailments of the past\n summer.","Mr. [?] Giles will give news of his\n health; describes his ailment (\"stones in\n the bladder\") and the Doctor's examination;\n his operation by \n \n Doctor [Philip Syng] Physick has been\n delayed because of the weather; describes\n the Doctor and his [John Marshall's]\n accommodations; tell Major [?] Ambler that\n his brothers Edward and Cary are in\n town.","Heard of and congratulates him on\n successful operation; regards his health as\n \"a matter of the highest national\n concernment...\"","On verso, [John Marshall, to Edward\n Everett], incomplete. Is flattered by his\n kina token; describes his tedious operation;\n thanks him for his letter.","Learned from Mr. [?] Peters that he was\n seriously indisposed; intends to leave for\n Richmond next week; discusses difficulties\n in their living arrangements; they will\n probably quarter with [?] Ringold; \n Mr.\n [William] Johnson will live by\n himself, and \n [John]\n McLean will preserve his former\n position; \n Brother\n [Henry] Baldwin presides over the\n circuit court in session now in\n Philadelphia; describes his [John\n Marshall's] operation and medicine.","Discusses the latest legal difficulties\n involving the Fairfax lands; his wife [Mary\n Willis (Ambler) Marshall] lies at death's\n door.","Including TCy of ALS. 3 pages.","Discusses a pamphlet to which he [Henry\n Lee] alluded in his letter; mentions \n [Thomas]\n Jefferson's \"unjustifiable aspersions\"\n on his [John Marshall's] conduct and\n principles; writes of his own and \n [George]\n Logon's experiences with the\n Revolutionary government of France; mentions\n the journal he kept in Paris.","Certificate of the Clerk of the Circuit\n Court of Fauquier County dated 16 March\n 1961.","Makes arrangements for the sale of \n \n Edward's [Carrington Marshall's] bank\n shares; her brother Tom [Thomas Marshall]\n tears that he will not win his election\n because he raises the clerk's fees.","He was gratified by his complimentary\n comments on the speech he [Richard Henry\n Wilde] sent him [John Marshall]; sends him\n Mr. [?] Ingham's report on the relative\n value of gold and silver and Mr. [?] White's\n reports on coins; mentions Mr. [?] Jacob's\n work on the subject.","Thanks him for sending him the first\n volume of the \n American Library of\n Useful Knowledge ; the Librarian of\n Congress has asked him [John Marshall] to\n help spend $5000 on law books for the\n library, and he [John Marshall] asks him\n [Joseph Story] to suggest titles; discusses \n [Charles]\n Mercer and the Bank Question and\n internal improvements in Virginia; the party\n guide \n The\n Enquirer is unable to make \n Mr. [John]\n Barbour \"pull in the traces;\"\n discusses national politics and the threat\n of nullification; comments upon the Cholera\n epidemics in the seaports of New York and\n Boston.","Has received and read his essay \n A Congress of\n Nations for the Amicable Adjustments of\n National Differences; Feels that its\n argument is well arranged and supported by\n applicable biblical quotations, but is also\n impracticable.","Is having difficulties selling his stock\n for him; there is a severe outbreak of\n cholera in Richmond; discusses the disease;\n is relieved to hear that he is restored to\n health and that John Harvie is getting\n better; discusses the disabling of his\n horse.","Thanks him for his help in selecting\n titles for the congressional law library;\n discusses his choice of books; is gratified\n that his course on constitutional law [at\n Harvard] nears completion; shares his gloomy\n prospects of the country; \"The case of the\n south seems to me to be desperate.. .The\n union has been prolonged thus far by\n miracles. I fear they cannot continue.\"","Discusses how he sold his [James Keith\n Marshall's] and \n \n Edward's [Carrington\n Marshall's] stock; hopes his\n merchandising speculation will be\n successful; congratulates him on the birth\n of his daughter; has just returned from Mr.\n White's son's funeral, who died of cholera;\n discusses the disease.","Thanks him for the dedication of his new\n book; congratulates him upon its completion;\n the [Virginia] legislature is in session;\n discusses Andrew Jackson's response to\n nullification and his party's reaction to\n it; writes of Virginia's relationship to\n South Carolina and the possibility of their\n joining in a southern confederacy; thanks\n him for a copy of \n Mr.\n [Daniel] Webster's speech; mentions \n \n Brother Justice [Henry]\n Baldwin's sickness.","Encloses a power of attorney authorizing him\n to draw what is coming to him [Thomas A.\n Marshall] on account of grandfather's [Col.\n Thomas Marshall] halt pay; discusses Congress\n and the Nullification crisis; mentions \n Judge [Henry]\n Baldwin's misfortune and that \n Judge\n [Smith] Thompson is in town.","Including ADS. 2 pages. 3 January 1833.\n Power of attorney granting John Marshall the\n right to draw the money due Thomas A. Marshall\n as heir to Colonel Thomas Marshall,\n Revolutionary War veteran entitled to the half\n pay pension; signed by Justice of the Peace\n D.A. Hall.","Returns his portfolio of drawings of\n Washington and pictures of Revolutionary\n Boston; recalls traveling to Richmond with him\n once.","Informs him that his son was accepted to\n West Point; does not think the Tariff bill or\n the bill concerning South Carolina's\n legislature will pass Congress.","Received his letter of 27 April; discusses \n Mr. [Edmund]\n Pendleton ; mentions a copy of a letter\n from Mr. Carr in the possession of Col. John\n Nichols; Augustine Davis may have published it;\n his [Charles Carter's] brother has written to\n Mr. [?] Sujt in regards to it; discusses \n Mr. [Edmund]\n Pendleton , \n [Thomas]\n Jefferson , and the XYZ dispatch.","Discusses Lt. Randolph's case, Mr. Watkin's\n case, the power of arrest, and the Judiciary\n Act; rejoices at the abridgement of his \n Commentaries for\n the public; discusses its place in colleges and\n universities.","Discusses the national fervor in France\n based upon the martial glory of Napoleon and\n demonstrated by the statue at the top of the\n column of Austerlitz in the \n Place de\n Vendome ; compares Napoleon's popularity\n with the people to that of George Washington's,\n Hannibal's, and Ceasar's; all were \"victims of\n the infernal machine\" [party politics];\n discusses national politics and \n [Martin] Van\n Buren .","Discusses the addition \n James [K.\n Marshall] is making to the house at Leeds\n for his father [John Marshall]; mentions \n Jaquelin's\n [Marshall] experiences of housing slaves\n in basements at Prospect Hill; mentions the\n weather and growth of crops and the health of\n his [Thomas Marshall's] daughter Mary; \n \n Aunt [Elizabeth (Marshall)] Colston is in\n poor health and will probably not visit\n Richmond this Winter; his [Thomas Marshall's]\n son John's plans have changed and he has bought\n Mr. [?] Smith's tract of land; tell Mr. [?]\n Tiffin that the girls have never received the\n box of articles he sent to Mr. [?] Cawood by\n steamboat.","Including TCy of ALS. 2 pages.","Has just received a letter from Mr. [?]\n Ringold who has moved from Washington and can\n not accommodate them next winter; \"the\n political world.., is surely moved \n topsy turvy ;\"\n mentions southern states insistence on state\n sovereignty; asks him about \n \n Brother [Justice John?] McClain\n [McLean's?] opinion in Tennessee.","Discusses the 1793 contract signed with\n Denny Fairfax for the Manor of Leeds and the\n South Branch Manor; suggests strategies to\n prove their legal title to the land.","Discusses the purchase of land and the\n legalities it would entail; mentions the\n possibility of mortgaging the Mont Blanc estate\n for a loan.","His present, a copy of his \n Commentaries [on\n the Constitution] and Allison's Sermons, has\n arrived on the \n Lucy and\n Abigail ; has sent him copies of his\n [John Marshall's] \n Life of\n Washington to be delivered to \n [Daniel]\n Webster , \n [John Quincy]\n Adams ; the Massachusetts Historical\n Society, the Boston Athanaeum (which\n complimented him by having his portrait painted\n for their gallery), and Mrs. [?] Ledyard;\n discusses publication of his [Joseph Story's] \n Commentaries ,\n which will not be popular in the South;\n discusses \n [Henry]\n Clay's Tariff bill.","Discusses sale of his [James K. Marshall's]\n land; inform \n Edward\n [Carrington Marshall] that he [John\n Marshall] is pleased with the terms on which he\n has not rented Mont Blanc; will not leave for\n the country till July when he will visit\n [Fauquier White Sulphur] Springs; the May wheat\n has been injured by frost.","Questions him about the defeat of \n [John]\n Hardin at the battle of the St. Joseph\n reported in his [John Marshall's] \n Life of\n Washington ; asks him to check with \n Mr. [Jared]\n Sparks if it was really fought on Paint\n Creek; discusses the elections of the Virginia\n legislature; mentions Martin van Buren.","Describes how George Washington convinced\n him to run for Congress in 1798.","Would have written upon his return from\n Washington, but was seriously injured in the\n stage; cannot find and send him a letter in\n George Washington's hand as requested; does\n enclose a military appointment of 1799 with\n Washington's signature.","Hopes his injury will not be permanent;\n fears the loss to the nation if he resigns; has\n \"cleared the decks for the great legal\n conflict.\"","Discusses arrangements regarding the\n acquisition of Mrs. [?] Kennon's [?]\n negroes.","Discusses Mr. [?] Warden's and Mr.\n Washington's and Brooke's suits which he\n [Charles Lee] agreed to look into for him [John\n Marshall].","A friend from the West has pointed out an\n error in his [John Marshall's] manuscript which\n he would like to correct as follows: \"v.2 p.207\n 1.27 at \"Chilicothe\".. .\"not Chilicothe on the\n Scioto in Ohio, but ... an old Indian village\n then standing about seventy-five miles rather\n East of North from Cincinnati...","Has had some difficulty weighing and selling\n his Parkinson breed of hogs because they were\n too large and their meat is not sweet enough;\n discusses purchases made for him, Mary, Fanny\n Burwell, and Maria Willis according to his\n directions; is surprised at the magnitude of\n his [Thomas Marshall's] debts; lectures on\n paying them off.","Informs him that his rent for the Campbell\n [?] land belonging to his [John Marshall's]\n father's estate is due.","Accepts the President's invitation to dinner\n next Thursday at four.","Discusses the last letter which he [John\n Randolph Roanoke] sent to him [John\n Marshall].","[Both are sisters of John Marshall's wife, Mary\n Willis (Ambler) Marshall.]. Discusses her and her\n husband's, [Colonel Edward Carrington], visit with\n the Washington family at Mount Vernon and the\n impending delivery of Mrs. L. Custis Lewis's first\n child; describes their visit to the new national\n capitol on the Potomac; writes of their return to\n Mount Vernon and of their diversions there, which\n include hunting deer and taking care of the new\n baby, or \"the pretty little stranger\"; describes a\n chambermaid and other servants; comments upon\n domestic fashions and describes the furnishings of\n the mansion, which concludes with a description of\n the estate with its greenhouse and gardens, and of\n their host's [George Washington] treatment of his\n many visitors.","Including TCy of ALS. 6 pages.","[Mary Willis (Ambler) Marshall, Richmond,\n Virginia]. Hopes that she will send for her in\n April, although her Aunt [Elizabeth (Marshall)\n Colston] says that it is unlikely; Uncle [Rawleigh\n Colston] is upset at all the letters she is\n sending, and refuses to pay postage on them;\n wanted to buy muslin in Martinsburg to make her a\n handkerchief and a cap for sister [?]; discusses\n her French lessons with her tutor, Mr. LeRoy, and\n incidents of his exasperation with Tom [Thomas M.\n Colston], Tom \n [Thomas]\n Marshall [a cousin], and Rawleigh [a cousin,\n Raleigh T. Colston], Cousin \n Edward\n [Colston] cruelly takes delight in telling\n her that she will not be able to go home until\n fall, and \"Uncle says he does not think you love\n me enough to ... send for me...\"","Including TCy of ALS. 2 pages.","Has already conveyed his [James Markham\n Marshall's] undiscarded half of land at the forks\n of the Licking [Fauquier County?]; no longer has\n an interest in it, but will convey the novelty to\n him [Martin P. Marshall] at any time; \"lament[s]\n extremely the misunderstanding between yourself\n and Tom...\"; Lucy Marshall is in Fauquier\n [County].","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","Was lucky he came down on Tuesday, For he found\n his daughter, Nancy, ill, which has caused them to\n postpone their return to Weyanoke, [Virginia]; has\n cone a little transferring for Father; has been\n playing chess with Mr. [?] James? Taylor of\n Norfolk; instructs Agnes [his daughter] to attend\n to her studies in Richmond; hopes her [Mary Willis\n (Ambler) Marshall] trip to Chickahominy did not\n fatigue her.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","Mentions changes made in the college government\n at Harvard College; complains of college life -\n \"probably no life is so uninteresting to others as\n that of a merely literary man. An indolent\n collegian especially has nothing to say for\n himself...\"; mentions his classes: Electricity,\n Astronomy, and Moral Philosophy; describes his\n \"chums,\" [?] Turner, [?J Bonaparte, a nephew of\n the Emperor, [?] Cheves, son of Langdon Cheves,\n [?] Bruce, of Halifax County, and his cousin [?]\n Birchett; discusses dining arrangements at\n Harvard: \"We have a large table, confined to\n southerners, and what are called gentlemen\n Yankees\"; looks forward with great anxiety to\n graduating in ten months.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","Most of her bank stock is to be distributed to\n her children and their children, although she\n leaves five bank shares for her \"faithful friend\n and house keeper Mrs. Francis Martyr\" and her\n daughter Anne and ten dollars a year in perpetuity\n to the school for orphan children established by\n the Ladies of Richmond.","Including TCy of AD. 1 page.","Discusses the publication of the last Census\n and its effects on Congressional apportionment;\n discusses railroads and canals; writes of\n abolition in Loudoun and Fauquier Counties,\n [Virginia].","Informs her of her brother [Thomas Marshall's]\n accident in Baltimore and of his impending death;\n Father [John Marshall] has rallied from his severe\n cold, but does not continue to improve; he has\n taken cold again, is feeble, and has no appetite;\n he apprehends the worst.","Describes the weather; Mrs. [?] Mayo has the\n gout; Mary Archer and family are well; Margaret\n and Agnes Douthat are with her; Robert Pickett\n said nothing about paying back the loan; discusses\n his daughters' lessons under Mr. [?] Daley; gives\n directions for the farm; writes of \n General\n [Jaquelin] Harvie ; discusses arrangements\n for her Christmas trip and for her slaves; asks\n about his daughters Claudia and Maria Willis.","Including TCy of ALS. 2 pages. Including Pst of\n ALS. 2 pages.","Writes a favorable recommendation for Dr. J. W.\n Leach who has resided in Fauquier County a few\n years and practiced medicine \"with success and\n usefulness,\" but who desires to move to the city\n to \"improve his fortunes and educate his\n children.\"","Including ANS from \n D[aniel]\n W[ebster] , n.p., n.d. to Mr. Bell, n.p.,\n recommending A.J. Marshall \"son [nephew] of the\n late \n Ch[ief]\n Jus[tice] \u0026 a very reputable man.\"","Handwritten copy [by Alice Colston?]; tells him\n to draw on his [Edward Colston's] money at the\n Valley Bank. of Winchester and send $10 to Raleigh\n Edward at Lexington and the rest to \n W[illiam]\n Leigh .","Including Cy of ADS, (in same hand); 12 October\n 1840, Elizabeth Colston's will; bequeaths her\n slaves and other worldly possessions to her\n children and grandchildren. 4 pages.","Includes an engraving of a spread-eagled\n American bald eagle bearing a lyre with the motto\n \"Nunc Sidera Ducit\" surrounded by thirteen stars;\n also bears the seal of the Department of State;\n the passport stamps show that Harvie visited\n France, Belgium, Austria, Switzerland, Holland ,\n Italy, Spain, Algeria, Rome, Naples, and Germany\n from May 1858 to March 1859.","Describes railroad travel in Virginia;\n discusses his visit in Richmond; mentions Col. [?]\n Mason's and \n G[overn]or\n [John B.] Floyd's efforts at arousing\n sentiment for immediate secession; mentions prices\n of railroad tickets.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page. Including Pst of\n ALS. 2 pages.","Including PDS. 1 page. Acceptance and oath of\n Frank G. Rutfin signed in Richmond before James\n Ellett, Notary Public, on 19 August 1861.","Thanks her for writing to him in Miss [?]\n Harvie's behalf and for granting him an extension;\n the publishers will finish the reproducing within\n three weeks at which time he will return the\n miniture [sic] to her aunt; distressed to hear of\n Anne Harvie's death.","Including Pst of ALS. 1 page. Incomplete.","Including Pst of ADS. 2 pages. 30 November\n 1771. Another indenture signed by Fairfax leasing\n land in the Manor of Leeds to William Seth.","Does not view the consequences of their success\n in the election [of 1800] in as favorable a light\n as he [John Page] does; speculates on what would\n have been the result of the election had there\n been no contest between the \"two Gentlemen who\n stood highest\" [Jefferson and Burr], and if \n [Charles\n Cotesworter] Pin[c]key or \n [John] Adams had\n opposed Jefferson; speculates on the \"presumption\"\n of the Federalist view that should \"no election...\n take place, Mr. Adams is, under the Constitution,\n to continue in office until a successor be\n appointed; \n that is until the next\n election of course \"; says appointments of\n John Marshall as Chief Justice, seventeen new\n judges, and [?] Bayard \"the most unacceptable man\n that could be sent to the French republic,\"\n nominated as minister plenipotentiary -- all\n extend the influence of the Federalists and throw\n an obstacle in the way of Jefferson's\n administration; adds a few lines typical of what\n he sees as Federalist sentiment; and writes of\n their friendship.","Since he [John Randolph] is not long for this\n world, is anxious to settle his affairs; \"should\n you decide upon a settlement south of \n \n Philad[elphi]a (which God forbid) I am\n desirous that you should fix yourself as soon as\n possible on the plantation below the mouth of\n little Roanoke...[Bizarre Plantation?];\" his [John\n Randolph's] infirmity has prevented him from\n giving the estate the requisite attention, and it\n is much encumbered with debt; discusses his\n failing health: \"there is something radically a\n miss in the system. The machine cannot last much\n longer.\"","Thanks him for compliance with his request\n \"thru our mutual friend Mr. John Marshall\"; will\n write soon; sends paper for Capt. Brown.","Comments on events in Washington which instill\n \"deep regret and surprize\"; mentions the election\n in Kentucky; says the antimasonic excitement will\n likely be \"troublesome\" but he will not get\n involved in it; has not heard from Mr. [?] Hammond\n for a long time but does not distrust him but\n disagrees over the issue of the representation of\n Ohio in the Baltimore Convention; glad to hear of\n his [James F. Conover] professional prospects.","Discusses the case of [?] Randolph being heard\n by \n \n U.S. District Court Judge [Philip P.]\n Barbour .","Chief\n Justice [John] Marshall died in Philadelphia\n last Monday, perfectly in his senses to the last;\n the news reached here only this morning, and his\n remains at 4 p.m.; describes the funeral\n procession.","Encloses the diploma of the historical\n Institute of France which just elected John\n Marshall a member on his [Henry Lee's]\n recommendation; describes Marshall's election to\n that society.","Is happy about her recovery; quotes\n Shakespeare; describes his own health; writes of\n his political campaigning in King and Queen, King\n William, and Hanover counties, [Virginia];\n describes her old neighborhood and farm, now\n occupied by Fleetwood Academy; discusses George\n Haskins situation, mentioning his lack of slaves;\n gossips about affairs in King and Queen County;\n discusses the unusual weather; tells an Irish\n joke; discusses \n [Henry]\n Clay's tariff.","One was a wax portrait in basso-relievo donated by\n Horace Edwin Hayden to the Virginia Historical\n Society in 1881; another was the bronze monument by\n W.W. Story which stands on the terrace of the U. S.\n Capitol; the members of the Marshall family who\n attended the dedication of this statue are listed in\n a third article.","Poem written on the request of a lady to inscribe\n his name in her autograph book.","Including TCy of AL. 1 page.","Poem honors the splendid singing voice of Miss\n Eliza Lambert, the sister of Richmond's Mayor William\n Lambert.","Including TCy of AL. 1 page.","Lines on the occasion of\n the raising of the bronze statue of Chief Justice\n Marshall, at Richmond in 1869(?) - while Brig. Gen'l\n Terry was in command of 'District No. 1' -\n which included the state of Virginia.","Discusses tr. Physick's operation on John\n Marshall.","Lists his pall-bearers: Henry St. George Tucker,\n John B. Clapton, \n Benj[amin] W [?]\n Leigh , \n Tho[ma]s\n Rutherford , \n Cha[rle]s\n Copland , \n Rob[er]t\n Popllard , Chapman Johnson, Robert Stanard, [?]\n Scott, and [?] D. Wren[?]; also lists the Marshalls: \n Col. Geo[rge]\n M. Carrington , \n [?] General\n [William] Lambert , General [?] Peyton, and\n Col. Armistead.","Mentions the results of an autopsy on Marshall's\n body after his death in 1835.","Published by the Reformed Church Publication Board\n in Philadelphia. The Centennial Address delivered\n before the Franklin and Marshall College of\n Lancaster, Pennsylvania on 14 June 1887.","Subsequently published by McGraw-Hill in a 1960\n book, \n Fountain of\n Freedom .","The smaller one was copied from French painter\n Levret Saint Memin's 1801 crayon portrait of\n Marshall. The larger lithograph was copied from\n Chester Harding's 1830 painting.","Including a copy of and etching of John Marshall's\n house in Richmond.","The original of the one of Marshall facing right\n was made in Richmond about 1825 by a French artist.\n It was hung at Oak Hill, was inherited by his eldest\n son Thomas Marshall, and is privately owned.","Each was copied from the 1801 portrait of Marshall\n painted by Saint Memin. The large matted one was\n engraved by J. H. E. Whitney.","Two obviously derived from Henry Inman's 1831\n portrait; one engraved by J. A. O'Neil shows Marshall\n in 1793 as the Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of\n Virginia Freemasons; the last includes engravings of\n portraits of other U.S. Chief Justices: John Jay,\n Oliver Ellsworth, John Rutledge, R. B. Taney, M. R.\n Waite, Salmon P. Chase, and Melville W. Fuller.","Including a short history of Federal Hardware and\n Implement Mutual Insurance companies.","It consists of a 26 February 1884 memorial to the\n General Assembly of Virginia, a 25 February letter to\n the Editor of \n The State , and\n handwritten commentary. Ruffin states the reasons why\n he is opposed to passage of the Richmond Dock and Dry\n dock bill.","Books owned by John Marshall have been removed from this\n collection. For a more detailed location of these books\n please see the Lion Catalog as well as the Association\n Collection in the Manuscripts and Rare Books Department,\n Swem Library, College of William and Mary.","Newspapers have been transferred from this collection.\n See the Manuscripts and Rare Books Department, Swem\n Library, College of William and Mary.","Before publishing quotations or excerpts from any\n materials, permission must be obtained from the Curator of\n Manuscripts and Rare Books, and the holder of the\n copyright, if not Swem Library.","Original letters and copies of\n letters from other repositories, chiefly 1788-1835, of John\n Marshall's correspondence with his wife, Mary Willis (Ambler)\n Marshall, and other family members.","Marshall Family,","Marshall family.","John Marshall,","Mary Willis Ambler Marshall,","James Monroe,","Joseph Story.","Johnson, Herbert A., Charles T.\n Cullen, Nancy G. Harris, Charles F. 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Series 1\n contains correspondence and papers of John Marshall, family\n members and other individuals; Series 2 contains printed\n material, poems and charts; Series 3 contains prints,\n engravings, and artifacts; and Series 4 contains manuscript\n volumes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003carrangement\u003e\n \u003chead\u003eArrangement\u003c/head\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eThis collection is primarily arranged chronologically by\n date.\u003c/p\u003e\n \u003c/arrangement\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis collection is primarily arranged chronologically by\n date.\u003c/p\u003e"],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement","Organization","Arrangement"],"arrangement_tesim":["Organization This collection is organized into 4 series. Series 1\n contains correspondence and papers of John Marshall, family\n members and other individuals; Series 2 contains printed\n material, poems and charts; Series 3 contains prints,\n engravings, and artifacts; and Series 4 contains manuscript\n volumes.","This collection is organized into 4 series. Series 1\n contains correspondence and papers of John Marshall, family\n members and other individuals; Series 2 contains printed\n material, poems and charts; Series 3 contains prints,\n engravings, and artifacts; and Series 4 contains manuscript\n volumes.","Arrangement This collection is primarily arranged chronologically by\n date.","This collection is primarily arranged chronologically by\n date."],"bibliography_html_tesm":["\u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003cpersname role=\"author\"\u003eJohnson, Herbert A., Charles T.\n Cullen, Nancy G. Harris, Charles F. Hobson, and others\n eds.\u003c/persname\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Papers of John\n Marshall.\u003c/title\u003e10 vols. to date. \n \u003cimprint\u003eChapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, \n \u003cdate type=\"publication\" era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1974- .\u003c/date\u003e\u003c/imprint\u003eCall\n Number: E302 .M365 v.1 - v.10 \n \u003c/bibref\u003e","\u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003cpersname role=\"author\"\u003eMason, Frances Norton.\u003c/persname\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eMy Dearest Polly; Letters of Chief\n Justice John Marshall to His Wife, With Their Background,\n Political and Domestic, 1779-1831.\u003c/title\u003e\n\u003cimprint\u003eRichmond: Garrett \u0026amp; Massie, \n \u003cdate type=\"publication\" era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1961.\u003c/date\u003e\u003c/imprint\u003eCall Number:\n E302.6 .M4 M33 \n \u003c/bibref\u003e","\u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003cpersname role=\"author\"\u003eOliver, Andrew\u003c/persname\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Portraits of John\n Marshall.\u003c/title\u003e\n\u003cimprint\u003eCharlottesville: Institute of Early American\n History and Culture, University Press of Virginia, \n \u003cdate type=\"publication\" era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1977.\u003c/date\u003e\u003c/imprint\u003eCall Number:\n E302.6 .M4 O44 \n \u003c/bibref\u003e","\u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003cpersname role=\"author\"\u003eRhodes, Irwin S.\u003c/persname\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Papers of John Marshall, A\n Descriptive Calendar.\u003c/title\u003e2 vols. \n \u003cimprint\u003eNorman: University of Oklahoma Press, \n \u003cdate type=\"publication\" era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e[1969].\u003c/date\u003e\u003c/imprint\u003eCall\n Number: KF213 .M3 R5 V.1 - V.2 \n \u003c/bibref\u003e"],"bibliography_heading_ssm":["Bibliography"],"bibliography_tesim":["Johnson, Herbert A., Charles T.\n Cullen, Nancy G. Harris, Charles F. Hobson, and others\n eds. The Papers of John\n Marshall. 10 vols. to date. \n Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, \n 1974- . Call\n Number: E302 .M365 v.1 - v.10 \n ","Mason, Frances Norton. My Dearest Polly; Letters of Chief\n Justice John Marshall to His Wife, With Their Background,\n Political and Domestic, 1779-1831. Richmond: Garrett \u0026 Massie, \n 1961. Call Number:\n E302.6 .M4 M33 \n ","Oliver, Andrew The Portraits of John\n Marshall. Charlottesville: Institute of Early American\n History and Culture, University Press of Virginia, \n 1977. Call Number:\n E302.6 .M4 O44 \n ","Rhodes, Irwin S. The Papers of John Marshall, A\n Descriptive Calendar. 2 vols. \n Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, \n [1969]. Call\n Number: KF213 .M3 R5 V.1 - V.2 \n "],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eJohn Marshall (1755-1835) was born near Germantown, Prince\n William (currently Fauquier) County, Virginia on 24 September\n 1755 to parents Thomas Marshall and Mary Randolph Keith. From\n 1775-1781, Marshall served in the Continental Army and fought\n in the Revolutionary War. During the spring and summer of\n 1780, Marshall attended classes at the College of William and\n Mary and received his license to practice law. After the war,\n he moved to Richmond, Virginia and began his practice.\n Marshall married Mary Willis Ambler in 1783. The couple had\n ten children, six of whom survived to adulthood. He was\n elected as a delegate to the Virginia House of Delegates in\n 1780 and 1782-1788. Later, he was appointed by President John\n Adams to a special commission to France from 1797-1798. The\n commission, which brought about the famous XYZ affair, failed\n to settle existing differences between France and the U.S.\n From 1799-1800, Marshall served as a Federalist representative\n in the 6th United States Congress. He did not serve out his\n term however, as he was appointed by Adams to serve as U.S.\n Secretary of State from 1800-1801. Later, Marshall received\n yet another appointment from Adams this time to the bench as\n the fourth chief justice of the Supreme Court. He was\n confirmed by the Senate on 27 January 1801 and served until\n his death on 6 July 1835. In addition to hearing 1,215 cases\n and authoring 514 opinions, Marshall also wrote, \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Life of George Washington\u003c/title\u003e,\n a book in 5 volumes. Marshall was buried in New Burying\n Ground, Richmond, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["John Marshall (1755-1835) was born near Germantown, Prince\n William (currently Fauquier) County, Virginia on 24 September\n 1755 to parents Thomas Marshall and Mary Randolph Keith. From\n 1775-1781, Marshall served in the Continental Army and fought\n in the Revolutionary War. During the spring and summer of\n 1780, Marshall attended classes at the College of William and\n Mary and received his license to practice law. After the war,\n he moved to Richmond, Virginia and began his practice.\n Marshall married Mary Willis Ambler in 1783. The couple had\n ten children, six of whom survived to adulthood. He was\n elected as a delegate to the Virginia House of Delegates in\n 1780 and 1782-1788. Later, he was appointed by President John\n Adams to a special commission to France from 1797-1798. The\n commission, which brought about the famous XYZ affair, failed\n to settle existing differences between France and the U.S.\n From 1799-1800, Marshall served as a Federalist representative\n in the 6th United States Congress. He did not serve out his\n term however, as he was appointed by Adams to serve as U.S.\n Secretary of State from 1800-1801. Later, Marshall received\n yet another appointment from Adams this time to the bench as\n the fourth chief justice of the Supreme Court. He was\n confirmed by the Senate on 27 January 1801 and served until\n his death on 6 July 1835. In addition to hearing 1,215 cases\n and authoring 514 opinions, Marshall also wrote, \n The Life of George Washington ,\n a book in 5 volumes. 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Archives,\n Washington, D.C.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the RG 59, \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eNational Archives,\n Washington, D.C.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the RG 59, \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eNational Archives,\n Washington, D.C.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is privately owned.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the Collection of\n the Association for the Preservation of\n Virginia Antiquities, on deposit at \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eVirginia Historical Society,\n Richmond, Virginia.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal in the Washington Papers, \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eLibrary of Congress,\n Washington, D.C.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is privately owned.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal in the Washington Papers, \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eLibrary of Congress,\n Washington, D.C.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the Washington\n Papers, \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eLibrary of Congress,\n Washington, D.C.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the Washington\n Papers, \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eLibrary of Congress,\n Washington, D.C.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eJohn Marshall House,\n Richmond, Virginia.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eWashington University, St.\n Louis, Missouri.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLocation of original is unknown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the Collection\n of the Association for the Preservation\n of Virginia Antiquities, on deposit at\n the \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eVirginia Historical\n Society, Richmond,\n Virginia.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the Pinckney\n Family Papers, \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eLibrary of Congress,\n Washington, D.C.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the Hampton L.\n Carson Collection, \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eFree Library of\n Philadelphia, Philadelphia,\n Pennsylvania.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the William M.\n Elkins Collection, \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eFree Library of\n Philadelphia, Philadelphia,\n Pennsylvania.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the Pinkney\n Family Papers, \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eLibrary of Congress,\n Washington D.C.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eFree Library of\n Philadelphia, Philadelphia,\n Pennsylvania.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eFree Library of\n Philadelphia, Philadelphia,\n Pennsylvania.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the Jefferson\n Papers, \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eLibrary of Congress,\n Washington D.C.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrinted in Dann, \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eMason\n Memoirs\u003c/title\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eJohn Marshall House,\n Virginia State Library, Richmond,\n Virginia.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eWashington University, St.\n Louis, Missouri.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eUniversity of Virginia,\n Charlottesville, Virginia.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is privately owned.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eUniversity of Virginia,\n Charlottesville, Virginia.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the Pinckney\n Papers, \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eLibrary of Congress,\n Washington, D.C.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eFree Library of\n Philadelphia, Philadelphia,\n Pennsylvania.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the Pinckney\n Papers, \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eLibrary of Congress,\n Washington, D.C.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eMassachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eMassachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the Monroe Papers,\n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eLibrary of Congress,\n Washington, D.C.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLocation of original is unknown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eUniversity of Virginia,\n Charlottesville, Virginia.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLocation of original is unknown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the Hampton L.\n Carson Collection, \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eFree Library of\n Philadelphia, Philadelphia,\n Pennsylvania.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the RG 59, \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eNational Archives,\n Washington, D.C.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the Hampton L.\n Carson Collection, \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eFree Library of\n Philadelphia, Philadelphia,\n Pennsylvania.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eMassachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eMassachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eLibrary of Congress,\n Washington, D.C.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eMassachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eLibrary of Congress,\n Washington, D.C.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eJohn Marshall House,\n Richmond, Virginia.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eMassachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eMassachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eMassachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eLibrary of Congress,\n Washington, D.C.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the Hampton L.\n Carson Collection, \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eFree Library of\n Philadelphia, Philadelphia,\n Pennsylvania.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eMassachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eMassachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eLibrary of Congress,\n Washington, D.C.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the University of\n Virginia on deposit at \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eJohn Marshall House,\n Richmond, Virginia.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the Virginia State\n Library, on deposit \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eJohn Marshall House,\n Richmond, Virginia.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the Hampton L.\n Carson Collection, \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eFree Library of\n Philadelphia, Philadelphia,\n Pennsylvania.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eLibrary of Congress,\n Washington, D.C.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eWashington University, St.\n Louis, Missouri.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eLibrary of Congress,\n Washington, D.C.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eLibrary of Congress,\n Washington, D.C.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLocation of original is unknown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eMassachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eRush Rhees Library,\n University of Rochester, Rochester,\n New York.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eLibrary of Congress,\n Washington, D.C.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eWashington University,\n St. Louis, Missouri.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eMassachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLocation of original is unknown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eJohn Marshall House,\n Richmond, Virginia.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eMassachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eJohn Marshall House,\n Richmond, Virginia.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eMassachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLocation of original is unknown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLocation of original is unknown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eWilliam L. Clements\n Library, Ann Arbor,\n Michigan.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eUniversity of\n Virginia?\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eMassachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the Hampton L.\n Carson Collection, \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eFree Library of\n Philadelphia, Philadelphia,\n Pennsylvania.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eJohn Marshall House,\n Richmond, Virginia.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eJohn 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located in the \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eMassachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eNational Archives,\n Washington, D.C.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eUniversity of Virginia,\n Charlottesville,\n Virginia.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eMassachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eJohn Marshall House,\n Richmond, Virginia.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the \n 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Massachusetts.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eJohn Marshall House,\n Richmond, Virginia.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eJohn Marshall House,\n Richmond, Virginia.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eMassachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eIllinois State Historical\n Library, Springfield,\n Illinois.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the Marshall\n Papers, \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eLibrary of Congress,\n 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Massachusetts.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eJohn Marshall House,\n Virginia State Library.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eMassachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eHarvard University,\n Cambridge, Massachusetts.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLocation of original is unknown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eVirginia State Library,\n Richmond, Virginia.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eJohn Marshall House,\n Richmond, Virginia.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eRush Rhees Library,\n University of Rochester.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the Hampton L.\n Carson Collection, \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eFree Library of\n Philadelphia, Philadelphia,\n Pennsylvania.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eJohn Marshall House,\n Richmond, Virginia.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLocation of original is unknown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eJohn Marshall House, Richmond,\n Virginia.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eJohn Marshall House, Richmond,\n Virginia.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eJohn Marshall House, Richmond,\n Virginia.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eJohn Marshall House, Richmond,\n Virginia.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eUniversity of Virginia,\n Charlottesville, Virginia.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eJohn Marshall House, Richmond,\n Virginia.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eUniversity of Virginia,\n Charlottesville, Virginia.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eVirginia State Library,\n Richmond, Virginia.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eUniversity of Virginia,\n Charlottesville, Virginia.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eWestover Library, Arlington,\n Virginia.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eLibrary of the College of\n Physicians, Philadelphia,\n 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See\n Marshall, John M-104. 1 reel of negative\n microfilm.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis journal of accounts and law notes has been\n microfilmed. See M-105, M-105a, and M-105b for 3\n copies of positive microfilm. See M-l05c for 1\n reel of negative microfilm.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal is located in the Pickering Papers, \n \u003caddress\u003e\u003caddressline\u003eMassachusetts Historical Society,\n Boston, Massachusetts.\u003c/addressline\u003e\u003c/address\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis journal is available only on microfilm.\n See Marshall, John M-107. 1 reel of negative\n microfilm.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReprint is avilable in \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Papers of John\n Marshall, 1796-1798 (vol. 3);\u003c/title\u003eedited by\n Herbert A. Johnson, Charles T. Cullen, Nancy G.\n Harris, Charles F. Hobson, et. al. \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eCall Number: E302 .M365 v.1 - v.10\u003c/p\u003e"],"originalsloc_heading_ssm":["Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals","Originals"],"originalsloc_tesim":["Original is located in the Draper\n Collection, \n State Historical Society of\n Wisconsin, Madison,\n Wisconsin.","Original is located in the Monroe Papers,\n Library of Congress,\n Washington, D.C.","Original is located in the \n James Monroe Memorial\n Library, Fredericksburg,\n Virginia.","Original is located in the \n New York Public Library, New\n York City, New York.","Photostat, \n Monroe Papers, Library of\n Congress, Washingon D.C.","Location of original is unknown.","Photostat, \n Monroe Papers, Library of\n Congress, Washington D.C. Location of original is unknown.","Original is located in the \n Henry E. Huntington Library,\n San Marino, California.","Original is located in the Collection of\n the Association for the Preservation of\n Virginia Antiquities, on deposit at the \n Virginia Historical Society,\n Richmond, Virginia.","Original is located in the Page Walker\n Manuscripts, \n University of Virginia\n Library, Charlottesville,\n Virginia.","Original is located in the Nicholas\n Papers, \n University of Virginia\n Library, Charlottesville,\n Virginia.","Original is located in the Page Walker\n Manuscripts, \n University of Virginia\n Library, Charlottesville,\n Virginia.","Original is located in the Collection of\n the Association for the Preservation of\n Virginia Antiquities, on deposit at the \n Virginia Historical Society,\n Richmond, Virginia.","Original is located in the \n Free Library of\n Philadelphia, Philadelphia,\n Pennsylvania.","Original is located in the RG 59, \n National Archives,\n Washington, D.C.","Original is located in the Collection of\n the Association for the Preservation of\n Virginia Antiquities, on deposit at the \n Virginia Historical Society,\n Richmond, Virginia.","Original is located in the Iredell\n Manuscripts, \n Duke University Library,\n Durham, North Carolina.","Original is located in the \n Free Library of\n Philadelphia, Philadelphia,\n Pennsylvania.","Original is located in the RG 59, \n National Archives,\n Washington, D.C.","Original is located in the RG 59, \n National Archives,\n Washington, D.C.","Original is located in the RG 59, \n National Archives,\n Washington, D.C.","Original is located in the RG 59, \n National Archives,\n Washington, D.C.","Original is located in the RG 59, \n National Archives,\n Washington, D.C.","Original is privately owned.","Original is located in the Collection of\n the Association for the Preservation of\n Virginia Antiquities, on deposit at \n Virginia Historical Society,\n Richmond, Virginia.","Original in the Washington Papers, \n Library of Congress,\n Washington, D.C.","Original is privately owned.","Original in the Washington Papers, \n Library of Congress,\n Washington, D.C.","Original is located in the Washington\n Papers, \n Library of Congress,\n Washington, D.C.","Original is located in the Washington\n Papers, \n Library of Congress,\n Washington, D.C.","Original is located in the \n John Marshall House,\n Richmond, Virginia.","Original is located in \n Washington University, St.\n Louis, Missouri.","Location of original is unknown.","Original is located in the Collection\n of the Association for the Preservation\n of Virginia Antiquities, on deposit at\n the \n Virginia Historical\n Society, Richmond,\n Virginia.","Original is located in the Pinckney\n Family Papers, \n Library of Congress,\n Washington, D.C.","Original is located in the Hampton L.\n Carson Collection, \n Free Library of\n Philadelphia, Philadelphia,\n Pennsylvania.","Original is located in the William M.\n Elkins Collection, \n Free Library of\n Philadelphia, Philadelphia,\n Pennsylvania.","Original is located in the Pinkney\n Family Papers, \n Library of Congress,\n Washington D.C.","Original is located in the \n Free Library of\n Philadelphia, Philadelphia,\n Pennsylvania.","Original is located in the \n Free Library of\n Philadelphia, Philadelphia,\n Pennsylvania.","Original is located in the Jefferson\n Papers, \n Library of Congress,\n Washington D.C.","Printed in Dann, \n Mason\n Memoirs .","Original is located in the \n John Marshall House,\n Virginia State Library, Richmond,\n Virginia.","Original is located in the \n Washington University, St.\n Louis, Missouri.","Original is located in the \n University of Virginia,\n Charlottesville, Virginia.","Original is privately owned.","Original is located in the \n University of Virginia,\n Charlottesville, Virginia.","Original is located in the Pinckney\n Papers, \n Library of Congress,\n Washington, D.C.","Original is located in the \n Free Library of\n Philadelphia, Philadelphia,\n Pennsylvania.","Original is located in the Pinckney\n Papers, \n Library of Congress,\n Washington, D.C.","Original is located in the \n Massachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.","Original is located in the \n Massachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.","Original is located in the Monroe Papers,\n Library of Congress,\n Washington, D.C.","Location of original is unknown.","Original is located in the \n University of Virginia,\n Charlottesville, Virginia.","Location of original is unknown.","Original is located in the Hampton L.\n Carson Collection, \n Free Library of\n Philadelphia, Philadelphia,\n Pennsylvania.","Original is located in the RG 59, \n National Archives,\n Washington, D.C.","Original is located in the Hampton L.\n Carson Collection, \n Free Library of\n Philadelphia, Philadelphia,\n Pennsylvania.","Original is located in the \n Massachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.","Original is located in the \n Massachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.","Original is located in the \n Library of Congress,\n Washington, D.C.","Original is located in the \n Massachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.","Original is located in the \n Library of Congress,\n Washington, D.C.","Original is located in the \n John Marshall House,\n Richmond, Virginia.","Original is located in the \n Massachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.","Original is located in the \n Massachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.","Original is located in the \n Massachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.","Original is located in the \n Library of Congress,\n Washington, D.C.","Original is located in the Hampton L.\n Carson Collection, \n Free Library of\n Philadelphia, Philadelphia,\n Pennsylvania.","Original is located in the \n Massachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.","Original is located in the \n Massachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.","Original is located in the \n Library of Congress,\n Washington, D.C.","Original is located in the University of\n Virginia on deposit at \n John Marshall House,\n Richmond, Virginia.","Original is located in the Virginia State\n Library, on deposit \n John Marshall House,\n Richmond, Virginia.","Original is located in the Hampton L.\n Carson Collection, \n Free Library of\n Philadelphia, Philadelphia,\n Pennsylvania.","Original is located in the \n Library of Congress,\n Washington, D.C.","Original is located in \n Washington University, St.\n Louis, Missouri.","Original is located in the \n Library of Congress,\n Washington, D.C.","Original is located in the \n Library of Congress,\n Washington, D.C.","Location of original is unknown.","Original is located in the \n Massachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.","Original is located in the \n Rush Rhees Library,\n University of Rochester, Rochester,\n New York.","Original is located in the \n Library of Congress,\n Washington, D.C.","Original is located in \n Washington University,\n St. Louis, Missouri.","Original is located in the \n Massachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.","Location of original is unknown.","Original is located in the \n John Marshall House,\n Richmond, Virginia.","Original is located in the \n Massachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.","Original is located in the \n John Marshall House,\n Richmond, Virginia.","Original is located in the \n Massachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.","Location of original is unknown.","Location of original is unknown.","Original is located in the \n William L. Clements\n Library, Ann Arbor,\n Michigan.","Original is located in the \n University of\n Virginia?","Original is located in the \n Massachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.","Original is located in the Hampton L.\n Carson Collection, \n Free Library of\n Philadelphia, Philadelphia,\n Pennsylvania.","Original is located in the \n John Marshall House,\n Richmond, Virginia.","Original is located in the \n John Marshall House,\n Richmond, Virginia.","Original is located in the \n Massachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.","Original is located in the \n Massachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.","Original is located in the \n Massachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.","Original is privately owned.","Original is located in the \n University of Virginia,\n Charlottesville,\n Virginia.","Original is located in the \n Massachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.","Original is located in the \n National Archives,\n Washington, D.C.","Original is located in the \n University of Virginia,\n Charlottesville,\n Virginia.","Original is located in the \n Massachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.","Original is located in the \n John Marshall House,\n Richmond, Virginia.","Original is located in the \n Massachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.","Original is located in the \n Massachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.","Original is privately owned.","Original is located in the \n Massachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.","Original is located in the \n Washington University,\n St. Louis, Missouri.","Original is located in the Marshall\n Papers, \n Library of Congress,\n Washington, D.C.","Original is located in the \n Library of U.S. Supreme\n Court, Washington D.C.","Original is located in the \n Fauquier County\n Courthouse?","Original is located in the \n Massachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.","See the November and December 1832\n issue of \n The\n Comet .","Original is privately owned.","Original is located in the \n Massachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.","Original is located in the \n John Marshall House,\n Richmond, Virginia.","Original is located in the \n John Marshall House,\n Richmond, Virginia.","Original is located in the \n Massachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.","Original is located in the \n Illinois State Historical\n Library, Springfield,\n Illinois.","Original is located in the Marshall\n Papers, \n Library of Congress,\n Washington, D.C.","Original is located in the \n Massachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.","Original is located in the \n Duke University, Durham,\n North Carolina.","Original is located in the \n Massachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.","Original is located in the \n John Marshall House,\n Virginia State Library.","Original is located in the \n Massachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.","Original is located in the \n John Marshall House,\n Virginia State Library.","Original is located in the \n Massachusetts Historical\n Society, Boston,\n Massachusetts.","Original is located in the \n Harvard University,\n Cambridge, Massachusetts.","Location of original is unknown.","Original is located in the \n Virginia State Library,\n Richmond, Virginia.","Original is located in the \n John Marshall House,\n Richmond, Virginia.","Original is located in the \n Rush Rhees Library,\n University of Rochester.","Original is located in the Hampton L.\n Carson Collection, \n Free Library of\n Philadelphia, Philadelphia,\n Pennsylvania.","Original is located in the \n John Marshall House,\n Richmond, Virginia.","Location of original is unknown.","Original is located in the \n John Marshall House, Richmond,\n Virginia.","Original is located in the \n John Marshall House, Richmond,\n Virginia.","Original is located in the \n John Marshall House, Richmond,\n Virginia.","Original is located in the \n John Marshall House, Richmond,\n Virginia.","Original is located in the \n University of Virginia,\n Charlottesville, Virginia.","Original is located in the \n John Marshall House, Richmond,\n Virginia.","Original is located in the \n University of Virginia,\n Charlottesville, Virginia.","Original is located in the \n Virginia State Library,\n Richmond, Virginia.","Original is located in the \n University of Virginia,\n Charlottesville, Virginia.","Original is located in the \n Westover Library, Arlington,\n Virginia.","Original is located in the \n Library of the College of\n Physicians, Philadelphia,\n Pennsylvania.","Original is located in the \n Minnesota Historical Society, St.\n Paul, Minnesota.","Original hangs in the \n Virginia State Library, Richmond,\n Virginia.","This account book has been microfilmed. See\n Marshall, John M-104. 1 reel of negative\n microfilm.","This journal of accounts and law notes has been\n microfilmed. See M-105, M-105a, and M-105b for 3\n copies of positive microfilm. See M-l05c for 1\n reel of negative microfilm.","Original is located in the Pickering Papers, \n Massachusetts Historical Society,\n Boston, Massachusetts.","This journal is available only on microfilm.\n See Marshall, John M-107. 1 reel of negative\n microfilm.","Reprint is avilable in \n The Papers of John\n Marshall, 1796-1798 (vol. 3); edited by\n Herbert A. Johnson, Charles T. Cullen, Nancy G.\n Harris, Charles F. Hobson, et. al. \n Call Number: E302 .M365 v.1 - v.10"],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eJohn Marshall Papers, Manuscripts and Rare Books\n Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["John Marshall Papers, Manuscripts and Rare Books\n Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary."],"relatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe majority of the copies, comprising approximately 50%\n of this collection, are from the Marshall House in\n Richmond, Virginia; the Library of Congress; or the\n Massachusetts Historical Society, but other depositories\n are also represented. For information concerning the\n location of orginials please see the components listing\n below.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSee also John Marshall Faculty/Alumni File, University\n Archives, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.\u003c/p\u003e"],"relatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Related Material"],"relatedmaterial_tesim":["The majority of the copies, comprising approximately 50%\n of this collection, are from the Marshall House in\n Richmond, Virginia; the Library of Congress; or the\n Massachusetts Historical Society, but other depositories\n are also represented. For information concerning the\n location of orginials please see the components listing\n below.","See also John Marshall Faculty/Alumni File, University\n Archives, Swem Library, College of William and Mary."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eOriginal letters and copies of letters from other\n repositories, chiefly 1788-1835, of John Marshall's\n correspondence with his wife, Mary Willis (Ambler) Marshall,\n other family members, James Monroe, Joseph Story, Bushrod\n Washington, and others. The correspondence reflects Marshall's\n wide range in interests including law, Virginia and U. S.\n politics, international affairs, agriculture and social\n events.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlso included are letters by family members and\n descendants; a charcoal sketch and copies of visual\n representations of John Marshall; and places and events\n associated with him.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas delivered his [Monroe's] letters to \n \u003cabbr expan=\"General George Rogers Clark\"\u003e\n Gen[era]l [George Rogers] Clark\u003c/abbr\u003eand \n \u003cabbr expan=\"John Banks\"\u003e[John?] Banks\u003c/abbr\u003e;\n discusses proceedings of the Virginia Assembly;\n \u003cabbr expan=\"Richard Henry Lee\"\u003eR[ichard]\n H[enry] Lee's\u003c/abbr\u003eservices to the Assembly\n are lost forever and \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Colo. Henry Lee\"\u003eColo. Harry\n [Henry \"Light Horse Harry\"] Lee\u003c/abbr\u003ewill\n probably take his place; mentions bills\n defining citizenship introduced by \n \u003cabbr expan=\"John Taylor\"\u003e[John]\n Taylor\u003c/abbr\u003eand \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Colo. George Nicholas\"\u003eColo.\n [George] Nicholas\u003c/abbr\u003e; tells of [Joseph?]\n Jones bill and discusses \n \u003cabbr expan=\"[Patrick Henry\"\u003ePatrick]\n Henry's\u003c/abbr\u003estyle of oratory; relates the\n House being split upon the issue of exclusion\n of the Statute Staple men; discusses military\n warrants for land and his [Marshall's] father,\n who set out for the western country on November\n 5.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding Tcy of ALS. 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBlesses George Washington who resigned his\n commission of 23 December 1783; will put his\n [Monroe's] letter to \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Major John Crittenden\"\u003eMajr.\n [John] Crittenden\u003c/abbr\u003einto the hands of \n \u003cabbr expan=\"General George Rogers Clarke\"\u003e\n Genl. [George Rogers] Clarke\u003c/abbr\u003e, who will\n be in the western country in February, and who\n will pay close attention to his [Monroe's]\n military warrant; mentions that the Speaker\n [John Tyler] has left Richmond; laments the\n passage of the bill excluding Virginian\n delegates to Congress from serving in the\n Virginian legislature; \"Fear of the power of\n Congress I have ever considered as chimerical;\"\n \u003cabbr expan=\"Colo. John Francis Mercer\"\u003eColo.\n [John Francis] Mercer\u003c/abbr\u003einformed him of the\n passage in the Continental Congress of the\n resolution accepting Virginia's cession of the\n northwest territory.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding Tcy of ALS. 3 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas enclosed a bill of exchange for the one\n hundred dollars due him [Monroe] as a Delegate\n to Congress, four dollars having been expended\n on his land warrant now in the hands of the\n Surveyor.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding Tcy of ALS. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eClaims he is unable to send money because\n inclement weather has hindered state tax\n collection; \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Samuel Ege\"\u003e[Samuel] Ege\u003c/abbr\u003eand\n Monroe's former landlady, Mrs. Shera, are\n clamoring to be paid; mentions the impending\n marriage of \"Little\" \n \u003cabbr expan=\"John Stewart\"\u003e[John]\n Stewart\u003c/abbr\u003eand \"Kitty Hair\" [Catherine\n Hare]; gossips about \"artificial heat\" of the\n courtships of Mr. Dunn and \"your old\n acquaintance\" Miss Shera, and of \"Tabby\" \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Tabitha Eppes\"\u003e[Tabitha]\n Eppes\u003c/abbr\u003ewho \"has grown quite fat \u0026amp;\n buxom, her charms...renovated,\" and her\n unsuccessful suitors: \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Edward Carrington\"\u003e[Edward]\n Carrington\u003c/abbr\u003e, [?] Young, [?] Selden, \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Matthew Wright\"\u003e[Matthew]\n Wright\u003c/abbr\u003e, and \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Foster Webb, Jr.\"\u003eFoster Webb,\n [Jr.]\u003c/abbr\u003e; mentions other friends and state\n officials including \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Thomas Lomax\"\u003e[Thomas]\n Lomax\u003c/abbr\u003e, \n \u003cabbr expan=\"[William Nelson, Jr.\"\u003eWilliam]\n Nelson, [Jr.]\u003c/abbr\u003e, \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Beverley Randolph\"\u003e[Beverley]\n Randolph\u003c/abbr\u003e, and \n \u003cabbr expan=\"William Short\"\u003e[William]\n Short\u003c/abbr\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cabbr expan=\"Colo. William Grayson\"\u003eColo.\n [William] Grayson\u003c/abbr\u003eis not here, but \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Wilson Cary Nicholas\"\u003e[Wilson\n Cary] Nicholas\u003c/abbr\u003eis; a quorum was reached\n on Wednesday, [May 12] and committees are being\n appointed; \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Patrick Henry\"\u003e[Patrick]\n Henry\u003c/abbr\u003earrived yesterday and is eager to\n have postponement of the tax collection; the\n Speaker [John Tyler] was chosen without a\n contest; tell \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Colo. John Francis Mercer\"\u003eColo.\n [John Francis] Mercer\u003c/abbr\u003ethat there lies\n £100 in the Treasury for him; he\n [John Marshall] will tell his [John Francis\n Mercer's] brother [James Mercer] in\n Fredericksburg the same; \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Major John Crittenden\"\u003eMajor\n [John] Crittenden\u003c/abbr\u003eis again elected for\n Fayette County; asks him [Monroe] to deliver\n letters for him to \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Doctor Arthur Lee\"\u003eDoctor [Arthur]\n Lee\u003c/abbr\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReports he delivered his [William Branch\n Giles's] letter to \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Major Charles Magill\"\u003eMajor\n [Charles] Magill\u003c/abbr\u003ewhile in Winchester,\n [Virginia] in August; discusses gaming act and\n several points concerning the case of his\n [William Branch Giles's] client, Mr. Bell; \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Brother James Markham Marshall\"\u003e\n Brother James [Markham Marshall]\u003c/abbr\u003ehas\n arrived from Kentucky and will remain in town\n through October.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding Tcy of ALS. 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCongratulates him on his return from\n Montreal and the Northwest; he too wishes that\n the British debts resolutions had not been\n passed, because it tends to weaken the federal\n bands and provides a pretext for the British to\n retain possession of the forts on the lakes;\n [Joseph Jones] has introduced a bill to provide\n for seven annual payments for repayment to\n begin in April 1786; only bill that has been\n passed was one granting \n \u003cabbr expan=\"James Rumsey\"\u003e[James]\n Rumsey\u003c/abbr\u003ea 10 year monopoly to develop the\n machine in a steamboat; discusses rejected\n bills, including one encouraging intermarriage\n with the Indians; General Assessment and\n circuit court bills will probably be thrown\n out, even with the influence of [Patrick]\n Henry; his [Monroe's] letter recommending \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Colo. John Francis Mercer\"\u003eColo.\n [John Francis] Mercer\u003c/abbr\u003edid not arrive in\n time to appoint him to a position; \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Joseph James\"\u003e[Joseph]\n James\u003c/abbr\u003ehas replaced \n \u003cabbr expan=\"William Short\"\u003e[William]\n Short\u003c/abbr\u003e, and \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Spencer Roane\"\u003e[Spencer]\n Roane\u003c/abbr\u003eand \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Miles Selden, Jr.\"\u003e[Miles] Selden,\n [Jr.]\u003c/abbr\u003ehave replaced \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Meriwether Smith\"\u003e[Meriwether]\n Smith\u003c/abbr\u003eand \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Colo. William Christian\"\u003eColo.\n [William] Christian\u003c/abbr\u003e; \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Edward Carrington\"\u003e[Edward?]\n Carrington\u003c/abbr\u003ewas very disappointed in\n losing by one vote when Colo. Jack Nicholas\n walked out on the last ballot; he [John\n Marshall] attempted too to promote Monroe's\n friend's interest, Wilson Nicholas, who is\n about to marry \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Miss Margaret Smith\"\u003eMiss\n [Margaret] Smith\u003c/abbr\u003eof Baltimore; his\n [Marshall's] father is willing to help him\n [Monroe] in regards to his [Monroe's] western\n lands, but his [John Marshall's] cousin \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Humphrey Marshall\"\u003eHumphr[e]y\n Marshall\u003c/abbr\u003ewould be better able to;\n discusses relative merits of selling or keeping\n his [Monroe's] western lands.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInvitation to dinner; on verso is poem \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"doublequote\" href=\"\"\u003eExtempore at the\n Convention in Virginia,\u003c/title\u003ewritten by\n Morris, satirizing the slowness of the\n proceedings of the Virginia convention called\n to ratify the U.S. Constitution.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSends client a second subpoena as the first\n was never returned, concerning a suit in\n Chancery Court which involved title to land in\n Fauquier County, Virginia; asks that any\n depositions or affidavits be forwarded to\n him.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn response to a letter of Washington's, he\n [John Marshall] discusses the legalities of\n caveats and land patents.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses general English legal history of\n intestacy, and Virginia's laws concerning\n priority of payment of a decedent's debts by an\n executor.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsks for his [Thomas Walker's] account\n rendered to \n \u003cabbr expan=\"John Syme\"\u003e[John] Syme\u003c/abbr\u003efor\n other materials which will help him [John\n Marshall] to argue his [Thomas Walker's] court\n case.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Col. Reuben Lindsay\"\u003eCol. [Reuben]\n Lindsey [sic] [Lindsay]\u003c/abbr\u003ean order upon him\n [John Marshall] for twelve pounds.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses his [John Marshall's] financial\n obligations to him, including £20\n for a chariot; asks him to pay the governor\n [Henry Lee] for a hogshead of wine for him;\n mentions he is setting out immediately for\n Williamsburg.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding Tcy ALS. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding Pst of ALS. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAdvises him [Francis Walker] to take\n testimony showing the value of his [Francis\n Walker's] lands which formerly belonged to \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Mr. Nicholas Meriwether\"\u003eMr.\n [Nicholas] Meriwether\u003c/abbr\u003ein preparation of\n his case; discusses his [Francis Walker's]\n other case against \n \u003cabbr expan=\"William Cabell\"\u003e[William]\n Cabell\u003c/abbr\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe case will probably be heard in March and\n Mrs. [?] Turnbull's presence will not be\n material; the subjects which the testimony\n should point to are the fortune of Mr. [?]\n Turnbull, the injury done that of Mrs.\n Turnbull, and the expenses she has incurred\n since the separation; if he [Charles Lee] can\n learn that, he will prove himself useful in\n Alexandria.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNote asking Jones to pay Garrett Cottringer\n $100; the bill is endorsed on the verso \"Feby\n 11 1794 Reed Payment, Garrett Cottringer.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRespectfully declines the Office of Attorney\n General of the U.S. because of his current\n business in Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas transmitted to the clerk of Dumfries a\n transverse to the Fauquier inquest; hopes that\n it will be determined by means of a demurrer at\n the next terms; discusses why he [John\n Marshall] wishes this.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas just arrived safely in Philadelphia, and\n waits impatiently for the arrival of \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Mr. Alexander Campbell\"\u003eMr.\n [Alexander] Campbell\u003c/abbr\u003ebefore considering a\n British debts case; his [John Marshall's] own\n case may not be taken up; mentions attending\n the theatre and compares Philadelphia's\n favorite actress, Mrs. Marshall, to Richmond's \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Mrs. Anne West Bignall\"\u003eMrs. [Anne\n West] Bignall\u003c/abbr\u003e; has not yet heard from\n his brother, James Markham Marshall; sends\n greetings to his children.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding Pst of ALS. 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn which he [John Marshall] sells 1,640\n acres in Clarke County, Kentucky, near Strouds\n Station which had been patented to Marshall on\n 11 March 1784. At dollars per acre, McCreery\n pays Marshall £500 as a down\n payment, with the balance to be paid when full\n title is proved. The deed is recorded under the\n Seal of the General Court of Virginia on 15\n June 1801.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUpset at the news of \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Rawleigh Colston\"\u003e[Rawleigh]\n Colston's\u003c/abbr\u003eloss, and of the postponement\n of his [John Marshall's] visit to Buckpond,\n stating \"the thoughts of seeing you once\n more...is a principle means of keeping me\n alive\"; is pleased with his son's \"part...in\n the present Storm\"; would like to see his\n grandsons but fears the journey would tax their\n youthful constitutions; discusses his potential\n bequests of his property to the family;\n mentions he has paid taxes on his [John\n Marshall's] military land, but not on that\n which he gave to his grandson, Tom [Thomas\n Marshall] in Fayette [County, Kentucky]; thinks\n that \"the political Horizon [is about] to clear\n up\"; asks Marshall to notify \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Col. Edward Carrington\"\u003eCol.\n [Edward] Carrington\u003c/abbr\u003ethat he [John\n Marshall] has sent \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Mr. Peyton Shorts\"\u003eMr. [Peyton]\n Shorts'\u003c/abbr\u003eaccounts to \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Mr. Oliver Wolcott\"\u003eMr. [Oliver]\n Walcot [sic] [Wolcott]\u003c/abbr\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Mr. John Eyre\"\u003eMr. [John]\n Eyre\u003c/abbr\u003eand \n \u003cabbr expan=\"James Nimmo\"\u003e[James] Nimmo\u003c/abbr\u003e,\n two of Virginia's electors in the presidential\n election of 1796; comments upon the\n distribution of Virginia's electoral votes\n between \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Thomas Jefferson\"\u003e[Thomas]\n Jefferson\u003c/abbr\u003e, \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Samuel Adams\"\u003eSam[ue]l\n Adams\u003c/abbr\u003e, [?] Clinton, \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Aaron Burr\"\u003e[Aaron] Burr\u003c/abbr\u003e, \n \u003cabbr expan=\"General George Washington\"\u003e\n Gen[era]l [George] Washington\u003c/abbr\u003e, [?] \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Pinckney\"\u003ePin[c]kney\u003c/abbr\u003e, and\n John Adams; the Virginia Assembly displays its\n former hostility to Federalism; hopes North\n Carolina will not \"tread the crooked path of\n Virginia\"; will furnish \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Alexander James Dallas\"\u003e[Alexander\n James] Dallas\u003c/abbr\u003ewith his [John Marshall's]\n argument in the British debts case.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTells of a day spent at Mount Vernon\n (\"certainly one of the most delightful\n places in our country\") on his way to\n Philadelphia via Alexandria; misses her so\n much as to send his man \"Dick\" to her with\n this letter; is treated well by his unkle\n [sic] \n \u003cabbr expan=\"James Keith\"\u003e[James]\n Keith\u003c/abbr\u003ein Alexandria; \"I never was\n peremptory but I must now give you one\n positive order. It is be happy\"; sends two\n letters which he accidentally carried off\n and asks her to send the one addressed to \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Genl. Henry Young\"\u003eGenl.\n [Henry] Young\u003c/abbr\u003eto \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Mr. John Hopkins\"\u003eMr. [John]\n Hopkins\u003c/abbr\u003e, and to send the other to his\n brother, [Thomas Marshall].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding Pst of ALS. 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThanks him [Caesar Rodney] for informing\n him that some papers which had slipped out\n of his [John Marshall's] pocket were being\n held by Mr. McCullough at New Castle, whom\n he has requested to post them to\n Philadelphia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses his voyage up the Chesapeake\n from Baltimore; mentions his first meeting\n with President John Adams; describes \"heavy\n gloom\" which hangs around the almost\n bankrupt Robert Morris and family; is\n impressed by the Vauxhall of Philadelphia\n and fashionable diversions; mentions estate\n of \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Mrs. Susan Hayward\"\u003eMrs.\n [Susan] Heyward [sic] [Hayward]\u003c/abbr\u003eon the\n banks of the Schuylkil.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding Pst of ALS. 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIs \"extremely chagrined\" at never\n receiving any mail from her; writes he will\n sail on the brig Grace for Amsterdam within\n the week to join \n \u003cabbr expan=\"General Charles Pinckney\"\u003e\n General [Charles] Pinckney\u003c/abbr\u003e; discusses\n July 4th celebration of the Senators and\n Representatives.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding Pst of ALS. 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas received her letter of June 30;\n thanks Heaven for her improved health and\n warns her that \"melancholy may inflict\n punishment\" on her unborn child; mentions\n that \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Colonel Robert Gamble\"\u003eColonel\n [Robert] Gamble's\u003c/abbr\u003ewife would like to\n visit her; expects to sail by the beginning\n of next week at the latest and is upset at\n the delay; will finish his business and\n return as soon as possible; sends greetings\n to his children and mother-in-law; mentions\n the adjournment of Congress.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding Pst of ALS. 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSends this letter by \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Mr. Humphrey Marshall\"\u003eMr.\n [Humphrey ?] Marshall\u003c/abbr\u003e; attended the\n play \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eRomeo and\n Juliet\u003c/title\u003elast night, and compares \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Mrs. Anne Bruton Merry\"\u003eMrs.\n [Anne Bruton] Merry's\u003c/abbr\u003e\"Juliet\" to\n Richmond's \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Mrs. Anne West Bignall\"\u003eMrs.\n [Anne] West [Bignall's]\u003c/abbr\u003e; visited \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Mrs. Susan Hayward\"\u003eMrs.\n [Susan] Heyward [sic] Hayward\u003c/abbr\u003eand\n gossips about her rumored upcoming marriage\n to [Henry] Baring; complains about delayed\n departure and wearies of dining out, as he\n begins \"to require a frugal repast with good\n cool water\"; wishes \"that we were looking\n back on our separation instead of seeing it\n before us.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding Pst of ALS. 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsks her to give a parcel of land deeds\n from \n \u003cabbr expan=\"John Banks\"\u003e[John?]\n Banks\u003c/abbr\u003eto Hobe, which can be found in\n his pine desk in his office, to the clerk of\n the General Court; is impatient to get on\n board ship and away; wishes he had spent\n another week in Richmond; with tomorrow's\n departure of the Republican, \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Richard Brent\"\u003e[Richard]\n Brent\u003c/abbr\u003e, the last of the Virginia\n Congressmen will have left the city; \"my\n spirits sink at parting with them.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding Pst of ALS. 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWill board the \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eGrace\u003c/title\u003eat New\n Castle on Sunday [July 18] and will\n hopefully arrive in Amsterdam by the end of\n August; should hear from him next in\n October; \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Mr. John Brown\"\u003eMr. [John]\n Brown\u003c/abbr\u003e[his secretary] has just arrived\n on the last stage; received his son Tom's\n letter of July 6; dined yesterday at William\n Bingham's country seat on the Schuylkil;\n describes the table setting and \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Mrs. Anne Willing Bingham\"\u003eMrs.\n [Anne Willing] Bingham's\u003c/abbr\u003edressing in\n the latest fashions; besides his Virginia\n relations, he most enjoys the company of \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Mr. Robert Morris\"\u003eMr. [Robert]\n Morris'\u003c/abbr\u003efamily.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding Pst of ALS. 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUnfavorable winds have prevented them\n from reaching the open ocean; describes ship\n board accommodations, provisions, and\n companions, including John Brown, John G.\n Gamble, the Captain of the ship, Mr. Willis,\n and two Dutch gentleman; has sent a letter\n to Winchester, [Virginia] for his son, Tom;\n instructs her how to reach him [John\n Marshall] by letter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding Pst of ALS. 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1200 or 1300 miles east of the Capes of\n Delaware, Marshall and the crew hailed a\n ship bound for America; has not been very\n seasick and has busied himself with reading;\n has arrived in Holland and sends news of his\n health and safety on the first American\n bound ship.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding Pst of ALS. 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe captain of a British frigate of\n Admiral Duncan's fleet at the mouth of the\n Texel boarded their ship on August 29 but\n treated them extremely politely upon\n learning that a U.S. minister was on board;\n observed the Dutch fleet in the Texel ready\n to move on the British if negotiations at\n Lisle [sic] [Lille] failed; describes the\n internal politics of the French government:\n the Directory presses for war while the\n Council of Five Hundred desires peace,\n fearing the politicization of the French\n army; Lord Malmesberry [sic] [Malmesbury;\n William Harris] is at Lisle [sic] [Lille]\n negotiating for peace between Britain and\n France; Tayleran Perigord [sic] [Charles\n Maurice de Talleyran Perigord], the French\n Minister of foreign affairs, has sent orders\n to French parts to grant immediate passports\n to the American envoys.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArrived at the Hague and met with \n \u003cabbr expan=\"General Charles C. Pinckney\"\u003e\n General [Charles C.] Pinckney\u003c/abbr\u003eon\n September 3; has just heard from an express\n from the Dutch minister at Paris to the\n Committee of Foreign Affairs about the\n Directory with the aid of the army moving\n against royalist and right wing opponents in\n the Directory, the Council of Five Hundred\n and the Council of Elders; discusses the\n impact which this coup d'etat of 18\n Fructidor should have upon foreign policy;\n the French government is now in the hands of\n those unfriendly to peace, and the moderates\n willing to judge the American case with\n fairness have been removed; received news of\n \u003cabbr expan=\"Mr. Elbridge Gerry\"\u003eMr.\n [Elbridge] Gerry's\u003c/abbr\u003eintended departure\n from Boston on July 23 and will await his\n arrival in Rotterdam for a week before they\n leave for Paris.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReached the Hague on August 3 and is very\n much pleased with \n \u003cabbr expan=\"General Charles C. Pinckney\"\u003e\n General [Charles C.] Pinckney\u003c/abbr\u003e; had\n intended to set out for Paris immediately,\n but Pinckney received news from \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Elbridge Gerry\"\u003e[Elbridge]\n Gerry\u003c/abbr\u003eon August 5 that he will arrive\n at the end of August; is perplexed and\n mortified at the delay; describes the Hague\n and its social life; mentions lack of\n companions for Pinckney's wife and daughter;\n has enjoyed the theatre even though he does\n not understand the language, and applauds\n the performances of \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Madame Louise Rosalie Lefebvre DuGrazon\"\u003e\n Madame [Louise Rosalie Lefebvre] de Gazon\n [sic] [DuGrazon]\u003c/abbr\u003e; the Directory's\n coup in Paris may abridge negotiations so as\n to occasion his return to America this fall,\n but he would resent such a circumstance even\n though he misses her immensely and is\n impatient to be with her again.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding Pst of ALS. 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe reports on the revolution in Paris\n have been confirmed; discusses violations of\n the French constitution, under the hand of\n the army, the very essence of a republic is\n destroyed, but \"French liberty may survive\n the shock it has sustained;\" \"All power is\n now in the undivided possession of those who\n have directed against us those hostile\n measures of which we so justly complain;\"\n will set out for Paris on Monday with or\n without \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Elbridge Gerry\"\u003e[Elbridge]\n Gerry\u003c/abbr\u003e; contrary to previous reports,\n negotiations still continue at Lille; their\n route to Paris is prescribed on their\n permit, probably to prevent their passing\n through Lisle [sic]; [Philippe Antoine] and \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Merlin de Douai\"\u003eMerlin [de\n Douai]\u003c/abbr\u003eis chosen director to replace\n Barthelemey and \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Nicholas Francois de Neufchateau\"\u003e\n [Nicholas] Francois de Neufchatil [sic]\n [Neufchateau]\u003c/abbr\u003eto replace Carnot; Mr.\n Noel, the minister of France at the Hague\n has just informed him that 1,500 people have\n been arrested at Lyons and that \n \u003cabbr expan=\"General Andre Massena\"\u003eGeneral\n [Andre] Massena\u003c/abbr\u003eis marching to Avignon\n to quell resistance there.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes a copy of the letter which the\n three submitted to the French minister of\n foreign affairs after waiting to be received\n for a month; they have yet to receive an\n answer to this November 11 letter, and the\n condemnation of American vessels continues;\n the following is written in a numeric cipher\n which is decoded in superscript: \"Frequent\n and urgent attempts have been made to\n inveigle us again into negociation [sic]\n with persons not officially authorized, of\n which the obtaining of money is the\n basis...we have very little prospect of\n succeeding in our mission.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas enclosed an issue of the Conservative\n [sic] [ \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003e\n Conservateur\u003c/title\u003e(Paris)] as an example\n of the abuse of the U.S. by the French\n press; discusses the arrests of innocent\n American citizens in Paris, including the\n cases of \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Jesse Putnam\"\u003e[Jesse]\n Putnam\u003c/abbr\u003e, \n \u003cabbr expan=\"James V. Murray\"\u003e[James V.]\n Murray\u003c/abbr\u003eand his brother [George W.\n Murray]; discusses the situation of American\n merchant marines who, being forced ashore\n after their vessels were captured, have no\n choice but to become French privateers;\n \"France resounds with the proposd [sic]\n invasion of England,\" but such talk may be\n designed merely to alarm Britain; discusses\n France's continental ambitions and Spain's\n situation; writes of the internal France\n political scene; encloses the November 7\n issue of the Leyden gazette with news of \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Emmanuel Louis Henri Alexandre de Launay, comte D'Anteaigues\"\u003e\n [Emmanuel Louis Henri Alexandre de Launay,\n comte] D'Anteaigues\u003c/abbr\u003eand \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Joseph Fouche\"\u003e[Joseph] Fauche\n [sic] [Fouche]\u003c/abbr\u003eand the reports of \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Gillaume Alexandre Troncon de DuCounaray\"\u003e\n [Gillaume Alexandre] Troncon de\n [Du]Counaray\u003c/abbr\u003eand \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Antoine-Claire Thibaudeau\"\u003e\n [Antoine-Claire] Thibidau [sic]\n [Thibaudeau]\u003c/abbr\u003e; gives his opinion of\n the future French treatment of the U.S.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas received no letters from her nor from\n his friends in the U.S.; will not be home\n until May and hopes that the Randolph's\n Executors case can be postponed until then;\n mentions amusements and dissipations of\n Paris; describes his new living arrangements\n [with Madame de Villette].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding Pst of ALS. 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCannot settle or pay the accounts of\n American Consuls until the Congress of the\n United States acts on the matter; the three\n have agreed to transcend their powers to a\n limited extent in order to liberate distressed\n American seamen and return them to the U.S.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of ALS. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePresents his compliments to Marshall; called\n at his lodgings twice this morning, but he\n [John Marshall] was not in; regrets that he\n will not be able to dine with him due to a\n previous engagement.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArrived in Richmond a week ago but hasn't\n been able to attend to his business because of\n his many callers and because of the heat; he\n enjoys the company of his three year old\n daughter, Mary; discusses the health of his\n son, John, who is cutting teeth.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding Pst of ALS. 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses Gerry's letter of 20 October 1798\n to President John Adams, in which he [Elbridge\n Gerry] makes several misstatements about his\n part in the XYZ Affair, which Marshall now\n refutes point by point; \"I must hope sir that\n you will think justly on this subject \u0026amp;\n will thereby save us both the pain of an\n altercation...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eApologizes for an article lately published\n listing the offices which he [George\n Washington] offered to him [John Marshall],\n with which he [John Marshall] had nothing to\n do; the writer of the article, who obtained no\n information directly or indirectly from him\n [John Marshall], \"was unquestionably actuated\n by a wish to serve me and by resentment at the\n various malignant calumnies that have been so\n profusely bestowed on me.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIs pleased with his [John Marshall's]\n election to the [Congress] even though by a\n small majority; discusses the elections; asks\n him to inform him of the election results when\n all are known.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWill communicate the enclosures of his\n [George Washington's] last letter to \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Col. Edward Carrington\"\u003eCol.\n [Edward] Carrington\u003c/abbr\u003eand \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Col. William Heth\"\u003eCol. [William]\n Heth\u003c/abbr\u003ewhen they arrive in town; comments\n upon the elections and the unexpected defeat of\n \u003cabbr expan=\"Col. George Hancock\"\u003eCol. [George]\n Hancock\u003c/abbr\u003eand Major [?] Haywood; discusses\n the composition of the new state legislature;\n and upon France's declaration of war upon\n Austria and its consequences.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses military appointments and\n recommends several officers, including \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Col. John Cropper\"\u003eCol. [John]\n Cropper\u003c/abbr\u003e, \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Genl. George Rogers Clark\"\u003eGenl.\n [George Rogers] Clark\u003c/abbr\u003e, \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Genl. Thomas Posey\"\u003eGenl. [Thomas]\n Posey\u003c/abbr\u003e, Col. James Breckenbridge, \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Col. Callohill Minnis\"\u003eCol.\n [Callohill] Minnis\u003c/abbr\u003e, \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Genl. Robert Porterfield of Augusta\"\u003e\n Genl. [Robert] Porterfield of Augusta\u003c/abbr\u003e, \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Genl. Joseph Blackwell of Fauquier\"\u003e\n Genl. [Joseph] Blackwell of Fauquier\u003c/abbr\u003e,\n and \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Col. Joseph Swearingean of Berkley\"\u003e\n Col. [Joseph] Swearingean of Berkley\u003c/abbr\u003e;\n comments upon the death of \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Mr. Patrick Henry\"\u003eMr. [Patrick]\n Henry\u003c/abbr\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWas unable to return the enclosed letter\n because he was out of town and his happy that\n he [George Washington] is not displeased that\n it was not transmitted to \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Col. John Cropper\"\u003eCol. [John]\n Cropper\u003c/abbr\u003e; has just received his [George\n Washington's] second letter to that gentleman\n and will forward it immediately.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding Pst of ADS, 2 pages. 5 August\n 1812. Indenture of Isaac Arnold and Elija\n Arnold assigning the title of the Manor of\n Leeds to James K. Marshall.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEncloses a blank power of attorney in order\n to transfer and draw dividends upon his\n Pennsylvania Bank Stock which Mr. [?] Pleasant\n has just remitted him [John Marshall];\n discusses land sales and the Manor of Leeds;\n discusses political situation and how the next\n election will affect their affairs; comments\n upon domestic unrest in regards to foreign\n affairs: \" I look forward with more\n apprehension than I have ever done to the\n future political events of our country;\" has\n just been informed of the total English defeat\n in Holland.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of ALS. 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCongratulates him on his marriage; the\n newspapers report Philadelphia mourning the\n death of Genl. Washington; hopes that\n moderation and toleration will succeed the\n violence of the last session of Congress; party\n strife exasperates Pennsylvania; the Governor\n has threatened to turn out of office every man\n who voted against him.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReplies to a letter which proposed a\n change of the law for collecting the\n internal revenue of the U.S. in\n nonintercourse law with France; mentions\n that popular feeling is against it, as the\n public sees it responsible for present low\n price of tobacco.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas received her letter of August 5 and\n is pleased with her account of the\n children's behavior; approves of her sending\n the boys \"upcountry;\" Tom's [Thomas\n Marshall] last letter contained no news of\n her health.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas just returned from a visit to Mt.\n Vernon where the widowed Mrs. Washington\n appeared \"tolerably cheerful;\" hopes Polly\n would \"show more firmness\" as a widow;\n pleased with his young son, Jacqueline's,\n last letter and hopes his schooling with Mr.\n Burns will continue.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding Pst of ALS. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses the results of the presidential\n election of 1800 in Maryland, New England,\n and Pennsylvania, stating that it is \"an\n absolute certainty that any success in your\n state [South Carolina] elects him [Thomas\n Jefferson].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReproaches himself for forgetting to\n recommend Major [?] Richardson to him [the\n commander of the 2nd Brig., Virginia\n militia] and does so now, hoping his neglect\n has not been a negative reflection of\n Richardson's abilities.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn compliance with his [John Jay] letter,\n the President [John Adams] has directed a\n requisition to be made to the Governor of\n Lower Canada for the delivery of Thomas\n Jamieson, alias Charles Splendor, a.k.a.\n Charles Johnston to the authorized person;\n the requisition and related documents are\n enclosed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses the difficulties involved in\n the present negotiations between King and\n the British commissioners; the President\n [John Adams] informs him that an informal\n agreement will be satisfactory as it will be\n impossible to induce the British cabinet to\n abandon their principles; matters are left\n to his good judgment; the stipulation of a\n sum is better than the present unsettled\n situation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHis financial embarrassments have\n prevented him from devoting time to writing\n the history or General Washington's life;\n sends him [John Marshall] a trunk containing\n Washington's books and papers, and an\n enclosed list thereof; wishes he weren't so\n ignorant of bankruptcy proceedings.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePresidential candidates, \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Thomas Jefferson\"\u003e[Thomas]\n Jefferson\u003c/abbr\u003eand \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Aaron Burr\"\u003e[Aaron]\n Burr\u003c/abbr\u003e, have an equal number or votes,\n and thus the House or Representatives must\n decide the issue; Marshall aces not care\n which way the election goes, but \"witnesses\n the anxiety of parties;\" suspects the\n contest will be decided by South Carolina;\n even it Jefferson wins, Burr probably \"will\n not surrender...all his pretensions to the\n office;\" is chagrined by the late Federalist\n defeat and blames unfaithful men like Mr.\n [Marston?] or Rhode Island who threw away\n their votes, as attributed in the letters to\n \u003cabbr expan=\"General Alexander Hamilton\"\u003e\n General [Alexander]\n Hamilton's\u003c/abbr\u003epamphlet; the treaty with\n France is before the Senate; \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Chief Justice Oliver Ellsworth\"\u003e\n Chief Justice [Oliver] Ellsworth\u003c/abbr\u003ehas\n resigned and \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Mr. John Jay\"\u003eMr. [John]\n Jay\u003c/abbr\u003ehas been nominated in his place;\n looks forward to returning to Richmond in\n March and leaving behind forever his\n political career.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAn expression of the sentiments or\n respect which accompanied Vanderburgh's\n presidential commission to become a judge of\n Indiana Territory.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses the probable policies of the new\n [Jefferson] administration; they will\n strengthen the state governments at the expense\n of the Federal, transferring as many powers to\n the House of Representatives as possible; the\n cabinet will probably consist of \n \u003cabbr expan=\"James Madison\"\u003e[James]\n Madison\u003c/abbr\u003eas Secretary of State, \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Henry Dearbourne\"\u003e[Henry]\n Dearbourne\u003c/abbr\u003e[sic] as Secretary of War, \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Albert Gellatin\"\u003e[Albert]\n Gellatin\u003c/abbr\u003eor \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Abraham Baldwin\"\u003e[Abraham]\n Baldwin\u003c/abbr\u003eas Secretary of the Treasury,\n maybe \n \u003cabbr expan=\"General Robert Smith\"\u003eGeneral\n [Robert] Smith\u003c/abbr\u003eas Secretary of the Navy,\n and \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Levi Lincoln\"\u003e[Levi]\n Lincoln\u003c/abbr\u003eor Mr. Livingstone [Robert R.\n Livingston] as Attorney General; many of\n Jefferson's party are disposed to press on to\n war, but the government will probably excite as\n much hate and resentment as possible amongst\n the people against England without proceeding\n to actual hostilities; the ill conduct of the\n British cruisers and Vice Admiralty and the\n remonstrances of American merchants well serves\n this purpose; delay the completion of your\n mission until you hear from the new\n administration as the present agreement with\n the British would not be ratified.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of ALS. 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccepts his [Thomas Jefferson's] offer to\n administer the Presidential oath of office to\n him.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBeing sued by Virginia on a bond of security\n which he signed for Daniel Brodhead several\n years ago, Marshall has learned that the\n recipient of this letter was acquainted with\n the advertisements which Brodhead was required\n to post; he sends him a commission, therefore,\n and asks for his and Colonel Anderson's\n depositions concerning Brodhead and his\n business.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIs composing a history of General\n Washington's life and requests information\n about the war in the Southern states, because\n General [?] Lincoln's letters to Washington in\n his [John Marshall's] possession do not tell\n much about the combined Franco-American\n operations at Savannah in 1779; send any\n important particulars respecting the siege of\n Charleston; is disgusted with the political\n world and hopes to see him [Charles Cotesworth\n Pinckney] in Richmond soon; asks about the\n political climate of South Carolina and thinks\n federalism may prevail in three districts in\n Virginia's state elections.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses the mild but rainy weather and\n mentions various calamities which have befallen\n him: \"15 silver dollars\" of his \"had worn\n through\" his pocket \"and sought their liberty\n in the sands of Carolina;\" and when his man\n Peter unpacked his clothes, he discovered that\n he had not packed any of Marshall's breeches;\n \"I thought I shou'd be sans culotte only one\n day,\" but all the town's were too busy to work\n for him; \"I have the extreme mortification to\n pass the whole term without that important\n article of dress...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding Pst of ALS. 3 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThanks him for an oration which he sent on\n the death of Alexander Hamilton; hopes that\n Hamilton's death will cast some odium upon\n dueling; was not aware that he had played a\n part in producing the commercial meet in\n Baltimore; did not know he resigned the\n emoluments of his military service.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas received his [John Marshall's] November\n 2 letter requesting information for his [John\n Marshall's] history of General Washington's\n life, and will send his recollections of many\n transactions as soon as he can put them to\n paper; he [John Marshall] should also contact\n Colonel [Bushrod] Washington; will send the\n book \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eCampaigns of 1780 and\n 1781\u003c/title\u003e, supposedly written with [?]\n Tarleton's assistance, which contains more\n official documents than any other work and\n correct plans of some of the actions, if it\n will be of any use.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArrived at her mother's yesterday, and found\n her not as well as he had hoped; her sisters\n are well; forgot to pay his brother Charles\n five dollars for his [John Marshall] son John's\n schooling; things are badly conducted at his\n [John Marshall's] plantation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses the problems of the Fairfax lands\n and the people of Winchester; will endeavor to\n raise a considerable part of the money required\n for payment.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of ALS. 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsks for the money which he [John Ambler]\n owes him for payment for land; needs it to make\n his [John Marshall's] payment to Mr. [?]\n Fairfax, which fact he [John Ambler] knew; his\n [John Marshall's] brother William will take the\n contract off his [John Ambler's] hands if\n desired.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTakes no offense at his [John Marshall]\n printing of his [John Adams] letters to \n \u003cabbr expan=\"General Washington\"\u003eGen[era]l\n Washington\u003c/abbr\u003ein his [John Marshall's]\n biography of Washington; in detailing the\n events of the last years of Washington's life,\n he [John Marshall] \"will run the gauntlet\n between two influential factions, armed with\n scorpions...;\" but such an investigation must\n be made; comments upon his [John Adams]\n appointing \n \u003cabbr expan=\"General Washington\"\u003eGen[era]l\n Washington\u003c/abbr\u003eto head of the army.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas received his [James Markham Marshall's]\n letter enclosing Col. Thurston's deed; did not\n hear about his [James Markham Marshall's] suit\n with Stevens; Fitzhugh's note is in [?]\n Williams' hand but has yet to get process\n executed on him as he stays at different places\n in Maryland and can't be easily found;\n discusses arrangements made for their nephew\n Tom, with their brother William.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses politics and report of Mr. [?]\n Chesnut that the Democratic Party in South\n Carolina would unquestionably support him\n [Charles Cotesworth Pinckney]; the late\n convention at New York confided that \"unless\n this point can be gained...we [the Federalists]\n shall again miscarry;\" no times have been more\n perilous than the present because of the\n internal changes wrought \"by a party always\n hostile to our constitution\" and because of\n even greater external threats; if the present\n foreign policy with France is continued, the\n United States \"will soon become an empty name\"\n and will no longer be independent; has spent\n his time on agricultural pursuits instead of\n professional duty, and scarcely ever reads a\n newspaper, but the nation's troubles are too\n serious for him to continue to do so; the\n Virginia Federalists may win three or four\n seats in the next Congress, but there is no\n hope for the presidential election.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRequests him to pay James Brown one thousand\n dollars when his [John Marshall's] quarterly\n salary accrues on October 1.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRichmond Federalists have mutinied, and have\n recommended to their brethren throughout\n Virginia to support the Monroe ticket; was out\n of town but attempts to explain the reasons for\n such action.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIs honored to be chosen as a corresponding\n member of the Massachusetts Historical Society;\n as he will not return to Washington, [D.C.]\n until February, perhaps some member of Congress\n might find room in his baggage for the volume\n he [John Eliot] mentioned.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsks him to send the collections of the\n Society.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses arrangements being made with Mr.\n [?] Willing and [?] Francis to take his [John\n Marshall] two sons, [John and James Keith\n Marshall], into their counting house when they\n reach the age of 16; outlines their recommended\n course of study before then; Mr. [?] Waln[?]\n will receive his [John Marshall] other son,\n [Edward Carrington Marshall], into his\n mercantile establishment, if the precarious\n state of the country: commerce permits it, when\n he comes of age; asks if he should send his\n [John Marshall] half-pipe of wine to Richmond\n by way of Norfolk.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding Ph. 1 page. Incomplete.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAcknowledges letters of Apr. 22, 29, and 30.\n Outlines patents to Virginia land. Philip\n Pendleton, Anderson, and Hunter involved in\n caveat; advises against use of treasury warrant\n for 1,180 acres. Colston. Decision in Hunter\n and Fairfax case, decided in favor of Hunter.\n Asks Lee's opinion as to appeal to Supreme\n Court; John Marshall favors appeal; sending\n record; Jones to be engaged as attorney to help\n Lee. Cause precedent for pending caveats if\n Supreme Court \"against us,\" save expense; if\n \"in our favor,\" probably respected or ascertain\n points for ultimate determination \"in our\n favor.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIs gratified by the compliments he [John\n Marshall] paid to him in his last letter, and\n hopes to continue his service to the country;\n has not learned if [?] Serruier is charged with\n any special orders to the government; [?]\n Turreau has for some time desired to return to\n France; asks him [John Marshall] for a proper\n statement of an anecdote concerning Temple\n Franklin and Benjamin Franklin Bache's\n unsuccessful attempts to establish a newspaper,\n which he [John Marshall] related to him last\n year.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding Pst of ALS. 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUpon his return from the \"laborious\n relaxation\" of his farm, he found the\n President's [Madison] message, the report of\n the committee of foreign relations, and the\n declaration of war against Great Britain.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccepts his invitation to dine with him.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccepts his invitation to dine with him on\n Wednesday.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCannot direct the special court he [Littleon\n Wailer Tazewell] requested because the law\n authorizing a circuit judge to perform the\n duties of a district judge is limited only to\n the case of the disability of an existing\n district judge, and does not extend to the case\n of a vacancy of that office; has notified the\n Secretary of State of the public hardships if\n an appointment is postponed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceived a copy of his book, Historical\n Letters, and asks Mr. [?] Pleasant to sign him\n up as a subscriber; comments favorably upon the\n work, a comparative history of the nations of\n the world.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceived his cheek for $500 and letter upon\n his [John Marshall] return from North Carolina;\n will receive four sets of \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Life of\n Washington\u003c/title\u003efrom \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Mr. Mason Locke Weems\"\u003eMr. [Mason\n Locke] Weems\u003c/abbr\u003e; discusses a case of\n Admiralty business which he had just heard in\n circuit court and asks for his [Bushrod\n Washington] opinion; is anxious to terminate\n next court's business so he can devote himself\n to the farm.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of ALS. 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses whether the power to pass\n bankruptcy laws resides in the states or in the\n federal government; discusses part of\n Constitution which inhibits passage of \"law\n impairing the obligation of contracts\" and how\n it relates to bankruptcy laws; says he [Bushrod\n Washington] heard the argument and his opinion\n could be relied upon better than his.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsks what provision is made for them at\n their session; will he make accommodations for\n them; asks \"Are we to have peace; or is the war\n to be continued till we are dismembered?\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsks him [Bushrod Washington] to ask the\n counting house of Messrs. Willing \u0026amp; Francis\n if they are still willing to take his [John\n Marshall] fifteen year old son James (now a\n student at Cambridge) into their firm.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas made inquiries in response to his\n letter; land for which taxes are unpaid before\n August will be sold; payment can be made to the\n Sheriff of the county; discusses George\n Washington letters and how he thinks they\n should be published; asks him to settle a\n newspaper account for him.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEncloses a copy of a letter from Robert\n Colston in which he [Robert Colston] complains\n of his [John Ambler's] withholding payment and\n threatens him John Ambler] with a lawsuit;\n suggests that he [John Ambler] give Mr. Colston\n an order on Mr. [?] Smith for the amount in\n question with as little delay as possible.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses civil admiralty jurisdiction about\n which he had formed an opinion from the\n characters in a case of piracy not from\n precedent; wishes him to discuss revision of \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003e\"The Life\" [of George\n Washington]\u003c/title\u003ewith Mr. Wayne while he is\n in Philadelphia; explains his ideas for the\n organization of the work; says it must be\n prepared at leisure and not offered until there\n is a demand for it.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEncloses a memorandum from the Auditors'\n office concerning William Marshall's lands in\n Nason and Franklin counties, [Kentucky], and a\n letter which he wishes delivered to his sister\n [Jane (Marshall) Taylor]; she desired him to\n engage a house for her at Fauquier Court\n House.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEncloses a memorandum from the Filson club.\n 2 pages. Including TCy of ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAfter reading the recipient's address to the\n New York Historical Society, he sends him his\n thoughts on the study of history.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses the Washington social life; is\n impressed with the French minister and his wife\n [?]; \n \u003cabbr expan=\"William Wirt\"\u003e[William]\n Wirt\u003c/abbr\u003earrived yesterday but he brought no\n letters; warns her to take enough blankets to\n arm herself against the intense cold when she\n goes to Chiccahoniiny [sic] on February 21.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding Pat of ALS. 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsks Marshall to administer the Presidential\n oath to him.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding Pst of ALS. 1 page. Also including\n TCy of ALS. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAgrees to administer the Presidential oath\n of office to James Monroe.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding Ph. neg. of ALS. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas read in \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Jaquelin Marshall\"\u003eJaquelin\n [Marshall]'s\u003c/abbr\u003elast letter news of her ill\n health, and advises her not to expose herself\n to the cold in her fears of being too warm; he\n is in good health and is busily employed. 1\n page. ALS. Including ALS on verso from John\n Marshall, to his son [John?], discussing farm\n matters, and asking him to receive the\n overseer's letter concerning such things as\n preparing the soil with plaster of paris\n grubbing, cutting, and burning; does not want\n him to send packages by post, but by private\n conveyance if available; sends him a note for\n $60 to pay Mr.[?] Cocke for 20 barrels of corn;\n asks about \n \u003cabbr expan=\"James Keith Marshall\"\u003eJames [Keith\n Marshall]\u003c/abbr\u003eand hopes he has engaged in a\n course of reading.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlso Including TCy of ALS. l page. Also\n Including Pst of ALS. 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEncloses a letter from \n \u003cabbr expan=\"General Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette\"\u003e\n General [Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du\n Motier, Marquis de] Lafayette\u003c/abbr\u003e, which he\n has been unable to deliver in person, as the\n General had instructed; saw \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Judge Bushrod Washington\"\u003eJuge\n [sic] [Bushrod] Washington\u003c/abbr\u003eseveral months\n earlier, and was informed by him that Mr. [?]\n Graham returned to Lafayette the General's\n papers, which Marshall had borrowed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding ALS, 22 April 1817, from \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Marquis de Lafayette\"\u003e[Marquis de]\n Lafayette\u003c/abbr\u003e, La grange, [France], to John\n Marshall, United States, Virginia. Introducing\n his friend M. des Caves; praises Marshall's\n biography of Washington and says that most of\n his correspondence with Washington was lost\n during the French Revolution; mentions the\n copies of Washington's letters to him, which he\n desires to be returned to him by Bushrod\n Washington; recommends M. desCaves to him [John\n Marshall].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of ALS. 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIs unable to accept his invitation to dine\n with him because of his health.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRequests that his case before the \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Supreme Court\"\u003e[Supreme]\n Court\u003c/abbr\u003ebe given a day's respite as the\n extremes of weather have incapacitated him.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas received and finally read the address\n which he presented to the New York\n Historical Society; was much pleased with\n its clarity and lucid arrangement, and feels\n the public would like to see more from his\n pen.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsks for information about nail making\n machines in Boston, for a friend of his who\n might like to purchase one; the opinion in\n the Banks case \"has roused the sleeping\n spirit of Virginia\" and will be attacked in\n the papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsks him to purchase books for his [John\n Marshall] nephew, [?] Taylor who is at\n school in Kentucky; makes arrangements to\n pay the bookseller and [?] Deiplaine, and to\n have him send the volumes, including \" \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eTerence [sic] \u0026amp;\n Livy in Latin, Longinus\u003c/title\u003e, \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThucydides, \u0026amp;\n Demosthenes in Greek\u003c/title\u003e, also \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eXenophens retreat of\n the 10,000\u003c/title\u003e\" to his [John Marshall]\n brother, \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Doctor Louis Marshall\"\u003eDoctor\n [Louis] Marshall\u003c/abbr\u003e, in Kentucky;\n discusses dissatisfaction of Virginian\n politicians with the Supreme Court's opinion\n on the Bank question; \"we shall be denounced\n bitterly in the papers... and we shall\n undoubtedly be condemned as a pack of\n consolidating aristocratics;\" mentions\n unexpected and long unheard of financial\n distress of Richmond merchants.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of ALS. 1 page. Also\n including Pst of ALS. 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExtracted from a letter of Joseph Story's\n to John Marshall describing a $1000\n nail-making machine invented by Mr. [?]\n Perkins, and used extensively in the\n Amesbury Factory near Salem, Massachusetts;\n also describes two different, less expensive\n models patented by Mr. [?] Reed [?], and\n discusses arrangements for their sale and\n delivery.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses an error in his published\n manuscript [of a court decision?] which he\n [John Marshall] wishes Mr. [ ] Bronson to\n correct.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of ALS. 1 page. Including\n Pst of ALS. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses the gross misrepresentations\n the Democratic-Republicans have attributed\n to the Court's opinion in the Bank case in\n order to excite ferment in the masses; asks\n his advice on a case in Admiralty Court,\n that the \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eLittle\n Charles\u003c/title\u003e, libeled for violating the\n 1808 Embargo Act.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIf the publication of his [John Marshall]\n work has not yet commenced, he would rather\n have the signature changed to \"A\n Constitutionalist\"; the letters of\n Amphyction and of Hampden have had more\n influence in the country than in Richmond;\n hopes some respectable legislators will\n refute them.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eQuestions him [Joseph Story] about an\n admiralty case concerning the hypothecation\n of a vessel belonging to the port of\n Richmond; discusses legal principles of\n hypothecation in general in the United\n States; does not think that a piece in the\n Boston papers should be republished, Mr. [?]\n Wheaton's appendix; leaves the opinion in\n the militia case for him [Joseph Story] to\n write.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses the legal principles of\n hypothecation and maritime law as he [Joseph\n Story] sees them in regards to a case in New\n York, and concludes that the chief-question\n is \"whether the ports of the different\n states are to be deemed foreign ports in\n respect to the rights of the hypothecation\n or of implied lien\"; in his [Joseph Story]\n district, as well as in South Carolina,\n Maryland, Pennsylvania, and New York, they\n are; he [Joseph Story] \"is open to argument\n and will follow in a better path. And as the\n advancement of the law, and not merely of\n our private opinions should be the great\n ambition of all judges, I am quite content\n to yield to the judgement of others.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMentions a trial at Richmond for piracy\n and discusses the lack of international law\n regarding the same; writes of his\n subscription to Mr. Bronson's \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eGazette of the United\n States\u003c/title\u003ewhich has become the \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eUnion\u003c/title\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses constitutional issues involving\n piracy, the slave trade, and the Supreme Court;\n mentions \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Littleton Waller Tazewell\"\u003e\n [Littleton Waller] Tazewell\u003c/abbr\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas not formed an opinion of the case which\n was remanded to the circuit court of\n Pennsylvania; congratulates him on the prospect\n of a full docket in \n \u003cabbr expan=\"New Jersey\"\u003e[New] Jersey\u003c/abbr\u003eand\n upon his empty one in North Carolina; he called\n on Mr. Blair, the President of the Bible\n Society, who says he [Bushrod Washington] was a\n permanent member of the society and in arrears\n for the years 1816-1819; was frozen on the \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eRosaline\u003c/title\u003e, has\n scarcely thawed out.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHopes none of the papers of George\n Washington have miscarried; sent the last ones\n to him [Bushrod Washington] by a coal vessel of\n Alexandria; has employed a person to copy the\n pre-Revolutionary letters of General\n Washington, and he [John Marshall] will himself\n copy the military letters in his possession\n after he [Bushrod Washington] informs him in\n which volume they will be published; he [John\n Marshall] will also proceed to copy the letters\n written between the close of the war and the\n adoption of the constitution, and has retained\n no others.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of ALS. 1 page. Including Pst\n of ALS. 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEncloses an affidavit stating that he [John\n Marshall] lost the certification meant for \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Thomas Marshall\"\u003eT[homas?]\n Marshall\u003c/abbr\u003eand asks him [Bushrod\n Washington] to send from Philadelphia a bond to\n be executed; has received from Mr. Ward of\n Salem a copy of a letter written by \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Mr. William Fairfax\"\u003eMr. W[illia]m\n Fairfax\u003c/abbr\u003eto Capt. Clarke of Salem dated\n Belvoir 22d. February 1749, which states that\n \"Major Washington [has] just returned from\n London whither he lately went to get his\n arrears of pay \u0026amp; be put on the\n establishment of half pay...\" concludes that\n this cannot be George Washington; poses\n questions about George Washington's genealogy;\n asks him [Bushrod Washington] to talk with the\n editor of Langhornes' Plutarch while in\n Philadelphia about an anecdote concerning\n George Washington selling his old charger.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of ALS. 1 page. Including Pst\n of ALS. 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses Mr. Moorehead's purchase of Mr.\n Johnson's land in Fauquier County; wheat and\n other crops are doing well.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes being thrown by a horse; will\n bring the letters they agreed to copy to\n Washington; wishes him to speak again with Mr.\n Wayne about a second edition of the life of \n \u003cabbr expan=\"George Washington\"\u003e[George]\n Washington\u003c/abbr\u003e; recommends that \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Mr. Mason Locke Weems\"\u003eMr. [Mason\n Locke] Weems\u003c/abbr\u003ehave a subscription paper\n for the letters and life at the same time;\n thinks they should reduce the charges on the\n life to half a dollar per volume, then the\n second volume might be sold for two dollars a\n volume.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHopes his [Bushrod Washington] health will\n improve so he can come visit at the end of the\n month so they can deliver opinions on various\n cases including the one from Virginia \"which\n has exerted so much commotion in our\n legislature\" [a case involving an act of\n Congress allowing a lottery in Washington, D.C.\n with ticket sales in Virginia contrary to\n Virginia law. See JK/159l/V5/Rare Book\n (Virginia)/].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA letter of \n \u003cabbr expan=\"James Keith Marshall\"\u003eJames [Keith\n Marshall]'s\u003c/abbr\u003einformed him [John Marshall]\n of her return from Chicahominy; hopes that the\n celebrations of the 22nd did not disturb her\n too much; \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Judge Bushrod Washington\"\u003eJudge\n [Bushrod] Washington\u003c/abbr\u003eis not well; he\n [John Marshall] is very busy at Court; dines\n out frequently and eats too much; does not\n attend the continual gay parties in Washington.\n 2 pages. ALS. Including ALS on verso from John\n Marshall to his son [James Keith Marshall],\n asking about the health of Jacob, one of the\n slaves; tells him to purchase as much clover\n seed as he can if he does not get the money\n from [?] Smith.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding Pst of ALS. 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHopes his health was not injured by his\n traveling to Philadelphia to perform his\n circuit duties; mentions case in his circuit\n involving merchants indebted to the U.S. on\n duty bonds; recommends the writings of Algernon\n Sidney.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsks his opinion of legalities of a case\n concerning insolvency and priority of payment\n to creditors; the Supreme Court opinion in the\n Lottery case virulently assaulted in the\n newspapers, especially by Algernon Sidney in\n the \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eEnquirer\u003c/title\u003ewho is\n \"supposed to be the champion of the state\n rights.. .[but] really is the champion of\n dismemberment;\" is anxious to hear if his\n [Joseph Story] and \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Daniel Webster\"\u003e[Daniel]\n Webster's\u003c/abbr\u003eamendment to the Massachusetts\n constitution was approved by the people or\n not.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses legal principles of partnership,\n joint property and the priority of the payment\n of debts under English and American bankruptcy\n laws; writes of the federal government; reports\n on the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention;\n will send on the next vessel for Richmond some\n Salem fish and a recipe on how to cook\n them.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThanks him for his opinion on the case on\n which he [John Marshall] consulted him; has\n enclosed the letter from \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Mr. James Madison\"\u003eMr. [James]\n Madison\u003c/abbr\u003eto Genl. Washington which he\n [John Marshall] had selected last winter but\n forgot to send; discusses the legal matter of\n inland and foreign bills and hypothecation\n relating to the New York case.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TyC of ALS. 1 page. Including Pst\n of ALS. 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIs grateful for his expressions of esteem;\n hopes the harmony of the bench will never be\n disturbed; discusses \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Thomas Jefferson\"\u003e[Thomas]\n Jefferson's\u003c/abbr\u003eand \n \u003cabbr expan=\"James Madison\"\u003e[James]\n Madison's\u003c/abbr\u003edoubts of the Supreme Court as\n the ultimate arbiter of the constitutional\n questions; comments upon Jefferson's character\n and influence over the people; encloses\n Algernon Sidney's essays with their weak\n argument and violent language; in the Virginian\n newspapers \"not a pen is drawn in support of\n the sound principles of the constitution of the\n Union... I look elsewhere for safety.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas received the fish and will cook it\n according to instructions; discusses Mr. [?]\n Hall and his intended publication of Algernon\n Sidney's essays and asks if he [Joseph Story]\n can prevent it; Mr. [?] Caedwell has not yet\n sent the volume of the debates of the\n Massachusetts Constitutional Convention;\n discusses the designs of the\n Democratic-Republicans in attacking the Supreme\n Court; questions him about a case involving\n William McKinly, a tax collector, and his\n depositions.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsks him to join him at dinner on Tuesday at\n 4 o'clock.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMakes arrangements for his [Littleton Waller\n Tazewell's] deposition to be taken on 23 May;\n if \n \u003cabbr expan=\"General Robert Barraud Taylor\"\u003e\n General [Robert Barraud] Taylor\u003c/abbr\u003eand Mr.\n [?] Blair are out of town, send for magistrates\n and have the necessary steps taken.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas received the President's message to\n Congress concerning internal improvements, \"a\n question which very much divides the opinions\n of intelligent men;\" \"a general power over\n internal improvements, if to be exercised by\n the Union, would certainly be cumbersome to the\n government, \u0026amp; of no utility to the people.\n But to the extent you recommend, it would be\n productive of no mischief, and of great good;\"\n he [John Marshall] despairs that such a measure\n will be adopted.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of ALS. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas found in the Journal of the House of\n Delegates that the bill for confiscating Lord\n Fairfax's estate passed in January 1786, but\n was defeated in the Senate; discusses the role\n of the Supreme Court in deciding cases relating\n to treaties; will not be at Happy Creek before\n 6 August; will also visit Cumberland, Mr.\n Colston's and maybe Bath.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of ALS. 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGrants power of attorney to him [Benjamin\n Watkyns [sic] Leigh] to make or endorse any\n notes given by Edward Colston, James Marshall\n or \n \u003cabbr expan=\"James Markham Marshall\"\u003eJames\n M[arkham] Marshall\u003c/abbr\u003efor the purpose of\n paying a debt to the Bank of the United States\n due from Nimrod Farrow or from the estate of \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Turner Dixon\"\u003eTurner [?]\n Dixon\u003c/abbr\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsked Mr. [?] Williams about the information\n he [Jaquelin B. Harrie] desired; he [Williams]\n wrote that he gave his letter to the delegate\n from Florida, who has yet to answer it.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of ALS. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses his trip from Richmond and the\n rainy weather; did not find Mr. [?] Skinker at\n home, so arrived last night at his friend's \n \u003cabbr expan=\"General Blackwell\"\u003eGeneral [?]\n Blackwell's\u003c/abbr\u003e, who is almost blind; Tom\n [Thomas Marshall] was there earlier\n electioneering; the election will be closer\n than he [John Marshall] had originally\n thought.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of ALS. 1 page. Also including\n Pst of ALS. 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMet his son, \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Edward Carrington Marshall\"\u003eEdward\n C[arrington] Marshall\u003c/abbr\u003e; introduced him to\n several gentlemen in Boston, and recommended\n him to the President of Harvard College; made\n arrangements for him [Edward Carrington\n Marshall] to live in Cambridge and to be\n tutored until rooms at the College are assigned\n after commencement; discusses his [Edward\n Carrington Marshall] expenses; takes great\n pleasure in aiding him in all measures;\n discusses his [John Marshall] latest decision\n on the Cashier of the Branch Bank of the United\n States; is anxious about the appointment of \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Supreme Court Judge Henry B. Livingston\"\u003e\n [Supreme Court] Judge [Henry B.]\n Livingston's\u003c/abbr\u003esuccessor.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThanks him for his friendly attentions to\n his [John Marshall's] son, [Edward Carrington\n Marshall]; gives his opinion of the case of the\n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eBank of the United\n States v. Dandridge\u003c/title\u003e; alarmed at the\n rumored successor of their \"much lamented\n friend\" [Supreme Court Justice Henry B.\n Livingston].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses libels against his father, John\n Lowell, and against himself; encloses letters\n to editors printed in local papers in\n defense.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding NCls. 6 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceived his letters of 25 and 28 October\n and was astonished to learn that he feels he\n [John Marshall] deliberately and unnecessarily\n \"altered expressions which would be construed\n into the imputation of a crime..., against a\n gentleman...\"; there was no evidence in the\n cases decision that his [John Lowell] testimony\n was disregarded or discredited-- \"the opinion\n speaks for itself.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBrother \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Bushrod Washington\"\u003e[Bushrod]\n Washington\u003c/abbr\u003ehad to adjourn the court at\n Philadelphia because of his illness; discusses\n a case on his [John Marshall's] circuit\n concerning the American ship, \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003ePilot\u003c/title\u003e, captured\n by pirates and later recaptured by a squadron\n under \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Commodore David Porter\"\u003eCommodore\n [David] Porter\u003c/abbr\u003e; comments upon the\n extreme bitterness of \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Mr. John Adams\"\u003eMr. [John]\n Adams\u003c/abbr\u003e, whom he still respects, and the\n publication of some of his correspondence.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceived the President's message to\n Congress, and thanks him for his mark of polite\n attention; he [John Marshall] too thinks that\n \"we cannot look on the present state of the\n world with indifference.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of ALS. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThanks him for the report of the Secretary\n of the Treasury.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWas uneasy that she heard of his accident\n before his letter reached her; his fall has\n kept him from court longer than he had\n expected; feels pain only when he moves;\n doctors say he is mending faster than they had\n expected; is treated with a great deal of\n kindness and attention; wives of the cabinet\n members call on him; passes the long hours of\n the night by thinking of her and their early\n life together.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding Pst of ALS. 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWill soon return to Richmond by steamboat;\n makes arrangements to have his servant, Oby,\n meet him at the dock to carry his portmanteau;\n is not able to use his arm; was surprised to\n see \n \u003cabbr expan=\"John Marshall and Elizabeth (Alexander) Marshall\"\u003e\n John and Elizabeth [(Alexander)\n Marshall]\u003c/abbr\u003e, who were in town because the\n boat on which they traveled was being repaired,\n and they were making their way to Baltimore by\n stage.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding Pst of ALS. 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMissed seeing him at Hanover Court House on\n Monday, presumably because of the cloudiness of\n the weather; will be there next court day to\n meet him unless it is inconvenient, in which\n case he [Tom] should let him [John Marshall]\n know immediately.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas just finished reading the copy of his\n \"Dissertation on the Nature and Extent of the\n Jurisdiction of the Courts of the United\n States,\" which he sent to him [John Marshall];\n thanks him for the flattering manner in which\n he discusses some of his [John Marshall]\n opinions.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThanks for sending a copy of his message to\n Congress; regrets that he [Monroe] is retiring,\n but congratulates him on his presidency.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of ALS. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReached Washington yesterday and paid his\n accustomed visit to the President; he [John\n Marshall] occupies the same room as last year;\n neither \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Judge William Johnson\"\u003eJudge\n [William] Johnson\u003c/abbr\u003enor \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Joseph Story\"\u003e[Joseph]\n Story\u003c/abbr\u003ehas arrived, and \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Thomas Todd\"\u003e[Thomas]\n Todd\u003c/abbr\u003eis close to death; the roads were so\n good for the winter, he was glad he did not\n take the steamboat; rode from Hanover\n Courthouse to Fredericksburg with a Mrs.\n (Booth) Stone; dined with his aunt [?] Keith on\n Sunday; his nephew, William Marshall, visited\n him on Saturday; hopes that Mr. [?] Picket has\n filled the ice house already.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding Pst of AL. 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses presidential election of 1824;\n ascribes it to the letters of [?] Kremer and to\n Mr. [?] Vanraensaeller's reluctant last-minute\n vote for [John Quincy] Adams; speculates about\n the Cabinet; including Mr. [?] Crawford's\n refusal of the Treasury, and \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Henry Clay\"\u003e[Henry]\n Clay's\u003c/abbr\u003erumored acceptance of the State\n Department.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of ALS. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas received letters from his son and from\n his nephew, George [?], and has learned of the\n marriage of his [John Marshall] nephew, Edward\n Colston, who has moved to Honeywood, [Berkeley\n County, Virginia]; asks her to inform Mr. [?]\n Cole that he [John Marshall] has received his\n new black suit, and that \n \u003cabbr expan=\"George Kremer\"\u003e[George]\n Kremer\u003c/abbr\u003ewill soon print \"a most scurrilous\n piece of abuse against \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Henry Clay\"\u003e[Henry] Clay\u003c/abbr\u003e[an\n anonymous letter in the \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eColumbia\n Observer\u003c/title\u003eaccusing him of bargaining with\n John Quincy Adams to give his support in the\n presidential election in return for the office\n of Secretary of State]; her [Mary Willis Ambler\n Marshall] cousin, Mrs. [?] Walker, thanked him\n for his check and the subscription raised for\n her by the members of Congress.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding Pst of AL. 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsks him to accept a copy of his\n [Marshall's] colonial history; congratulations\n him on the successful termination of his\n political career.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIs much honored by his election to the\n Bunker Hill Monument Association and asks what\n his membership will entail.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas received his letters and documents\n stating his [Monroe's] claims on the U.S.;\n expects that he [Monroe] will receive as much\n as has ever been allowed to others for similar\n services.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of ALS. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThanks her for her letter recommending [?]\n Caldwell, but he has already pledged himself to\n another person seeking office.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of ALS. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn response to his [John Marshall's]\n requests in his last letter, he [John Sergeant]\n is enclosing copies of Mr. [?] Giles' speech\n found in Dunlap and Claypoole's 16 December\n 1796 paper and in the \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eAurora\u003c/title\u003eof the\n 15th sources located at the [?] Library; and\n germane to his biography of Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThanks him for a copy of his [John\n Marshall's] history of the English colonies\n of North America which Joseph Story\n delivered a few weeks earlier; quotes Lord\n Kames [?] from his \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Gentleman\n Farmer\u003c/title\u003e(1779); \"I disregard the\n present rebellion of our Americans; for they\n will soon be reduced to obedience;\"\n discusses present westward movement of the\n American population and predicts a new\n western confederacy of the movement of the\n national capital westward in the next\n generation; comments upon his [John\n Marshall's] statements on slavery,\n mentioning \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Colonel Edward Carrington\"\u003e\n Colonel [Edward] Carrington's\u003c/abbr\u003eand \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Mr. Thomas Jefferson\"\u003eMr.\n [Thomas] Jefferson's\u003c/abbr\u003eviews on\n miscegenation and the Colonization Society's\n efforts; discusses Georgia's \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Governor George M. Troup\"\u003e\n Governor [George M.] Troup's\u003c/abbr\u003edetested\n views on the slaves and Creek Indians, which\n seem to be held by most Georgians, who would\n defy the authority of the Union if they\n dared; that authority rests on \"the purity,\n the intellegence and the firmness\" of the\n Supreme Court; hopes he [John Marshall] long\n remains at the head.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas read \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Mr. William Branch Giles\"\u003eMr.\n [William Branch] Giles'\u003c/abbr\u003elatest article\n in the \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eRichmond\n Enquirer\u003c/title\u003eon John Quincy Adams, which\n attributes his [John Quincy Adams's] \"past\n conversion to \n \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003e\n Jeffersonism\u003c/emph\u003e\" to \" \n \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003ehis own personal\n promotion and aggrandizement;\u003c/emph\u003e\" Giles\n claims that Adams' message indicated his\n intentions to introduce unlimited powers\n into the government, but he [Timothy\n Pickering] disagrees; discusses Adams'\n policies regarding internal improvements, a\n national university, and the promotion of\n agriculture, all of which Washington\n recommended, and their constitutionality;\n discusses Giles, his character, and his\n political ambitions; writes of James\n Monroe's and William Pinckney's treaty with\n Great Britain and their letter to Congress,\n Monroe's bid for the Presidency, and his\n subsequent reconciliation with Jefferson;\n mentions Secretary of the State Robert\n Smith's correspondence with the British\n Minister [?] Jackson; his resignation, and\n published defense; discusses the death of\n Virginian U.S. District Court Judge Cyrus\n Griffin and the appointment of his successor\n John Tyler, ex-Governor of Virginia; which\n was made to make room for Monroe as\n Governor; Monroe was appointed to the State\n Department, \"the vestibule to the\n President's Palace,\" when Smith resigned;\n discusses Jefferson's motives for not laying\n the treaty with Great Britain before\n Congress; concludes with Joseph Hopkinson's\n thoughts on Jefferson, Madison, and\n Monroe.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLeft Alexandria for Washington a day\n early because the weather was good for\n traveling; he, \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Bushrod Washington\"\u003e[Bushrod]\n Washington\u003c/abbr\u003e, and \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Gabriel Duval\"\u003e[Gabriel]\n Duval\u003c/abbr\u003eawait the arrival of their\n brother \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Justice Joseph Story\"\u003eJustices\n [Joseph] Story\u003c/abbr\u003eand \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Jutice Smith Thompson\"\u003e[Smith]\n Thompson\u003c/abbr\u003e; Judge Johnson went by way\n of Norfolk and will not arrive till\n Wednesday or Thursday; \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Judge Thomas Todd\"\u003eJudge\n [Thomas] Todd\u003c/abbr\u003eis unable to make the\n journey; discusses his journey and health:\n \"I am under the persecution of the\n infuenza;\" will open the court and wait on\n the President tomorrow.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding Pst of ALS. 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses his daily routine and his\n health; \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Judge Joseph Story\"\u003e[Judge\n Joseph] Story\u003c/abbr\u003earrived today; he was\n delayed a week in Philadelphia by influenza;\n discusses a loan of $200 to Tom [Thomas\n Marshall, his son]; has received three\n invitations for dinner parties this week;\n discusses the gaiety of the Washington\n social scene; jests about Lucy Fisher [his\n niece] marrying [Dr. Daniel Norborne Norton]\n and persuading him to run for Congress.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cabbr expan=\"John Marshall\"\u003eJohn [Marshall,\n his son]\u003c/abbr\u003epassed through the city, but\n he did not have a chance to see him; was\n pleased to hear that she was well, expecting\n \"the uncommon warmth of the season had\n relaxed your system so as to distress your\n feelings;\" he enjoys his usual health; \"was\n at a very great crowd at \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Mrs. John Quincy Adams\"\u003eMrs.\n [John Quincy] Adams'\u003c/abbr\u003edrawing room;\"\n dined yesterday with \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Mr. John Randolph of Roanoke\"\u003e\n Mr. [John] Randolph [of Roanoke]\u003c/abbr\u003ewho\n is as much engaged in party politics as he\n has always been.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding Pst of ALS. 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCongratulates him on his good health;\n gives his thoughts on Southern slavery;\n mentions Georgia's Governor [George M.\n Troup] and the treaty with the Creeks;\n discusses \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Mr. William Branch Giles\"\u003eMr.\n [William Branch] Giles\u003c/abbr\u003e; thanks him\n for his recollections of the events of the\n last twenty years.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas received his letter expressing his\n interest in the position of the clerk of the\n Supreme Court; the applicants are numerous\n and worthy; recalls their former\n acquaintance, and is confident in his\n competence, but wants to make such an\n important appointment \"without any\n pre-engagements.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReplies to his letter recommending Mr.\n [?] Randall for the vacant office in the\n Clerkship of the Supreme Court; discusses\n his feelings regarding the appointment; has\n been having trouble with famine and\n drought.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses marriage arrangements of his\n son \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Edward Carrington Marshall\"\u003e\n Edward [Carrington Marshall]\u003c/abbr\u003ewith the\n Judge's daughter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eApologizes for his last letter of 15\n September 1826; did not realize that he\n [Fay] was opposed to Edward Carrington\n Marshall's marriage to his [Fay's] daughter;\n \"I hope Edward has received notice of your\n decision... It will be [a] kindness to\n awaken him as soon as possible from the\n dreams of happiness in which he has been too\n long indulging.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas finally discovered the letters in the\n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eAurora\u003c/title\u003efrom 23\n October to 5 November 1795 written by the\n \"Calm Observer\" relating to the charge of\n illegal payment of the President's salary\n and the replies thereto by \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Alexander Hamilton\"\u003e[Alexander]\n Hamilton\u003c/abbr\u003eand \n \u003cabbr expan=\"O. Wolcott\"\u003eO.[?]\n Wolcott\u003c/abbr\u003e; these were not written by \n \u003cabbr expan=\"William Branch Giles\"\u003e[William\n Branch] Giles\u003c/abbr\u003e; \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Judge Bushrod Washington\"\u003eJudge\n [Bushrod] Washington\u003c/abbr\u003ehad to break up\n his court because of ill-health.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas received his letter by Mr. [?]\n Doddridge; apologizes for any inconvenience\n which may be caused by the disposal of the\n letters of recommendation which the\n recipient sent by Mr. [?] Rowan and Colonel\n [?] Johnson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses legal principles involved in\n the Fairfax lands case.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of ALS. 4 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas seen in the papers discussions between\n his brother Johnson [?] and him [Timothy\n Pickering] respecting Count Pulaske [Pulaski]\n and the Battle of Germantown; \"with the\n exception of Judge [?] Peters, yourself, \u0026amp; \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Mr. Wolcott\"\u003eMr. [?]\n Wolcot[t]\u003c/abbr\u003eI can scarcely find any person\n who was conspicuous on the great theatre of our\n country when I first began to mix in public\n affairs;\" asks if he will travel south to\n Washington; discusses George Washington and his\n firmness of character.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEncloses a check on the bank of Winchester\n for $600 to be endorsed to Mr. [?] Smith; was\n surprised that the sale of the land was $200\n less than he thought; Alexander Marshall\n informed him [John Marshall] that he settled\n $200 which he owed him with Mr. Smith; finished\n cutting his wheat and rye last week; his corn\n has suffered from the cold wet spring and now\n from drought; discusses weather and crop\n pests.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding Pst of ALS. 3 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses the science of agriculture and\n whether or not it should be taught at a\n university.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas read the review which will be published\n in the forthcoming January 1828 edition of the \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eNorth American\n Review\u003c/title\u003eof his [John Marshall's] \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eHistory of the\n Colonies\u003c/title\u003e; encloses a copy of it; hopes\n to meet him in January and introduce Mrs. Story\n to him.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas received his flattering letter and\n biography of him and warmly expresses his\n gratitude; accommodations for Mrs. Story may be\n had at Mr. [?] Rapine's in Washington;\n discusses the present contest for the\n Presidency; fears that \"our constitution is not\n to be so long lived as its real friends have\n hoped.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThanks him for a copy of his speech on\n \"retrenchment and reform;\" intended to call\n on him, but the pressure of official duties\n and the indolence of age have prevented\n it.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of ALS. 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMust decline his invitation to be his\n companion on the \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003e\n Potomac\u003c/title\u003ebecause of his ill health;\n Mr. [?] Sheppherd has given a good account\n of \"our Jacobin Banker's Clerk\" [?];\n discusses Sheppherd's and the clerk's\n lives.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBegs him to accept his portrait painted\n by \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Mr. Chester Harding\"\u003eMr.\n [Chester] Harding\u003c/abbr\u003ein Washington as a\n token of his sincere and affectionate\n friendship; will not send it to Richmond\n until \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Mr. Horatio Greenough\"\u003eMr.\n [Horatio] Greenough\u003c/abbr\u003ecasts his bust;\n enjoyed a pleasant trip from Washington to\n Richmond where he has seen none but his\n family since his return; the spirit of party\n is extremely bitter, but he plans to leave\n for the upper country; had one of his\n [Joseph Story's] fish yesterday; received\n news from Mr. [?] McGruder of the loss of\n his [John Marshall's] sortout.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTakes the liberty to write him; regrets\n that it was necessary for him [John\n Marshall] to announce publicly his feelings\n on the election, because it will not subject\n him to the abuse of the partisans.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDid not have a chance to answer \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Mr. Chester Harding\"\u003eMr.\n [Chester] Harding's\u003c/abbr\u003eletter asking what\n should be done with his [John Marshall's]\n portrait; if he [Chester Harding] is in\n Boston, have him deliver it to you [Joseph\n Story]; asks him [Joseph Story] to take care\n of it till he [John Marshall] can have it\n and his bust sent to Richmond; discusses how\n the \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003e\n Marylander\u003c/title\u003emisquoted him on the\n coming election; an epidemic has prevailed\n extensively in Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas received his letter and is grateful\n for his kind words; although the still burnt\n Kentucky Whiskey is nauseous to my palate,\n \"I can yet enjoy the aroma of an exquisite\n glass of Madeira, or Paxasete, or Burgundy\n and I doubt whether my head would have been\n more affected by a bottle of Clos Von gedt,\n capped with another of such [silvery?]\n Champagne, than by your truly kind\n note.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses the recipient's proposed\n amendment to a bill before the House of\n Representatives concerning the U.S. Circuit\n Court System.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter declining their honor of joining\n the Richmond and Manchester Sabbath School\n in a 4th of July procession, not because he\n does not believe in the principles inspiring\n it, but because he must leave town due to\n Mrs. Marshall's feeble health; (the letter\n was probably written and signed by a\n secretary).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCannot satisfy his request to send him\n letters with autographs of the Virginian\n signers of the Declaration of Independence\n as they have not been preserved or contain\n private communications; has read and enjoyed\n the sermons he sent; discusses the nature of\n church and state in post-Revolutionary\n Virginia; gratified by his [William B.\n Sprague's] sermon on intemperance and gives\n his [John Marshall's] views on the\n subject.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses a land case concerning Mrs. [?]\n Clarke and Mr. [?] Swan, and Mr. [?]\n Pollard; have no further communications with\n Swan as \"he has no idea of...frank dealing\";\n Mr. [?] Fiske wrote that he can lend money\n for Mrs. [?] Carrington; please send down\n his [John Marshall's] ponies with Charles\n Smith or Mr. [?] Colston.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas just received Mr. [?] Triplett's\n letter and is willing to allow him 20%\n commission on the money he may collect from\n the estate of Mr. [?] Davies [?]; discusses\n arrangements for drawing money on his [John\n Marshall's] account; asks him to pay costs\n incurred in the execution of the above\n matter; discusses election of \n \u003cabbr expan=\"General Andrew Jackson\"\u003eGeneral\n [Andrew] Jackson\u003c/abbr\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMakes arrangements to pay [ ] $1000 to\n Swan for a land purchase.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas received his letter concerning news\n of the birth of \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Margaret(Lewis) Marshall\"\u003e\n Margaret's [(Lewis)\n Marshall]'s\u003c/abbr\u003enephew; mentions health of\n his family, including the children's\n whooping cough; prices in the Alex[andri]a\n flour market and how the dry weather is\n affecting crops; writes of his own\n agricultural efforts, including the\n operation of a large roller for his corn\n fields; has been unable to send down the\n horses; will attend a sale at Westover on\n Mr. [?] Lewis's request; Mr. Lewis, Mr. [?]\n Coiston, and \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Mr. Charles B. Smith\"\u003eMr.\n Cha[rle]s B. Smith\u003c/abbr\u003eare not able to\n take the horses to him [John Marshall] or to\n Aunt [?] Carrington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of ALS. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas finished reading his centennial\n discourse on the first settlement of Salem;\n was touched by his portrayal of the story of\n the Indians; especially enjoyed the passages\n respecting the Lady Arabella Johnson; read\n with interest his sketch of the recently\n deceased \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Robert Trimble\"\u003e[Robert]\n Trimble\u003c/abbr\u003e, brother Supreme Court\n Justice; congratulates him on the\n appointment of \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Joseph Hopkinson\"\u003e[Joseph]\n Hopkinson\u003c/abbr\u003e[to the Eastern District of\n Pennsylvania District Court Judgeship].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe case will not be finished till\n Saturday and he [John Marshall] will not be\n home till Tuesday; had a pleasant sail down\n the river to Norfolk; boards in a very\n agreeable house.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding Pst of ALS. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRequests him to purchase two more copies\n of \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Joseph Story\"\u003e[Joseph]\n Story's\u003c/abbr\u003ethree volume [ \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003ePublic and General\n Statutes passed by the Congress of the\n United States, 1789-1827\u003c/title\u003e] for the\n Supreme Court.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe sick [Supreme Court] judges have\n arrived; he continues his morning walks;\n they dined with the President and \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Mrs. John Quincy Adams\"\u003eMrs.\n [John Quincy] Adams\u003c/abbr\u003eon Friday;\n discusses their feelings on \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Andrew Jackson\"\u003e[Andrew]\n Jackson's\u003c/abbr\u003eelection; Jackson is\n expected in the city in a fortnight;\n mentions Mrs. Jackson's death; discusses his\n [John Marshall's] dinner invitations; tell\n Mr. [?] Call [Cole?] the secretaries are\n sick, and \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Henry Clay\"\u003e[Henry]\n Clay\u003c/abbr\u003ecaught a cold by attending the\n colonization society; discusses the upcoming\n inauguration.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding Pst of ALS. 2 pages. Also\n including TCy of ALS. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEncloses a letter to be sent to Mr. [?]\n Payne; imagines that Oby has carried out the\n clover seed from the cellar; received news\n from his son \n \u003cabbr expan=\"James Keith Marshall\"\u003eJames\n [Keith Marshall]\u003c/abbr\u003ethat she was not\n well; has written to his son in a feeble\n attempt to console him [Thomas Marshall on\n the death of his wife Margaret]; receive\n news from \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Jaquelin Marshall\"\u003eJaquelin\n [Marshall]\u003c/abbr\u003eof his new son, Jaquelin\n Jr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of ALS. 1 page. Including\n Pst of ALS. 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas had no news of her and is worried;\n discusses her delicate health; received news\n from his son \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Edward Carrington Marshall\"\u003e\n Edward [Carrington Marshall]\u003c/abbr\u003ewho\n grieves for his brother's [Thomas's] loss;\n received a serious and very religious letter\n from Thomas, who is much occupied with his\n children and superintends his son John's\n education.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of ALS. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnswers his letter of 21 February; is\n pleased that he has turned to religion and\n reason in handling his grief in losing his\n wife; is glad that he has kept John at hand\n [instead of sending him to Princeton]; an\n epidemic has hit the University [of\n Virginia] at Charlottesville, and a son of\n General [?] Jones is dying of the fever;\n this city [Washington] is full of\n office-sickness; discusses the spoils\n system.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas received his letter enclosing a copy\n of \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Judge Joseph Hopkinson\"\u003eJudge\n [Joseph] Hopkinson's\u003c/abbr\u003ecommission; will\n attend Virginia's constitutional convention\n as a delegate; explains his feelings\n regarding his election to the convention and\n to its being convened.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas received his letter accompanying his\n anniversary address to the Suffolk bar and \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Mr. John Brazer\"\u003eMr. [John]\n Brazer's\u003c/abbr\u003ediscourse at the interment of\n \u003cabbr expan=\"Dr. Edward Holyoke\"\u003eDr.\n [Edward] Holyoke\u003c/abbr\u003e; advises him against\n precipitous fulfillment of the publication\n requirements for his Dane Professorship [at\n Harvard]; his attention has been turned to\n the two great cases before the Supreme\n Court; place your thoughts of them on paper;\n \u003cabbr expan=\"Mr. Smith Thompson\"\u003eMr. [Smith]\n Thompson\u003c/abbr\u003ewill look into the New York\n case; discusses the matters which will come\n before the Virginia constitutional,\n convention: property qualifications, senate\n apportioning, basis of representation,\n freehold suffrage.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAfter much hesitation, he must complain\n to him about his barking dog which has\n distressed his [John Marshall's] wife who is\n in very poor health; is extremely apologetic\n over causing any inconvenience.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding Pst of ALS. 1 page.\n (Incomplete).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas read his discourses pronounced as\n Dane Professor of Law at Harvard; is\n impressed with his teaching efforts: \"Our\n southern youths would stumble at the\n threshhold [of your most appalling course]..\n .You yankees have more perseverence\"; no\n hopes that he lives to read his lectures;\n still regrets being a member of Virginia's\n constitutional convention.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWill be unable to accept his invitation\n as he is leaving town on Saturday and will\n be busy until then.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccepts his election as \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Bushrod Washington\"\u003e[Bushrod]\n Washington's\u003c/abbr\u003esuccessor' in some\n honorary position [President of the American\n Colonization Society?].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas finished reading his 1809 Fourth of\n July oration and his December 1828 speech\n \"on the constitutionality of the Tariff and\n the true nature of state government;\" his\n speech in the Senate was well-argued: \"Is it\n possible that South Carolina can withstand\n so powerful an appeal to... her patriotism..\n .and her real interest?\"; is flattered by\n the notice he took of the author of the Life\n of Washington [John Marshall] in his\n notes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWrites of his son \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Edward C. Marshall\"\u003eEdward [C.\n Marshall]\u003c/abbr\u003ewho is a proud new father;\n dined with the President [Andrew Jackson]\n and his [Andrew Jackson's] niece \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Mrs. Emily (Donelson) Jackson\"\u003e\n Mrs. [Andrew Jackson] [Emily]\n Donelson\u003c/abbr\u003e; saw Tom Francis a week ago;\n \u003cabbr expan=\"Judges William Johnson\"\u003eJudges\n [William] Johnson\u003c/abbr\u003eand \n \u003cabbr expan=\"John McLean\"\u003e[John]\n McLean\u003c/abbr\u003edo not board with the other\n judges; \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Judge Smith Thompson\"\u003eJudge\n [Smith] Thompson\u003c/abbr\u003eis sick; complains\n about not receiving his rent from his\n tenants Mr. [?] Sprigg on the Potomac and\n another at Anderson's Bottoms.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of ALS. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses the dinner parties which he and\n his brother Justices have attended; the\n Secretary of State [Martin van Buren] gave\n one for the new bride of the President's\n [Andrew Jackson's] nephew [?]; he dined\n yesterday with the British Minister; the\n influenza is as prevalent as it was in\n Richmond; \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Judge Gabriel Duval\"\u003eJudge\n [Gabriel] Duval\u003c/abbr\u003eleft town because of a\n relapse of his son; \n \u003cabbr expan=\"James Kieth Marshall\"\u003eJames\n [Kieth Marshall, his son]\u003c/abbr\u003ewrote three\n days past about his brother \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Edward Carrington Marshall\"\u003e\n Edward [Carrington Marshall]\u003c/abbr\u003e;\n mentions Washington's Birthday Celebrations\n effect on her.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding Pst of ALS. 3 pages. Including\n TCy of ALS. 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHeard from his granddaughter that she\n [Mary Willis Ambler Marshall] became\n indisposed upon her return from\n Chickahominy; has received a letter from his\n son James who sold his horse for $l000[?]; \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Mr. Joseph Story\"\u003eMr. [Joseph]\n Story\u003c/abbr\u003e, who has been laid up for a\n week under the doctor's hand has returned to\n court.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding Pst of ALS. 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses his morning routine; dined\n yesterday with Mr. [?] Swann; \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Mr. Joseph Story\"\u003eMr. [Joseph]\n Story\u003c/abbr\u003eis still not well enough to go\n out; talked about his nephew William [?]\n with Mr. [?] Mercer; Tom Francis took a\n stage for Kentucky; saw Mr. [?] Coleman,\n husband of his niece Lucy [?], who is a\n strong Jackson man; his [John Marshall's]\n nephew \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Tom Marshall\"\u003eTom\n [Marshall]\u003c/abbr\u003eson of \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Humphry Marshall\"\u003eHumphry\n [Marshall]\u003c/abbr\u003eis a strong Clay man, and\n will oppose Mr. Coleman in the next\n Congressional election; party plays havoc\n with the Kentucky part of his [John\n Marshall's] family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEncloses papers which \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Mr. Francis Scott Key\"\u003eMr.\n [Francis Scott] Key\u003c/abbr\u003ecould not present\n to the Court in person.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSends his respects to the Chief Justice;\n makes arrangements to see him.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses arrangements to have his\n father's [Thomas Marshall] will proved in\n the Virginia General Court so they can rule\n on his [Revolutionary War?] claim for half\n pay.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding Pst. of ALS. 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses land transactions with Capt.\n Slaughter and Major Thompsons; mentions Mr.\n [?] John Lewis's sale of his slaves to pay\n off Warner Lewis's debts; discusses their\n financial difficulties with Mr. [?] Nicholas\n and Mr. [?] Smith; encloses a promissory\n note of Edward C. and Mary Nelson Marshall\n on the Farmers Bank of Virginia for\n $5000.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses his [James Hillhouse] 1808\n proposal of electing the president by\n drawing straws among Senators; he [John\n Marshall] was opposed to it in the past, but\n has seen too much strife and bitterness in\n party politics.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of ALS. 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThanks him for sending a sermon on the\n late Massachusetts Chief Justice [Isaac\n Parker] and his [Joseph Story's] own sketch\n of Parker's Character; thanks him also for a\n box of fish; is sorry that brother \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Justice John McLean\"\u003eJustice\n [John] McLean\u003c/abbr\u003ecould not acquiesce in\n the \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003e[Craig V.] Missouri\n case\u003c/title\u003e; is-chagrined that so many\n cases, including Soulard, Smith and Cathcart\n and Robertson, were left incomplete at their\n last setting; discusses \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Mr. James Madison\"\u003eMr. [James]\n Madison's\u003c/abbr\u003eletter to the editor of the \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eNorth American\n Review\u003c/title\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter of reference for Capt. [?] Baylis\n who served with him during the\n Revolution.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHeard from \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Colonel Lambert\"\u003eColo.[nel] [?]\n Lambert\u003c/abbr\u003ethat she was in her usual\n health; discusses the latest snowfall; dined\n with the minister of France and his wife,\n neither of whom could speak English; dined\n with Secretary of State Martin van Buren\n yesterday; saw Mr. [?] Robinson yesterday\n who gave news of his [John Marshall's]\n sister \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Elizabeth Colston\"\u003e[Elizabeth]\n Colston\u003c/abbr\u003eand her family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding Pst of ALS. 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEnjoyed calling on Mrs. [?] Sedgwick\n author of \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eHope\n Leslie\u003c/title\u003etoday; the snow and ice has\n interrupted regular mail delivery from\n Richmond; they have lost their Marshal [?]\n Ringold, whose being ousted from office will\n distress his family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn verso, \n \u003cabbr expan=\"John Marshall\"\u003eJ[ohn]\n Marshall\u003c/abbr\u003eto [Edward Carrington\n Marshall]. Asks him to find a valuable 1776\n English pamphlet on the Declaration of\n Independence which Mr. [?] Storrs lent him\n [John Marshall] and which he misplaced.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSent him a barrel of hams on the schooner\n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eKing\u003c/title\u003eto be\n deposited with Fisher and Pewer of Boston;\n asks him what the \"wise men in the East\"\n think of the Cabinet upheaval; discusses\n arrangements for new quarters in Washington\n as the Justices will no longer be lodging\n with Mr. [?] Brown; discusses the copy of\n Algernon Sianey [\"Letters.. .in Defence of\n Civil Liberty and against the Encroachments\n of Military Despotism\"?] which he [John\n Marshall] sent him [Joseph Story] earlier;\n discusses possibility of war and the reform\n in Great Britain; will set out on his\n circuit at the end of the week.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArrived yesterday; thanks her for the\n cushion she made him to ease his journey;\n discusses the visit of a niece.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of ALS. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceived his letter and hams; regrets\n that the Court is moving out of Mr. brown's;\n would like to lodge with him [John Marshall]\n and Judge Thompson; discusses the break-up\n of the cabinet, which was a surprise to him;\n thanks him for the Algernon Sidney pamphlet;\n informs him of the death of his [Joseph\n Story's] 10 year old daughter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceived his letters of May 25 and 31 and\n adopted his opinions respecting admiralty\n jurisdiction; discusses arrangements for\n lodgings in Washington next winter and\n explains why he cannot do anything till he\n hears from \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Judge Henry Baldwin\"\u003eJudge\n [Henry] Baldwin\u003c/abbr\u003e; sympathizes with him\n over the loss of his child; tells of his\n similar experiences; he also wrote a poem in\n the occasion of his child's death, which he\n would have enclosed, but it was lost.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThanks him for his letter of 9 September;\n has conversed with \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Judge Joseph Story\"\u003eJudge\n [Joseph] Story\u003c/abbr\u003eabout the Declaration\n of Independence; discusses his [John Quincy\n Adams] ideas about it and the constitutional\n principles of state sovereignty, secession,\n and nullification.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses his medical examination by \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Doctor Philip Syng Physick\"\u003e\n Doctor [Philip Syng] Physick\u003c/abbr\u003e; will\n probably not see her again till he rides the\n circuit court 22 November; the gentlemen of\n the city, especially those of the bar, are\n painfully solicitous to show their respect;\n Nr.[?] Peters and Dr. [?] Gillespie press\n him to stay with them; gives directions for\n his crops to be tended to.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding Pst of ALS. 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe rains of the last several days have\n prevented \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Dr. Philip Syng Physick\"\u003eDr.\n [Philip Syng] Physick\u003c/abbr\u003efrom operating;\n discusses preparations for his medical\n treatment; missed Cary Ambler's visit\n because he was sitting for a portrait;\n Edward Ambler is in town; received a letter\n from brother \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Joseph Story\"\u003e[Joseph]\n Story\u003c/abbr\u003e; mentions his diet.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding Pst of ALS. 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses his medical treatment and \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Doctor Philip Syng Physick\"\u003e\n Doctor [Philip Syng] Physick\u003c/abbr\u003e; \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Brother Justice Henry Baldwin\"\u003e\n Brother [Justice Henry] Baldwin\u003c/abbr\u003eis\n here; discusses the arrangements for the\n Justices' lodgings in Washington, either at\n Mrs. [?] Peyton's or Mr. [?] Peters';\n explains why he did not think he would serve\n on the court at its next session; discusses\n his health and ailments of the past\n summer.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. [?] Giles will give news of his\n health; describes his ailment (\"stones in\n the bladder\") and the Doctor's examination;\n his operation by \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Doctor Philip Syng Physick\"\u003e\n Doctor [Philip Syng] Physick\u003c/abbr\u003ehas been\n delayed because of the weather; describes\n the Doctor and his [John Marshall's]\n accommodations; tell Major [?] Ambler that\n his brothers Edward and Cary are in\n town.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHeard of and congratulates him on\n successful operation; regards his health as\n \"a matter of the highest national\n concernment...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn verso, [John Marshall, to Edward\n Everett], incomplete. Is flattered by his\n kina token; describes his tedious operation;\n thanks him for his letter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLearned from Mr. [?] Peters that he was\n seriously indisposed; intends to leave for\n Richmond next week; discusses difficulties\n in their living arrangements; they will\n probably quarter with [?] Ringold; \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Mr. William Johnson\"\u003eMr.\n [William] Johnson\u003c/abbr\u003ewill live by\n himself, and \n \u003cabbr expan=\"John McLean\"\u003e[John]\n McLean\u003c/abbr\u003ewill preserve his former\n position; \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Brother Henry Baldwin\"\u003eBrother\n [Henry] Baldwin\u003c/abbr\u003epresides over the\n circuit court in session now in\n Philadelphia; describes his [John\n Marshall's] operation and medicine.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses the latest legal difficulties\n involving the Fairfax lands; his wife [Mary\n Willis (Ambler) Marshall] lies at death's\n door.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of ALS. 3 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses a pamphlet to which he [Henry\n Lee] alluded in his letter; mentions \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Thomas Jefferson\"\u003e[Thomas]\n Jefferson's\u003c/abbr\u003e\"unjustifiable aspersions\"\n on his [John Marshall's] conduct and\n principles; writes of his own and \n \u003cabbr expan=\"George Logon\"\u003e[George]\n Logon's\u003c/abbr\u003eexperiences with the\n Revolutionary government of France; mentions\n the journal he kept in Paris.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCertificate of the Clerk of the Circuit\n Court of Fauquier County dated 16 March\n 1961.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMakes arrangements for the sale of \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Edward Carrington Marshall\"\u003e\n Edward's [Carrington Marshall's]\u003c/abbr\u003ebank\n shares; her brother Tom [Thomas Marshall]\n tears that he will not win his election\n because he raises the clerk's fees.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHe was gratified by his complimentary\n comments on the speech he [Richard Henry\n Wilde] sent him [John Marshall]; sends him\n Mr. [?] Ingham's report on the relative\n value of gold and silver and Mr. [?] White's\n reports on coins; mentions Mr. [?] Jacob's\n work on the subject.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThanks him for sending him the first\n volume of the \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eAmerican Library of\n Useful Knowledge\u003c/title\u003e; the Librarian of\n Congress has asked him [John Marshall] to\n help spend $5000 on law books for the\n library, and he [John Marshall] asks him\n [Joseph Story] to suggest titles; discusses \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Charles Mercer\"\u003e[Charles]\n Mercer\u003c/abbr\u003eand the Bank Question and\n internal improvements in Virginia; the party\n guide \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe\n Enquirer\u003c/title\u003eis unable to make \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Mr. John Barbour\"\u003eMr. [John]\n Barbour\u003c/abbr\u003e\"pull in the traces;\"\n discusses national politics and the threat\n of nullification; comments upon the Cholera\n epidemics in the seaports of New York and\n Boston.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas received and read his essay \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"doublequote\" href=\"\"\u003eA Congress of\n Nations for the Amicable Adjustments of\n National Differences;\u003c/title\u003eFeels that its\n argument is well arranged and supported by\n applicable biblical quotations, but is also\n impracticable.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIs having difficulties selling his stock\n for him; there is a severe outbreak of\n cholera in Richmond; discusses the disease;\n is relieved to hear that he is restored to\n health and that John Harvie is getting\n better; discusses the disabling of his\n horse.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThanks him for his help in selecting\n titles for the congressional law library;\n discusses his choice of books; is gratified\n that his course on constitutional law [at\n Harvard] nears completion; shares his gloomy\n prospects of the country; \"The case of the\n south seems to me to be desperate.. .The\n union has been prolonged thus far by\n miracles. I fear they cannot continue.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses how he sold his [James Keith\n Marshall's] and \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Edward Carrington Marshall\"\u003e\n Edward's [Carrington\n Marshall's]\u003c/abbr\u003estock; hopes his\n merchandising speculation will be\n successful; congratulates him on the birth\n of his daughter; has just returned from Mr.\n White's son's funeral, who died of cholera;\n discusses the disease.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThanks him for the dedication of his new\n book; congratulates him upon its completion;\n the [Virginia] legislature is in session;\n discusses Andrew Jackson's response to\n nullification and his party's reaction to\n it; writes of Virginia's relationship to\n South Carolina and the possibility of their\n joining in a southern confederacy; thanks\n him for a copy of \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Mr. Daniel Webster\"\u003eMr.\n [Daniel] Webster's\u003c/abbr\u003espeech; mentions \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Brother Justice Henry Baldwin\"\u003e\n Brother Justice [Henry]\n Baldwin's\u003c/abbr\u003esickness.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEncloses a power of attorney authorizing him\n to draw what is coming to him [Thomas A.\n Marshall] on account of grandfather's [Col.\n Thomas Marshall] halt pay; discusses Congress\n and the Nullification crisis; mentions \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Judge Henry Baldwin\"\u003eJudge [Henry]\n Baldwin's\u003c/abbr\u003emisfortune and that \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Judge Smith Thompson\"\u003eJudge\n [Smith] Thompson\u003c/abbr\u003eis in town.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding ADS. 2 pages. 3 January 1833.\n Power of attorney granting John Marshall the\n right to draw the money due Thomas A. Marshall\n as heir to Colonel Thomas Marshall,\n Revolutionary War veteran entitled to the half\n pay pension; signed by Justice of the Peace\n D.A. Hall.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReturns his portfolio of drawings of\n Washington and pictures of Revolutionary\n Boston; recalls traveling to Richmond with him\n once.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInforms him that his son was accepted to\n West Point; does not think the Tariff bill or\n the bill concerning South Carolina's\n legislature will pass Congress.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceived his letter of 27 April; discusses \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Mr. Edmund Pendleton\"\u003eMr. [Edmund]\n Pendleton\u003c/abbr\u003e; mentions a copy of a letter\n from Mr. Carr in the possession of Col. John\n Nichols; Augustine Davis may have published it;\n his [Charles Carter's] brother has written to\n Mr. [?] Sujt in regards to it; discusses \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Mr. Edmund Pendleton\"\u003eMr. [Edmund]\n Pendleton\u003c/abbr\u003e, \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Thomas Jefferson\"\u003e[Thomas]\n Jefferson\u003c/abbr\u003e, and the XYZ dispatch.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses Lt. Randolph's case, Mr. Watkin's\n case, the power of arrest, and the Judiciary\n Act; rejoices at the abridgement of his \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eCommentaries\u003c/title\u003efor\n the public; discusses its place in colleges and\n universities.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses the national fervor in France\n based upon the martial glory of Napoleon and\n demonstrated by the statue at the top of the\n column of Austerlitz in the \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003ePlace de\n Vendome\u003c/title\u003e; compares Napoleon's popularity\n with the people to that of George Washington's,\n Hannibal's, and Ceasar's; all were \"victims of\n the infernal machine\" [party politics];\n discusses national politics and \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Martin Van Buren\"\u003e[Martin] Van\n Buren\u003c/abbr\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses the addition \n \u003cabbr expan=\"James K. Marshall\"\u003eJames [K.\n Marshall]\u003c/abbr\u003eis making to the house at Leeds\n for his father [John Marshall]; mentions \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Jaquelin Marshall\"\u003eJaquelin's\n [Marshall]\u003c/abbr\u003eexperiences of housing slaves\n in basements at Prospect Hill; mentions the\n weather and growth of crops and the health of\n his [Thomas Marshall's] daughter Mary; \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Aunt Elizabeth (Marshall) Colston\"\u003e\n Aunt [Elizabeth (Marshall)] Colston\u003c/abbr\u003eis in\n poor health and will probably not visit\n Richmond this Winter; his [Thomas Marshall's]\n son John's plans have changed and he has bought\n Mr. [?] Smith's tract of land; tell Mr. [?]\n Tiffin that the girls have never received the\n box of articles he sent to Mr. [?] Cawood by\n steamboat.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of ALS. 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas just received a letter from Mr. [?]\n Ringold who has moved from Washington and can\n not accommodate them next winter; \"the\n political world.., is surely moved \n \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003etopsy turvy\u003c/emph\u003e;\"\n mentions southern states insistence on state\n sovereignty; asks him about \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Brother Justice John McLean\"\u003e\n Brother [Justice John?] McClain\n [McLean's?]\u003c/abbr\u003eopinion in Tennessee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses the 1793 contract signed with\n Denny Fairfax for the Manor of Leeds and the\n South Branch Manor; suggests strategies to\n prove their legal title to the land.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses the purchase of land and the\n legalities it would entail; mentions the\n possibility of mortgaging the Mont Blanc estate\n for a loan.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHis present, a copy of his \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eCommentaries\u003c/title\u003e[on\n the Constitution] and Allison's Sermons, has\n arrived on the \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eLucy and\n Abigail\u003c/title\u003e; has sent him copies of his\n [John Marshall's] \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eLife of\n Washington\u003c/title\u003eto be delivered to \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Daniel Webster\"\u003e[Daniel]\n Webster\u003c/abbr\u003e, \n \u003cabbr expan=\"John Quincy Adams\"\u003e[John Quincy]\n Adams\u003c/abbr\u003e; the Massachusetts Historical\n Society, the Boston Athanaeum (which\n complimented him by having his portrait painted\n for their gallery), and Mrs. [?] Ledyard;\n discusses publication of his [Joseph Story's] \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eCommentaries\u003c/title\u003e,\n which will not be popular in the South;\n discusses \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Henry Clay\"\u003e[Henry]\n Clay's\u003c/abbr\u003eTariff bill.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses sale of his [James K. Marshall's]\n land; inform \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Edward Carrington Marshall\"\u003eEdward\n [Carrington Marshall]\u003c/abbr\u003ethat he [John\n Marshall] is pleased with the terms on which he\n has not rented Mont Blanc; will not leave for\n the country till July when he will visit\n [Fauquier White Sulphur] Springs; the May wheat\n has been injured by frost.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eQuestions him about the defeat of \n \u003cabbr expan=\"John Hardin\"\u003e[John]\n Hardin\u003c/abbr\u003eat the battle of the St. Joseph\n reported in his [John Marshall's] \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eLife of\n Washington\u003c/title\u003e; asks him to check with \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Mr. Jared Sparks\"\u003eMr. [Jared]\n Sparks\u003c/abbr\u003eif it was really fought on Paint\n Creek; discusses the elections of the Virginia\n legislature; mentions Martin van Buren.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes how George Washington convinced\n him to run for Congress in 1798.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWould have written upon his return from\n Washington, but was seriously injured in the\n stage; cannot find and send him a letter in\n George Washington's hand as requested; does\n enclose a military appointment of 1799 with\n Washington's signature.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHopes his injury will not be permanent;\n fears the loss to the nation if he resigns; has\n \"cleared the decks for the great legal\n conflict.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses arrangements regarding the\n acquisition of Mrs. [?] Kennon's [?]\n negroes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses Mr. [?] Warden's and Mr.\n Washington's and Brooke's suits which he\n [Charles Lee] agreed to look into for him [John\n Marshall].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA friend from the West has pointed out an\n error in his [John Marshall's] manuscript which\n he would like to correct as follows: \"v.2 p.207\n 1.27 at \"Chilicothe\".. .\"not Chilicothe on the\n Scioto in Ohio, but ... an old Indian village\n then standing about seventy-five miles rather\n East of North from Cincinnati...\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas had some difficulty weighing and selling\n his Parkinson breed of hogs because they were\n too large and their meat is not sweet enough;\n discusses purchases made for him, Mary, Fanny\n Burwell, and Maria Willis according to his\n directions; is surprised at the magnitude of\n his [Thomas Marshall's] debts; lectures on\n paying them off.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInforms him that his rent for the Campbell\n [?] land belonging to his [John Marshall's]\n father's estate is due.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccepts the President's invitation to dinner\n next Thursday at four.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses the last letter which he [John\n Randolph Roanoke] sent to him [John\n Marshall].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Both are sisters of John Marshall's wife, Mary\n Willis (Ambler) Marshall.]. Discusses her and her\n husband's, [Colonel Edward Carrington], visit with\n the Washington family at Mount Vernon and the\n impending delivery of Mrs. L. Custis Lewis's first\n child; describes their visit to the new national\n capitol on the Potomac; writes of their return to\n Mount Vernon and of their diversions there, which\n include hunting deer and taking care of the new\n baby, or \"the pretty little stranger\"; describes a\n chambermaid and other servants; comments upon\n domestic fashions and describes the furnishings of\n the mansion, which concludes with a description of\n the estate with its greenhouse and gardens, and of\n their host's [George Washington] treatment of his\n many visitors.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of ALS. 6 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Mary Willis (Ambler) Marshall, Richmond,\n Virginia]. Hopes that she will send for her in\n April, although her Aunt [Elizabeth (Marshall)\n Colston] says that it is unlikely; Uncle [Rawleigh\n Colston] is upset at all the letters she is\n sending, and refuses to pay postage on them;\n wanted to buy muslin in Martinsburg to make her a\n handkerchief and a cap for sister [?]; discusses\n her French lessons with her tutor, Mr. LeRoy, and\n incidents of his exasperation with Tom [Thomas M.\n Colston], Tom \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Thomas Marshall\"\u003e[Thomas]\n Marshall\u003c/abbr\u003e[a cousin], and Rawleigh [a cousin,\n Raleigh T. Colston], Cousin \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Edward Colston\"\u003eEdward\n [Colston]\u003c/abbr\u003ecruelly takes delight in telling\n her that she will not be able to go home until\n fall, and \"Uncle says he does not think you love\n me enough to ... send for me...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of ALS. 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas already conveyed his [James Markham\n Marshall's] undiscarded half of land at the forks\n of the Licking [Fauquier County?]; no longer has\n an interest in it, but will convey the novelty to\n him [Martin P. Marshall] at any time; \"lament[s]\n extremely the misunderstanding between yourself\n and Tom...\"; Lucy Marshall is in Fauquier\n [County].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of ALS. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWas lucky he came down on Tuesday, For he found\n his daughter, Nancy, ill, which has caused them to\n postpone their return to Weyanoke, [Virginia]; has\n cone a little transferring for Father; has been\n playing chess with Mr. [?] James? Taylor of\n Norfolk; instructs Agnes [his daughter] to attend\n to her studies in Richmond; hopes her [Mary Willis\n (Ambler) Marshall] trip to Chickahominy did not\n fatigue her.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of ALS. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMentions changes made in the college government\n at Harvard College; complains of college life -\n \"probably no life is so uninteresting to others as\n that of a merely literary man. An indolent\n collegian especially has nothing to say for\n himself...\"; mentions his classes: Electricity,\n Astronomy, and Moral Philosophy; describes his\n \"chums,\" [?] Turner, [?J Bonaparte, a nephew of\n the Emperor, [?] Cheves, son of Langdon Cheves,\n [?] Bruce, of Halifax County, and his cousin [?]\n Birchett; discusses dining arrangements at\n Harvard: \"We have a large table, confined to\n southerners, and what are called gentlemen\n Yankees\"; looks forward with great anxiety to\n graduating in ten months.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of ALS. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMost of her bank stock is to be distributed to\n her children and their children, although she\n leaves five bank shares for her \"faithful friend\n and house keeper Mrs. Francis Martyr\" and her\n daughter Anne and ten dollars a year in perpetuity\n to the school for orphan children established by\n the Ladies of Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of AD. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses the publication of the last Census\n and its effects on Congressional apportionment;\n discusses railroads and canals; writes of\n abolition in Loudoun and Fauquier Counties,\n [Virginia].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInforms her of her brother [Thomas Marshall's]\n accident in Baltimore and of his impending death;\n Father [John Marshall] has rallied from his severe\n cold, but does not continue to improve; he has\n taken cold again, is feeble, and has no appetite;\n he apprehends the worst.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes the weather; Mrs. [?] Mayo has the\n gout; Mary Archer and family are well; Margaret\n and Agnes Douthat are with her; Robert Pickett\n said nothing about paying back the loan; discusses\n his daughters' lessons under Mr. [?] Daley; gives\n directions for the farm; writes of \n \u003cabbr expan=\"General Jaquelin Harvie\"\u003eGeneral\n [Jaquelin] Harvie\u003c/abbr\u003e; discusses arrangements\n for her Christmas trip and for her slaves; asks\n about his daughters Claudia and Maria Willis.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of ALS. 2 pages. Including Pst of\n ALS. 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWrites a favorable recommendation for Dr. J. W.\n Leach who has resided in Fauquier County a few\n years and practiced medicine \"with success and\n usefulness,\" but who desires to move to the city\n to \"improve his fortunes and educate his\n children.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding ANS from \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Daniel Webster\"\u003eD[aniel]\n W[ebster]\u003c/abbr\u003e, n.p., n.d. to Mr. Bell, n.p.,\n recommending A.J. Marshall \"son [nephew] of the\n late \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Chief Justice\"\u003eCh[ief]\n Jus[tice]\u003c/abbr\u003e\u0026amp; a very reputable man.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHandwritten copy [by Alice Colston?]; tells him\n to draw on his [Edward Colston's] money at the\n Valley Bank. of Winchester and send $10 to Raleigh\n Edward at Lexington and the rest to \n \u003cabbr expan=\"William Leigh\"\u003eW[illiam]\n Leigh\u003c/abbr\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding Cy of ADS, (in same hand); 12 October\n 1840, Elizabeth Colston's will; bequeaths her\n slaves and other worldly possessions to her\n children and grandchildren. 4 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes an engraving of a spread-eagled\n American bald eagle bearing a lyre with the motto\n \"Nunc Sidera Ducit\" surrounded by thirteen stars;\n also bears the seal of the Department of State;\n the passport stamps show that Harvie visited\n France, Belgium, Austria, Switzerland, Holland ,\n Italy, Spain, Algeria, Rome, Naples, and Germany\n from May 1858 to March 1859.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes railroad travel in Virginia;\n discusses his visit in Richmond; mentions Col. [?]\n Mason's and \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Governor John B. Floyd\"\u003eG[overn]or\n [John B.] Floyd's\u003c/abbr\u003eefforts at arousing\n sentiment for immediate secession; mentions prices\n of railroad tickets.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of ALS. 1 page. Including Pst of\n ALS. 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding PDS. 1 page. Acceptance and oath of\n Frank G. Rutfin signed in Richmond before James\n Ellett, Notary Public, on 19 August 1861.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThanks her for writing to him in Miss [?]\n Harvie's behalf and for granting him an extension;\n the publishers will finish the reproducing within\n three weeks at which time he will return the\n miniture [sic] to her aunt; distressed to hear of\n Anne Harvie's death.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding Pst of ALS. 1 page. Incomplete.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding Pst of ADS. 2 pages. 30 November\n 1771. Another indenture signed by Fairfax leasing\n land in the Manor of Leeds to William Seth.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDoes not view the consequences of their success\n in the election [of 1800] in as favorable a light\n as he [John Page] does; speculates on what would\n have been the result of the election had there\n been no contest between the \"two Gentlemen who\n stood highest\" [Jefferson and Burr], and if \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Charles Cotesworter Pinckey\"\u003e[Charles\n Cotesworter] Pin[c]key\u003c/abbr\u003eor \n \u003cabbr expan=\"John Adams\"\u003e[John] Adams\u003c/abbr\u003ehad\n opposed Jefferson; speculates on the \"presumption\"\n of the Federalist view that should \"no election...\n take place, Mr. Adams is, under the Constitution,\n to continue in office until a successor be\n appointed; \n \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003ethat is until the next\n election of course\u003c/emph\u003e\"; says appointments of\n John Marshall as Chief Justice, seventeen new\n judges, and [?] Bayard \"the most unacceptable man\n that could be sent to the French republic,\"\n nominated as minister plenipotentiary -- all\n extend the influence of the Federalists and throw\n an obstacle in the way of Jefferson's\n administration; adds a few lines typical of what\n he sees as Federalist sentiment; and writes of\n their friendship.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSince he [John Randolph] is not long for this\n world, is anxious to settle his affairs; \"should\n you decide upon a settlement south of \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Philadelphia\"\u003e\n Philad[elphi]a\u003c/abbr\u003e(which God forbid) I am\n desirous that you should fix yourself as soon as\n possible on the plantation below the mouth of\n little Roanoke...[Bizarre Plantation?];\" his [John\n Randolph's] infirmity has prevented him from\n giving the estate the requisite attention, and it\n is much encumbered with debt; discusses his\n failing health: \"there is something radically a\n miss in the system. The machine cannot last much\n longer.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThanks him for compliance with his request\n \"thru our mutual friend Mr. John Marshall\"; will\n write soon; sends paper for Capt. Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eComments on events in Washington which instill\n \"deep regret and surprize\"; mentions the election\n in Kentucky; says the antimasonic excitement will\n likely be \"troublesome\" but he will not get\n involved in it; has not heard from Mr. [?] Hammond\n for a long time but does not distrust him but\n disagrees over the issue of the representation of\n Ohio in the Baltimore Convention; glad to hear of\n his [James F. Conover] professional prospects.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses the case of [?] Randolph being heard\n by \n \u003cabbr expan=\"U.S. District Court Judge Philip P. Barbour\"\u003e\n U.S. District Court Judge [Philip P.]\n Barbour\u003c/abbr\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cabbr expan=\"Chief Justice John Marshall\"\u003eChief\n Justice [John] Marshall\u003c/abbr\u003edied in Philadelphia\n last Monday, perfectly in his senses to the last;\n the news reached here only this morning, and his\n remains at 4 p.m.; describes the funeral\n procession.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEncloses the diploma of the historical\n Institute of France which just elected John\n Marshall a member on his [Henry Lee's]\n recommendation; describes Marshall's election to\n that society.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIs happy about her recovery; quotes\n Shakespeare; describes his own health; writes of\n his political campaigning in King and Queen, King\n William, and Hanover counties, [Virginia];\n describes her old neighborhood and farm, now\n occupied by Fleetwood Academy; discusses George\n Haskins situation, mentioning his lack of slaves;\n gossips about affairs in King and Queen County;\n discusses the unusual weather; tells an Irish\n joke; discusses \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Henry Clay\"\u003e[Henry]\n Clay's\u003c/abbr\u003etariff.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOne was a wax portrait in basso-relievo donated by\n Horace Edwin Hayden to the Virginia Historical\n Society in 1881; another was the bronze monument by\n W.W. Story which stands on the terrace of the U. S.\n Capitol; the members of the Marshall family who\n attended the dedication of this statue are listed in\n a third article.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePoem written on the request of a lady to inscribe\n his name in her autograph book.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of AL. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePoem honors the splendid singing voice of Miss\n Eliza Lambert, the sister of Richmond's Mayor William\n Lambert.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of AL. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"doublequote\" href=\"\"\u003eLines on the occasion of\n the raising of the bronze statue of Chief Justice\n Marshall, at Richmond in 1869(?) - while Brig. Gen'l\n Terry was in command of 'District No. 1'\u003c/title\u003e-\n which included the state of Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses tr. Physick's operation on John\n Marshall.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLists his pall-bearers: Henry St. George Tucker,\n John B. Clapton, \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Benjamin W. Leigh\"\u003eBenj[amin] W [?]\n Leigh\u003c/abbr\u003e, \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Thomas Rutherford\"\u003eTho[ma]s\n Rutherford\u003c/abbr\u003e, \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Charles Copland\"\u003eCha[rle]s\n Copland\u003c/abbr\u003e, \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Robert Popllard\"\u003eRob[er]t\n Popllard\u003c/abbr\u003e, Chapman Johnson, Robert Stanard, [?]\n Scott, and [?] D. Wren[?]; also lists the Marshalls: \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Col. George M. Carrington\"\u003eCol. Geo[rge]\n M. Carrington\u003c/abbr\u003e, \n \u003cabbr expan=\"General William Lambert\"\u003e[?] General\n [William] Lambert\u003c/abbr\u003e, General [?] Peyton, and\n Col. Armistead.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMentions the results of an autopsy on Marshall's\n body after his death in 1835.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePublished by the Reformed Church Publication Board\n in Philadelphia. The Centennial Address delivered\n before the Franklin and Marshall College of\n Lancaster, Pennsylvania on 14 June 1887.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSubsequently published by McGraw-Hill in a 1960\n book, \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eFountain of\n Freedom\u003c/title\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe smaller one was copied from French painter\n Levret Saint Memin's 1801 crayon portrait of\n Marshall. The larger lithograph was copied from\n Chester Harding's 1830 painting.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding a copy of and etching of John Marshall's\n house in Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe original of the one of Marshall facing right\n was made in Richmond about 1825 by a French artist.\n It was hung at Oak Hill, was inherited by his eldest\n son Thomas Marshall, and is privately owned.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEach was copied from the 1801 portrait of Marshall\n painted by Saint Memin. The large matted one was\n engraved by J. H. E. Whitney.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo obviously derived from Henry Inman's 1831\n portrait; one engraved by J. A. O'Neil shows Marshall\n in 1793 as the Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of\n Virginia Freemasons; the last includes engravings of\n portraits of other U.S. Chief Justices: John Jay,\n Oliver Ellsworth, John Rutledge, R. B. Taney, M. R.\n Waite, Salmon P. Chase, and Melville W. Fuller.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding a short history of Federal Hardware and\n Implement Mutual Insurance companies.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIt consists of a 26 February 1884 memorial to the\n General Assembly of Virginia, a 25 February letter to\n the Editor of \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe State\u003c/title\u003e, and\n handwritten commentary. Ruffin states the reasons why\n he is opposed to passage of the Richmond Dock and Dry\n dock bill.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information"],"scopecontent_tesim":["Original letters and copies of letters from other\n repositories, chiefly 1788-1835, of John Marshall's\n correspondence with his wife, Mary Willis (Ambler) Marshall,\n other family members, James Monroe, Joseph Story, Bushrod\n Washington, and others. The correspondence reflects Marshall's\n wide range in interests including law, Virginia and U. S.\n politics, international affairs, agriculture and social\n events.","Also included are letters by family members and\n descendants; a charcoal sketch and copies of visual\n representations of John Marshall; and places and events\n associated with him.","Has delivered his [Monroe's] letters to \n \n Gen[era]l [George Rogers] Clark and \n [John?] Banks ;\n discusses proceedings of the Virginia Assembly;\n R[ichard]\n H[enry] Lee's services to the Assembly\n are lost forever and \n Colo. Harry\n [Henry \"Light Horse Harry\"] Lee will\n probably take his place; mentions bills\n defining citizenship introduced by \n [John]\n Taylor and \n Colo.\n [George] Nicholas ; tells of [Joseph?]\n Jones bill and discusses \n Patrick]\n Henry's style of oratory; relates the\n House being split upon the issue of exclusion\n of the Statute Staple men; discusses military\n warrants for land and his [Marshall's] father,\n who set out for the western country on November\n 5.","Including Tcy of ALS. 2 pages.","Blesses George Washington who resigned his\n commission of 23 December 1783; will put his\n [Monroe's] letter to \n Majr.\n [John] Crittenden into the hands of \n \n Genl. [George Rogers] Clarke , who will\n be in the western country in February, and who\n will pay close attention to his [Monroe's]\n military warrant; mentions that the Speaker\n [John Tyler] has left Richmond; laments the\n passage of the bill excluding Virginian\n delegates to Congress from serving in the\n Virginian legislature; \"Fear of the power of\n Congress I have ever considered as chimerical;\"\n Colo.\n [John Francis] Mercer informed him of the\n passage in the Continental Congress of the\n resolution accepting Virginia's cession of the\n northwest territory.","Including Tcy of ALS. 3 pages.","Has enclosed a bill of exchange for the one\n hundred dollars due him [Monroe] as a Delegate\n to Congress, four dollars having been expended\n on his land warrant now in the hands of the\n Surveyor.","Including Tcy of ALS. 1 page.","Claims he is unable to send money because\n inclement weather has hindered state tax\n collection; \n [Samuel] Ege and\n Monroe's former landlady, Mrs. Shera, are\n clamoring to be paid; mentions the impending\n marriage of \"Little\" \n [John]\n Stewart and \"Kitty Hair\" [Catherine\n Hare]; gossips about \"artificial heat\" of the\n courtships of Mr. Dunn and \"your old\n acquaintance\" Miss Shera, and of \"Tabby\" \n [Tabitha]\n Eppes who \"has grown quite fat \u0026\n buxom, her charms...renovated,\" and her\n unsuccessful suitors: \n [Edward]\n Carrington , [?] Young, [?] Selden, \n [Matthew]\n Wright , and \n Foster Webb,\n [Jr.] ; mentions other friends and state\n officials including \n [Thomas]\n Lomax , \n William]\n Nelson, [Jr.] , \n [Beverley]\n Randolph , and \n [William]\n Short .","Colo.\n [William] Grayson is not here, but \n [Wilson\n Cary] Nicholas is; a quorum was reached\n on Wednesday, [May 12] and committees are being\n appointed; \n [Patrick]\n Henry arrived yesterday and is eager to\n have postponement of the tax collection; the\n Speaker [John Tyler] was chosen without a\n contest; tell \n Colo.\n [John Francis] Mercer that there lies\n £100 in the Treasury for him; he\n [John Marshall] will tell his [John Francis\n Mercer's] brother [James Mercer] in\n Fredericksburg the same; \n Major\n [John] Crittenden is again elected for\n Fayette County; asks him [Monroe] to deliver\n letters for him to \n Doctor [Arthur]\n Lee .","Reports he delivered his [William Branch\n Giles's] letter to \n Major\n [Charles] Magill while in Winchester,\n [Virginia] in August; discusses gaming act and\n several points concerning the case of his\n [William Branch Giles's] client, Mr. Bell; \n \n Brother James [Markham Marshall] has\n arrived from Kentucky and will remain in town\n through October.","Including Tcy of ALS. 2 pages.","Congratulates him on his return from\n Montreal and the Northwest; he too wishes that\n the British debts resolutions had not been\n passed, because it tends to weaken the federal\n bands and provides a pretext for the British to\n retain possession of the forts on the lakes;\n [Joseph Jones] has introduced a bill to provide\n for seven annual payments for repayment to\n begin in April 1786; only bill that has been\n passed was one granting \n [James]\n Rumsey a 10 year monopoly to develop the\n machine in a steamboat; discusses rejected\n bills, including one encouraging intermarriage\n with the Indians; General Assessment and\n circuit court bills will probably be thrown\n out, even with the influence of [Patrick]\n Henry; his [Monroe's] letter recommending \n Colo.\n [John Francis] Mercer did not arrive in\n time to appoint him to a position; \n [Joseph]\n James has replaced \n [William]\n Short , and \n [Spencer]\n Roane and \n [Miles] Selden,\n [Jr.] have replaced \n [Meriwether]\n Smith and \n Colo.\n [William] Christian ; \n [Edward?]\n Carrington was very disappointed in\n losing by one vote when Colo. Jack Nicholas\n walked out on the last ballot; he [John\n Marshall] attempted too to promote Monroe's\n friend's interest, Wilson Nicholas, who is\n about to marry \n Miss\n [Margaret] Smith of Baltimore; his\n [Marshall's] father is willing to help him\n [Monroe] in regards to his [Monroe's] western\n lands, but his [John Marshall's] cousin \n Humphr[e]y\n Marshall would be better able to;\n discusses relative merits of selling or keeping\n his [Monroe's] western lands.","Invitation to dinner; on verso is poem \n Extempore at the\n Convention in Virginia, written by\n Morris, satirizing the slowness of the\n proceedings of the Virginia convention called\n to ratify the U.S. Constitution.","Sends client a second subpoena as the first\n was never returned, concerning a suit in\n Chancery Court which involved title to land in\n Fauquier County, Virginia; asks that any\n depositions or affidavits be forwarded to\n him.","In response to a letter of Washington's, he\n [John Marshall] discusses the legalities of\n caveats and land patents.","Discusses general English legal history of\n intestacy, and Virginia's laws concerning\n priority of payment of a decedent's debts by an\n executor.","Asks for his [Thomas Walker's] account\n rendered to \n [John] Syme for\n other materials which will help him [John\n Marshall] to argue his [Thomas Walker's] court\n case.","Gives \n Col. [Reuben]\n Lindsey [sic] [Lindsay] an order upon him\n [John Marshall] for twelve pounds.","Discusses his [John Marshall's] financial\n obligations to him, including £20\n for a chariot; asks him to pay the governor\n [Henry Lee] for a hogshead of wine for him;\n mentions he is setting out immediately for\n Williamsburg.","Including Tcy ALS. 1 page.","Including Pst of ALS. 1 page.","Advises him [Francis Walker] to take\n testimony showing the value of his [Francis\n Walker's] lands which formerly belonged to \n Mr.\n [Nicholas] Meriwether in preparation of\n his case; discusses his [Francis Walker's]\n other case against \n [William]\n Cabell .","The case will probably be heard in March and\n Mrs. [?] Turnbull's presence will not be\n material; the subjects which the testimony\n should point to are the fortune of Mr. [?]\n Turnbull, the injury done that of Mrs.\n Turnbull, and the expenses she has incurred\n since the separation; if he [Charles Lee] can\n learn that, he will prove himself useful in\n Alexandria.","Note asking Jones to pay Garrett Cottringer\n $100; the bill is endorsed on the verso \"Feby\n 11 1794 Reed Payment, Garrett Cottringer.\"","Respectfully declines the Office of Attorney\n General of the U.S. because of his current\n business in Richmond.","Has transmitted to the clerk of Dumfries a\n transverse to the Fauquier inquest; hopes that\n it will be determined by means of a demurrer at\n the next terms; discusses why he [John\n Marshall] wishes this.","Has just arrived safely in Philadelphia, and\n waits impatiently for the arrival of \n Mr.\n [Alexander] Campbell before considering a\n British debts case; his [John Marshall's] own\n case may not be taken up; mentions attending\n the theatre and compares Philadelphia's\n favorite actress, Mrs. Marshall, to Richmond's \n Mrs. [Anne\n West] Bignall ; has not yet heard from\n his brother, James Markham Marshall; sends\n greetings to his children.","Including Pst of ALS. 2 pages.","In which he [John Marshall] sells 1,640\n acres in Clarke County, Kentucky, near Strouds\n Station which had been patented to Marshall on\n 11 March 1784. At dollars per acre, McCreery\n pays Marshall £500 as a down\n payment, with the balance to be paid when full\n title is proved. The deed is recorded under the\n Seal of the General Court of Virginia on 15\n June 1801.","Upset at the news of \n [Rawleigh]\n Colston's loss, and of the postponement\n of his [John Marshall's] visit to Buckpond,\n stating \"the thoughts of seeing you once\n more...is a principle means of keeping me\n alive\"; is pleased with his son's \"part...in\n the present Storm\"; would like to see his\n grandsons but fears the journey would tax their\n youthful constitutions; discusses his potential\n bequests of his property to the family;\n mentions he has paid taxes on his [John\n Marshall's] military land, but not on that\n which he gave to his grandson, Tom [Thomas\n Marshall] in Fayette [County, Kentucky]; thinks\n that \"the political Horizon [is about] to clear\n up\"; asks Marshall to notify \n Col.\n [Edward] Carrington that he [John\n Marshall] has sent \n Mr. [Peyton]\n Shorts' accounts to \n Mr. [Oliver]\n Walcot [sic] [Wolcott] .","Discusses \n Mr. [John]\n Eyre and \n [James] Nimmo ,\n two of Virginia's electors in the presidential\n election of 1796; comments upon the\n distribution of Virginia's electoral votes\n between \n [Thomas]\n Jefferson , \n Sam[ue]l\n Adams , [?] Clinton, \n [Aaron] Burr , \n \n Gen[era]l [George] Washington , [?] \n Pin[c]kney , and\n John Adams; the Virginia Assembly displays its\n former hostility to Federalism; hopes North\n Carolina will not \"tread the crooked path of\n Virginia\"; will furnish \n [Alexander\n James] Dallas with his [John Marshall's]\n argument in the British debts case.","Tells of a day spent at Mount Vernon\n (\"certainly one of the most delightful\n places in our country\") on his way to\n Philadelphia via Alexandria; misses her so\n much as to send his man \"Dick\" to her with\n this letter; is treated well by his unkle\n [sic] \n [James]\n Keith in Alexandria; \"I never was\n peremptory but I must now give you one\n positive order. It is be happy\"; sends two\n letters which he accidentally carried off\n and asks her to send the one addressed to \n Genl.\n [Henry] Young to \n Mr. [John]\n Hopkins , and to send the other to his\n brother, [Thomas Marshall].","Including Pst of ALS. 2 pages.","Thanks him [Caesar Rodney] for informing\n him that some papers which had slipped out\n of his [John Marshall's] pocket were being\n held by Mr. McCullough at New Castle, whom\n he has requested to post them to\n Philadelphia.","Discusses his voyage up the Chesapeake\n from Baltimore; mentions his first meeting\n with President John Adams; describes \"heavy\n gloom\" which hangs around the almost\n bankrupt Robert Morris and family; is\n impressed by the Vauxhall of Philadelphia\n and fashionable diversions; mentions estate\n of \n Mrs.\n [Susan] Heyward [sic] [Hayward] on the\n banks of the Schuylkil.","Including Pst of ALS. 2 pages.","Is \"extremely chagrined\" at never\n receiving any mail from her; writes he will\n sail on the brig Grace for Amsterdam within\n the week to join \n \n General [Charles] Pinckney ; discusses\n July 4th celebration of the Senators and\n Representatives.","Including Pst of ALS. 2 pages.","Has received her letter of June 30;\n thanks Heaven for her improved health and\n warns her that \"melancholy may inflict\n punishment\" on her unborn child; mentions\n that \n Colonel\n [Robert] Gamble's wife would like to\n visit her; expects to sail by the beginning\n of next week at the latest and is upset at\n the delay; will finish his business and\n return as soon as possible; sends greetings\n to his children and mother-in-law; mentions\n the adjournment of Congress.","Including Pst of ALS. 2 pages.","Sends this letter by \n Mr.\n [Humphrey ?] Marshall ; attended the\n play \n Romeo and\n Juliet last night, and compares \n Mrs.\n [Anne Bruton] Merry's \"Juliet\" to\n Richmond's \n Mrs.\n [Anne] West [Bignall's] ; visited \n Mrs.\n [Susan] Heyward [sic] Hayward and\n gossips about her rumored upcoming marriage\n to [Henry] Baring; complains about delayed\n departure and wearies of dining out, as he\n begins \"to require a frugal repast with good\n cool water\"; wishes \"that we were looking\n back on our separation instead of seeing it\n before us.\"","Including Pst of ALS. 2 pages.","Asks her to give a parcel of land deeds\n from \n [John?]\n Banks to Hobe, which can be found in\n his pine desk in his office, to the clerk of\n the General Court; is impatient to get on\n board ship and away; wishes he had spent\n another week in Richmond; with tomorrow's\n departure of the Republican, \n [Richard]\n Brent , the last of the Virginia\n Congressmen will have left the city; \"my\n spirits sink at parting with them.\"","Including Pst of ALS. 2 pages.","Will board the \n Grace at New\n Castle on Sunday [July 18] and will\n hopefully arrive in Amsterdam by the end of\n August; should hear from him next in\n October; \n Mr. [John]\n Brown [his secretary] has just arrived\n on the last stage; received his son Tom's\n letter of July 6; dined yesterday at William\n Bingham's country seat on the Schuylkil;\n describes the table setting and \n Mrs.\n [Anne Willing] Bingham's dressing in\n the latest fashions; besides his Virginia\n relations, he most enjoys the company of \n Mr. [Robert]\n Morris' family.","Including Pst of ALS. 2 pages.","Unfavorable winds have prevented them\n from reaching the open ocean; describes ship\n board accommodations, provisions, and\n companions, including John Brown, John G.\n Gamble, the Captain of the ship, Mr. Willis,\n and two Dutch gentleman; has sent a letter\n to Winchester, [Virginia] for his son, Tom;\n instructs her how to reach him [John\n Marshall] by letter.","Including Pst of ALS. 2 pages.","1200 or 1300 miles east of the Capes of\n Delaware, Marshall and the crew hailed a\n ship bound for America; has not been very\n seasick and has busied himself with reading;\n has arrived in Holland and sends news of his\n health and safety on the first American\n bound ship.","Including Pst of ALS. 2 pages.","The captain of a British frigate of\n Admiral Duncan's fleet at the mouth of the\n Texel boarded their ship on August 29 but\n treated them extremely politely upon\n learning that a U.S. minister was on board;\n observed the Dutch fleet in the Texel ready\n to move on the British if negotiations at\n Lisle [sic] [Lille] failed; describes the\n internal politics of the French government:\n the Directory presses for war while the\n Council of Five Hundred desires peace,\n fearing the politicization of the French\n army; Lord Malmesberry [sic] [Malmesbury;\n William Harris] is at Lisle [sic] [Lille]\n negotiating for peace between Britain and\n France; Tayleran Perigord [sic] [Charles\n Maurice de Talleyran Perigord], the French\n Minister of foreign affairs, has sent orders\n to French parts to grant immediate passports\n to the American envoys.","Arrived at the Hague and met with \n \n General [Charles C.] Pinckney on\n September 3; has just heard from an express\n from the Dutch minister at Paris to the\n Committee of Foreign Affairs about the\n Directory with the aid of the army moving\n against royalist and right wing opponents in\n the Directory, the Council of Five Hundred\n and the Council of Elders; discusses the\n impact which this coup d'etat of 18\n Fructidor should have upon foreign policy;\n the French government is now in the hands of\n those unfriendly to peace, and the moderates\n willing to judge the American case with\n fairness have been removed; received news of\n Mr.\n [Elbridge] Gerry's intended departure\n from Boston on July 23 and will await his\n arrival in Rotterdam for a week before they\n leave for Paris.","Reached the Hague on August 3 and is very\n much pleased with \n \n General [Charles C.] Pinckney ; had\n intended to set out for Paris immediately,\n but Pinckney received news from \n [Elbridge]\n Gerry on August 5 that he will arrive\n at the end of August; is perplexed and\n mortified at the delay; describes the Hague\n and its social life; mentions lack of\n companions for Pinckney's wife and daughter;\n has enjoyed the theatre even though he does\n not understand the language, and applauds\n the performances of \n \n Madame [Louise Rosalie Lefebvre] de Gazon\n [sic] [DuGrazon] ; the Directory's\n coup in Paris may abridge negotiations so as\n to occasion his return to America this fall,\n but he would resent such a circumstance even\n though he misses her immensely and is\n impatient to be with her again.","Including Pst of ALS. 2 pages.","The reports on the revolution in Paris\n have been confirmed; discusses violations of\n the French constitution, under the hand of\n the army, the very essence of a republic is\n destroyed, but \"French liberty may survive\n the shock it has sustained;\" \"All power is\n now in the undivided possession of those who\n have directed against us those hostile\n measures of which we so justly complain;\"\n will set out for Paris on Monday with or\n without \n [Elbridge]\n Gerry ; contrary to previous reports,\n negotiations still continue at Lille; their\n route to Paris is prescribed on their\n permit, probably to prevent their passing\n through Lisle [sic]; [Philippe Antoine] and \n Merlin [de\n Douai] is chosen director to replace\n Barthelemey and \n \n [Nicholas] Francois de Neufchatil [sic]\n [Neufchateau] to replace Carnot; Mr.\n Noel, the minister of France at the Hague\n has just informed him that 1,500 people have\n been arrested at Lyons and that \n General\n [Andre] Massena is marching to Avignon\n to quell resistance there.","Includes a copy of the letter which the\n three submitted to the French minister of\n foreign affairs after waiting to be received\n for a month; they have yet to receive an\n answer to this November 11 letter, and the\n condemnation of American vessels continues;\n the following is written in a numeric cipher\n which is decoded in superscript: \"Frequent\n and urgent attempts have been made to\n inveigle us again into negociation [sic]\n with persons not officially authorized, of\n which the obtaining of money is the\n basis...we have very little prospect of\n succeeding in our mission.\"","Has enclosed an issue of the Conservative\n [sic] [ \n \n Conservateur (Paris)] as an example\n of the abuse of the U.S. by the French\n press; discusses the arrests of innocent\n American citizens in Paris, including the\n cases of \n [Jesse]\n Putnam , \n [James V.]\n Murray and his brother [George W.\n Murray]; discusses the situation of American\n merchant marines who, being forced ashore\n after their vessels were captured, have no\n choice but to become French privateers;\n \"France resounds with the proposd [sic]\n invasion of England,\" but such talk may be\n designed merely to alarm Britain; discusses\n France's continental ambitions and Spain's\n situation; writes of the internal France\n political scene; encloses the November 7\n issue of the Leyden gazette with news of \n \n [Emmanuel Louis Henri Alexandre de Launay,\n comte] D'Anteaigues and \n [Joseph] Fauche\n [sic] [Fouche] and the reports of \n \n [Gillaume Alexandre] Troncon de\n [Du]Counaray and \n \n [Antoine-Claire] Thibidau [sic]\n [Thibaudeau] ; gives his opinion of\n the future French treatment of the U.S.","Has received no letters from her nor from\n his friends in the U.S.; will not be home\n until May and hopes that the Randolph's\n Executors case can be postponed until then;\n mentions amusements and dissipations of\n Paris; describes his new living arrangements\n [with Madame de Villette].","Including Pst of ALS. 2 pages.","Cannot settle or pay the accounts of\n American Consuls until the Congress of the\n United States acts on the matter; the three\n have agreed to transcend their powers to a\n limited extent in order to liberate distressed\n American seamen and return them to the U.S.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","Presents his compliments to Marshall; called\n at his lodgings twice this morning, but he\n [John Marshall] was not in; regrets that he\n will not be able to dine with him due to a\n previous engagement.","Arrived in Richmond a week ago but hasn't\n been able to attend to his business because of\n his many callers and because of the heat; he\n enjoys the company of his three year old\n daughter, Mary; discusses the health of his\n son, John, who is cutting teeth.","Including Pst of ALS. 2 pages.","Discusses Gerry's letter of 20 October 1798\n to President John Adams, in which he [Elbridge\n Gerry] makes several misstatements about his\n part in the XYZ Affair, which Marshall now\n refutes point by point; \"I must hope sir that\n you will think justly on this subject \u0026\n will thereby save us both the pain of an\n altercation...\"","Apologizes for an article lately published\n listing the offices which he [George\n Washington] offered to him [John Marshall],\n with which he [John Marshall] had nothing to\n do; the writer of the article, who obtained no\n information directly or indirectly from him\n [John Marshall], \"was unquestionably actuated\n by a wish to serve me and by resentment at the\n various malignant calumnies that have been so\n profusely bestowed on me.\"","Is pleased with his [John Marshall's]\n election to the [Congress] even though by a\n small majority; discusses the elections; asks\n him to inform him of the election results when\n all are known.","Will communicate the enclosures of his\n [George Washington's] last letter to \n Col.\n [Edward] Carrington and \n Col. [William]\n Heth when they arrive in town; comments\n upon the elections and the unexpected defeat of\n Col. [George]\n Hancock and Major [?] Haywood; discusses\n the composition of the new state legislature;\n and upon France's declaration of war upon\n Austria and its consequences.","Discusses military appointments and\n recommends several officers, including \n Col. [John]\n Cropper , \n Genl.\n [George Rogers] Clark , \n Genl. [Thomas]\n Posey , Col. James Breckenbridge, \n Col.\n [Callohill] Minnis , \n \n Genl. [Robert] Porterfield of Augusta , \n \n Genl. [Joseph] Blackwell of Fauquier ,\n and \n \n Col. [Joseph] Swearingean of Berkley ;\n comments upon the death of \n Mr. [Patrick]\n Henry .","Was unable to return the enclosed letter\n because he was out of town and his happy that\n he [George Washington] is not displeased that\n it was not transmitted to \n Col. [John]\n Cropper ; has just received his [George\n Washington's] second letter to that gentleman\n and will forward it immediately.","Including Pst of ADS, 2 pages. 5 August\n 1812. Indenture of Isaac Arnold and Elija\n Arnold assigning the title of the Manor of\n Leeds to James K. Marshall.","Encloses a blank power of attorney in order\n to transfer and draw dividends upon his\n Pennsylvania Bank Stock which Mr. [?] Pleasant\n has just remitted him [John Marshall];\n discusses land sales and the Manor of Leeds;\n discusses political situation and how the next\n election will affect their affairs; comments\n upon domestic unrest in regards to foreign\n affairs: \" I look forward with more\n apprehension than I have ever done to the\n future political events of our country;\" has\n just been informed of the total English defeat\n in Holland.","Including TCy of ALS. 2 pages.","Congratulates him on his marriage; the\n newspapers report Philadelphia mourning the\n death of Genl. Washington; hopes that\n moderation and toleration will succeed the\n violence of the last session of Congress; party\n strife exasperates Pennsylvania; the Governor\n has threatened to turn out of office every man\n who voted against him.","Replies to a letter which proposed a\n change of the law for collecting the\n internal revenue of the U.S. in\n nonintercourse law with France; mentions\n that popular feeling is against it, as the\n public sees it responsible for present low\n price of tobacco.","Has received her letter of August 5 and\n is pleased with her account of the\n children's behavior; approves of her sending\n the boys \"upcountry;\" Tom's [Thomas\n Marshall] last letter contained no news of\n her health.","Has just returned from a visit to Mt.\n Vernon where the widowed Mrs. Washington\n appeared \"tolerably cheerful;\" hopes Polly\n would \"show more firmness\" as a widow;\n pleased with his young son, Jacqueline's,\n last letter and hopes his schooling with Mr.\n Burns will continue.","Including Pst of ALS. 1 page.","Discusses the results of the presidential\n election of 1800 in Maryland, New England,\n and Pennsylvania, stating that it is \"an\n absolute certainty that any success in your\n state [South Carolina] elects him [Thomas\n Jefferson].","Reproaches himself for forgetting to\n recommend Major [?] Richardson to him [the\n commander of the 2nd Brig., Virginia\n militia] and does so now, hoping his neglect\n has not been a negative reflection of\n Richardson's abilities.","In compliance with his [John Jay] letter,\n the President [John Adams] has directed a\n requisition to be made to the Governor of\n Lower Canada for the delivery of Thomas\n Jamieson, alias Charles Splendor, a.k.a.\n Charles Johnston to the authorized person;\n the requisition and related documents are\n enclosed.","Discusses the difficulties involved in\n the present negotiations between King and\n the British commissioners; the President\n [John Adams] informs him that an informal\n agreement will be satisfactory as it will be\n impossible to induce the British cabinet to\n abandon their principles; matters are left\n to his good judgment; the stipulation of a\n sum is better than the present unsettled\n situation.","His financial embarrassments have\n prevented him from devoting time to writing\n the history or General Washington's life;\n sends him [John Marshall] a trunk containing\n Washington's books and papers, and an\n enclosed list thereof; wishes he weren't so\n ignorant of bankruptcy proceedings.","Presidential candidates, \n [Thomas]\n Jefferson and \n [Aaron]\n Burr , have an equal number or votes,\n and thus the House or Representatives must\n decide the issue; Marshall aces not care\n which way the election goes, but \"witnesses\n the anxiety of parties;\" suspects the\n contest will be decided by South Carolina;\n even it Jefferson wins, Burr probably \"will\n not surrender...all his pretensions to the\n office;\" is chagrined by the late Federalist\n defeat and blames unfaithful men like Mr.\n [Marston?] or Rhode Island who threw away\n their votes, as attributed in the letters to\n \n General [Alexander]\n Hamilton's pamphlet; the treaty with\n France is before the Senate; \n \n Chief Justice [Oliver] Ellsworth has\n resigned and \n Mr. [John]\n Jay has been nominated in his place;\n looks forward to returning to Richmond in\n March and leaving behind forever his\n political career.","An expression of the sentiments or\n respect which accompanied Vanderburgh's\n presidential commission to become a judge of\n Indiana Territory.","Discusses the probable policies of the new\n [Jefferson] administration; they will\n strengthen the state governments at the expense\n of the Federal, transferring as many powers to\n the House of Representatives as possible; the\n cabinet will probably consist of \n [James]\n Madison as Secretary of State, \n [Henry]\n Dearbourne [sic] as Secretary of War, \n [Albert]\n Gellatin or \n [Abraham]\n Baldwin as Secretary of the Treasury,\n maybe \n General\n [Robert] Smith as Secretary of the Navy,\n and \n [Levi]\n Lincoln or Mr. Livingstone [Robert R.\n Livingston] as Attorney General; many of\n Jefferson's party are disposed to press on to\n war, but the government will probably excite as\n much hate and resentment as possible amongst\n the people against England without proceeding\n to actual hostilities; the ill conduct of the\n British cruisers and Vice Admiralty and the\n remonstrances of American merchants well serves\n this purpose; delay the completion of your\n mission until you hear from the new\n administration as the present agreement with\n the British would not be ratified.","Including TCy of ALS. 2 pages.","Accepts his [Thomas Jefferson's] offer to\n administer the Presidential oath of office to\n him.","Being sued by Virginia on a bond of security\n which he signed for Daniel Brodhead several\n years ago, Marshall has learned that the\n recipient of this letter was acquainted with\n the advertisements which Brodhead was required\n to post; he sends him a commission, therefore,\n and asks for his and Colonel Anderson's\n depositions concerning Brodhead and his\n business.","Is composing a history of General\n Washington's life and requests information\n about the war in the Southern states, because\n General [?] Lincoln's letters to Washington in\n his [John Marshall's] possession do not tell\n much about the combined Franco-American\n operations at Savannah in 1779; send any\n important particulars respecting the siege of\n Charleston; is disgusted with the political\n world and hopes to see him [Charles Cotesworth\n Pinckney] in Richmond soon; asks about the\n political climate of South Carolina and thinks\n federalism may prevail in three districts in\n Virginia's state elections.","Discusses the mild but rainy weather and\n mentions various calamities which have befallen\n him: \"15 silver dollars\" of his \"had worn\n through\" his pocket \"and sought their liberty\n in the sands of Carolina;\" and when his man\n Peter unpacked his clothes, he discovered that\n he had not packed any of Marshall's breeches;\n \"I thought I shou'd be sans culotte only one\n day,\" but all the town's were too busy to work\n for him; \"I have the extreme mortification to\n pass the whole term without that important\n article of dress...\"","Including Pst of ALS. 3 pages.","Thanks him for an oration which he sent on\n the death of Alexander Hamilton; hopes that\n Hamilton's death will cast some odium upon\n dueling; was not aware that he had played a\n part in producing the commercial meet in\n Baltimore; did not know he resigned the\n emoluments of his military service.","Has received his [John Marshall's] November\n 2 letter requesting information for his [John\n Marshall's] history of General Washington's\n life, and will send his recollections of many\n transactions as soon as he can put them to\n paper; he [John Marshall] should also contact\n Colonel [Bushrod] Washington; will send the\n book \n Campaigns of 1780 and\n 1781 , supposedly written with [?]\n Tarleton's assistance, which contains more\n official documents than any other work and\n correct plans of some of the actions, if it\n will be of any use.","Arrived at her mother's yesterday, and found\n her not as well as he had hoped; her sisters\n are well; forgot to pay his brother Charles\n five dollars for his [John Marshall] son John's\n schooling; things are badly conducted at his\n [John Marshall's] plantation.","Discusses the problems of the Fairfax lands\n and the people of Winchester; will endeavor to\n raise a considerable part of the money required\n for payment.","Including TCy of ALS. 2 pages.","Asks for the money which he [John Ambler]\n owes him for payment for land; needs it to make\n his [John Marshall's] payment to Mr. [?]\n Fairfax, which fact he [John Ambler] knew; his\n [John Marshall's] brother William will take the\n contract off his [John Ambler's] hands if\n desired.","Takes no offense at his [John Marshall]\n printing of his [John Adams] letters to \n Gen[era]l\n Washington in his [John Marshall's]\n biography of Washington; in detailing the\n events of the last years of Washington's life,\n he [John Marshall] \"will run the gauntlet\n between two influential factions, armed with\n scorpions...;\" but such an investigation must\n be made; comments upon his [John Adams]\n appointing \n Gen[era]l\n Washington to head of the army.","Has received his [James Markham Marshall's]\n letter enclosing Col. Thurston's deed; did not\n hear about his [James Markham Marshall's] suit\n with Stevens; Fitzhugh's note is in [?]\n Williams' hand but has yet to get process\n executed on him as he stays at different places\n in Maryland and can't be easily found;\n discusses arrangements made for their nephew\n Tom, with their brother William.","Discusses politics and report of Mr. [?]\n Chesnut that the Democratic Party in South\n Carolina would unquestionably support him\n [Charles Cotesworth Pinckney]; the late\n convention at New York confided that \"unless\n this point can be gained...we [the Federalists]\n shall again miscarry;\" no times have been more\n perilous than the present because of the\n internal changes wrought \"by a party always\n hostile to our constitution\" and because of\n even greater external threats; if the present\n foreign policy with France is continued, the\n United States \"will soon become an empty name\"\n and will no longer be independent; has spent\n his time on agricultural pursuits instead of\n professional duty, and scarcely ever reads a\n newspaper, but the nation's troubles are too\n serious for him to continue to do so; the\n Virginia Federalists may win three or four\n seats in the next Congress, but there is no\n hope for the presidential election.","Requests him to pay James Brown one thousand\n dollars when his [John Marshall's] quarterly\n salary accrues on October 1.","Richmond Federalists have mutinied, and have\n recommended to their brethren throughout\n Virginia to support the Monroe ticket; was out\n of town but attempts to explain the reasons for\n such action.","Is honored to be chosen as a corresponding\n member of the Massachusetts Historical Society;\n as he will not return to Washington, [D.C.]\n until February, perhaps some member of Congress\n might find room in his baggage for the volume\n he [John Eliot] mentioned.","Asks him to send the collections of the\n Society.","Discusses arrangements being made with Mr.\n [?] Willing and [?] Francis to take his [John\n Marshall] two sons, [John and James Keith\n Marshall], into their counting house when they\n reach the age of 16; outlines their recommended\n course of study before then; Mr. [?] Waln[?]\n will receive his [John Marshall] other son,\n [Edward Carrington Marshall], into his\n mercantile establishment, if the precarious\n state of the country: commerce permits it, when\n he comes of age; asks if he should send his\n [John Marshall] half-pipe of wine to Richmond\n by way of Norfolk.","Including Ph. 1 page. Incomplete.","Acknowledges letters of Apr. 22, 29, and 30.\n Outlines patents to Virginia land. Philip\n Pendleton, Anderson, and Hunter involved in\n caveat; advises against use of treasury warrant\n for 1,180 acres. Colston. Decision in Hunter\n and Fairfax case, decided in favor of Hunter.\n Asks Lee's opinion as to appeal to Supreme\n Court; John Marshall favors appeal; sending\n record; Jones to be engaged as attorney to help\n Lee. Cause precedent for pending caveats if\n Supreme Court \"against us,\" save expense; if\n \"in our favor,\" probably respected or ascertain\n points for ultimate determination \"in our\n favor.\"","Is gratified by the compliments he [John\n Marshall] paid to him in his last letter, and\n hopes to continue his service to the country;\n has not learned if [?] Serruier is charged with\n any special orders to the government; [?]\n Turreau has for some time desired to return to\n France; asks him [John Marshall] for a proper\n statement of an anecdote concerning Temple\n Franklin and Benjamin Franklin Bache's\n unsuccessful attempts to establish a newspaper,\n which he [John Marshall] related to him last\n year.","Including Pst of ALS. 2 pages.","Upon his return from the \"laborious\n relaxation\" of his farm, he found the\n President's [Madison] message, the report of\n the committee of foreign relations, and the\n declaration of war against Great Britain.","Accepts his invitation to dine with him.","Accepts his invitation to dine with him on\n Wednesday.","Cannot direct the special court he [Littleon\n Wailer Tazewell] requested because the law\n authorizing a circuit judge to perform the\n duties of a district judge is limited only to\n the case of the disability of an existing\n district judge, and does not extend to the case\n of a vacancy of that office; has notified the\n Secretary of State of the public hardships if\n an appointment is postponed.","Received a copy of his book, Historical\n Letters, and asks Mr. [?] Pleasant to sign him\n up as a subscriber; comments favorably upon the\n work, a comparative history of the nations of\n the world.","Received his cheek for $500 and letter upon\n his [John Marshall] return from North Carolina;\n will receive four sets of \n The Life of\n Washington from \n Mr. [Mason\n Locke] Weems ; discusses a case of\n Admiralty business which he had just heard in\n circuit court and asks for his [Bushrod\n Washington] opinion; is anxious to terminate\n next court's business so he can devote himself\n to the farm.","Including TCy of ALS. 2 pages.","Discusses whether the power to pass\n bankruptcy laws resides in the states or in the\n federal government; discusses part of\n Constitution which inhibits passage of \"law\n impairing the obligation of contracts\" and how\n it relates to bankruptcy laws; says he [Bushrod\n Washington] heard the argument and his opinion\n could be relied upon better than his.","Asks what provision is made for them at\n their session; will he make accommodations for\n them; asks \"Are we to have peace; or is the war\n to be continued till we are dismembered?\"","Asks him [Bushrod Washington] to ask the\n counting house of Messrs. Willing \u0026 Francis\n if they are still willing to take his [John\n Marshall] fifteen year old son James (now a\n student at Cambridge) into their firm.","Has made inquiries in response to his\n letter; land for which taxes are unpaid before\n August will be sold; payment can be made to the\n Sheriff of the county; discusses George\n Washington letters and how he thinks they\n should be published; asks him to settle a\n newspaper account for him.","Encloses a copy of a letter from Robert\n Colston in which he [Robert Colston] complains\n of his [John Ambler's] withholding payment and\n threatens him John Ambler] with a lawsuit;\n suggests that he [John Ambler] give Mr. Colston\n an order on Mr. [?] Smith for the amount in\n question with as little delay as possible.","Discusses civil admiralty jurisdiction about\n which he had formed an opinion from the\n characters in a case of piracy not from\n precedent; wishes him to discuss revision of \n \"The Life\" [of George\n Washington] with Mr. Wayne while he is\n in Philadelphia; explains his ideas for the\n organization of the work; says it must be\n prepared at leisure and not offered until there\n is a demand for it.","Encloses a memorandum from the Auditors'\n office concerning William Marshall's lands in\n Nason and Franklin counties, [Kentucky], and a\n letter which he wishes delivered to his sister\n [Jane (Marshall) Taylor]; she desired him to\n engage a house for her at Fauquier Court\n House.","Encloses a memorandum from the Filson club.\n 2 pages. Including TCy of ALS.","After reading the recipient's address to the\n New York Historical Society, he sends him his\n thoughts on the study of history.","Discusses the Washington social life; is\n impressed with the French minister and his wife\n [?]; \n [William]\n Wirt arrived yesterday but he brought no\n letters; warns her to take enough blankets to\n arm herself against the intense cold when she\n goes to Chiccahoniiny [sic] on February 21.","Including Pat of ALS. 2 pages.","Asks Marshall to administer the Presidential\n oath to him.","Including Pst of ALS. 1 page. Also including\n TCy of ALS. 1 page.","Agrees to administer the Presidential oath\n of office to James Monroe.","Including Ph. neg. of ALS. 1 page.","Has read in \n Jaquelin\n [Marshall]'s last letter news of her ill\n health, and advises her not to expose herself\n to the cold in her fears of being too warm; he\n is in good health and is busily employed. 1\n page. ALS. Including ALS on verso from John\n Marshall, to his son [John?], discussing farm\n matters, and asking him to receive the\n overseer's letter concerning such things as\n preparing the soil with plaster of paris\n grubbing, cutting, and burning; does not want\n him to send packages by post, but by private\n conveyance if available; sends him a note for\n $60 to pay Mr.[?] Cocke for 20 barrels of corn;\n asks about \n James [Keith\n Marshall] and hopes he has engaged in a\n course of reading.","Also Including TCy of ALS. l page. Also\n Including Pst of ALS. 2 pages.","Encloses a letter from \n \n General [Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du\n Motier, Marquis de] Lafayette , which he\n has been unable to deliver in person, as the\n General had instructed; saw \n Juge\n [sic] [Bushrod] Washington several months\n earlier, and was informed by him that Mr. [?]\n Graham returned to Lafayette the General's\n papers, which Marshall had borrowed.","Including ALS, 22 April 1817, from \n [Marquis de]\n Lafayette , La grange, [France], to John\n Marshall, United States, Virginia. Introducing\n his friend M. des Caves; praises Marshall's\n biography of Washington and says that most of\n his correspondence with Washington was lost\n during the French Revolution; mentions the\n copies of Washington's letters to him, which he\n desires to be returned to him by Bushrod\n Washington; recommends M. desCaves to him [John\n Marshall].","Including TCy of ALS. 2 pages.","Is unable to accept his invitation to dine\n with him because of his health.","Requests that his case before the \n [Supreme]\n Court be given a day's respite as the\n extremes of weather have incapacitated him.","Has received and finally read the address\n which he presented to the New York\n Historical Society; was much pleased with\n its clarity and lucid arrangement, and feels\n the public would like to see more from his\n pen.","Asks for information about nail making\n machines in Boston, for a friend of his who\n might like to purchase one; the opinion in\n the Banks case \"has roused the sleeping\n spirit of Virginia\" and will be attacked in\n the papers.","Asks him to purchase books for his [John\n Marshall] nephew, [?] Taylor who is at\n school in Kentucky; makes arrangements to\n pay the bookseller and [?] Deiplaine, and to\n have him send the volumes, including \" \n Terence [sic] \u0026\n Livy in Latin, Longinus , \n Thucydides, \u0026\n Demosthenes in Greek , also \n Xenophens retreat of\n the 10,000 \" to his [John Marshall]\n brother, \n Doctor\n [Louis] Marshall , in Kentucky;\n discusses dissatisfaction of Virginian\n politicians with the Supreme Court's opinion\n on the Bank question; \"we shall be denounced\n bitterly in the papers... and we shall\n undoubtedly be condemned as a pack of\n consolidating aristocratics;\" mentions\n unexpected and long unheard of financial\n distress of Richmond merchants.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page. Also\n including Pst of ALS. 2 pages.","Extracted from a letter of Joseph Story's\n to John Marshall describing a $1000\n nail-making machine invented by Mr. [?]\n Perkins, and used extensively in the\n Amesbury Factory near Salem, Massachusetts;\n also describes two different, less expensive\n models patented by Mr. [?] Reed [?], and\n discusses arrangements for their sale and\n delivery.","Discusses an error in his published\n manuscript [of a court decision?] which he\n [John Marshall] wishes Mr. [ ] Bronson to\n correct.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page. Including\n Pst of ALS. 1 page.","Discusses the gross misrepresentations\n the Democratic-Republicans have attributed\n to the Court's opinion in the Bank case in\n order to excite ferment in the masses; asks\n his advice on a case in Admiralty Court,\n that the \n Little\n Charles , libeled for violating the\n 1808 Embargo Act.","If the publication of his [John Marshall]\n work has not yet commenced, he would rather\n have the signature changed to \"A\n Constitutionalist\"; the letters of\n Amphyction and of Hampden have had more\n influence in the country than in Richmond;\n hopes some respectable legislators will\n refute them.","Questions him [Joseph Story] about an\n admiralty case concerning the hypothecation\n of a vessel belonging to the port of\n Richmond; discusses legal principles of\n hypothecation in general in the United\n States; does not think that a piece in the\n Boston papers should be republished, Mr. [?]\n Wheaton's appendix; leaves the opinion in\n the militia case for him [Joseph Story] to\n write.","Discusses the legal principles of\n hypothecation and maritime law as he [Joseph\n Story] sees them in regards to a case in New\n York, and concludes that the chief-question\n is \"whether the ports of the different\n states are to be deemed foreign ports in\n respect to the rights of the hypothecation\n or of implied lien\"; in his [Joseph Story]\n district, as well as in South Carolina,\n Maryland, Pennsylvania, and New York, they\n are; he [Joseph Story] \"is open to argument\n and will follow in a better path. And as the\n advancement of the law, and not merely of\n our private opinions should be the great\n ambition of all judges, I am quite content\n to yield to the judgement of others.\"","Mentions a trial at Richmond for piracy\n and discusses the lack of international law\n regarding the same; writes of his\n subscription to Mr. Bronson's \n Gazette of the United\n States which has become the \n Union .","Discusses constitutional issues involving\n piracy, the slave trade, and the Supreme Court;\n mentions \n \n [Littleton Waller] Tazewell .","Has not formed an opinion of the case which\n was remanded to the circuit court of\n Pennsylvania; congratulates him on the prospect\n of a full docket in \n [New] Jersey and\n upon his empty one in North Carolina; he called\n on Mr. Blair, the President of the Bible\n Society, who says he [Bushrod Washington] was a\n permanent member of the society and in arrears\n for the years 1816-1819; was frozen on the \n Rosaline , has\n scarcely thawed out.","Hopes none of the papers of George\n Washington have miscarried; sent the last ones\n to him [Bushrod Washington] by a coal vessel of\n Alexandria; has employed a person to copy the\n pre-Revolutionary letters of General\n Washington, and he [John Marshall] will himself\n copy the military letters in his possession\n after he [Bushrod Washington] informs him in\n which volume they will be published; he [John\n Marshall] will also proceed to copy the letters\n written between the close of the war and the\n adoption of the constitution, and has retained\n no others.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page. Including Pst\n of ALS. 2 pages.","Encloses an affidavit stating that he [John\n Marshall] lost the certification meant for \n T[homas?]\n Marshall and asks him [Bushrod\n Washington] to send from Philadelphia a bond to\n be executed; has received from Mr. Ward of\n Salem a copy of a letter written by \n Mr. W[illia]m\n Fairfax to Capt. Clarke of Salem dated\n Belvoir 22d. February 1749, which states that\n \"Major Washington [has] just returned from\n London whither he lately went to get his\n arrears of pay \u0026 be put on the\n establishment of half pay...\" concludes that\n this cannot be George Washington; poses\n questions about George Washington's genealogy;\n asks him [Bushrod Washington] to talk with the\n editor of Langhornes' Plutarch while in\n Philadelphia about an anecdote concerning\n George Washington selling his old charger.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page. Including Pst\n of ALS. 2 pages.","Discusses Mr. Moorehead's purchase of Mr.\n Johnson's land in Fauquier County; wheat and\n other crops are doing well.","Describes being thrown by a horse; will\n bring the letters they agreed to copy to\n Washington; wishes him to speak again with Mr.\n Wayne about a second edition of the life of \n [George]\n Washington ; recommends that \n Mr. [Mason\n Locke] Weems have a subscription paper\n for the letters and life at the same time;\n thinks they should reduce the charges on the\n life to half a dollar per volume, then the\n second volume might be sold for two dollars a\n volume.","Hopes his [Bushrod Washington] health will\n improve so he can come visit at the end of the\n month so they can deliver opinions on various\n cases including the one from Virginia \"which\n has exerted so much commotion in our\n legislature\" [a case involving an act of\n Congress allowing a lottery in Washington, D.C.\n with ticket sales in Virginia contrary to\n Virginia law. See JK/159l/V5/Rare Book\n (Virginia)/].","A letter of \n James [Keith\n Marshall]'s informed him [John Marshall]\n of her return from Chicahominy; hopes that the\n celebrations of the 22nd did not disturb her\n too much; \n Judge\n [Bushrod] Washington is not well; he\n [John Marshall] is very busy at Court; dines\n out frequently and eats too much; does not\n attend the continual gay parties in Washington.\n 2 pages. ALS. Including ALS on verso from John\n Marshall to his son [James Keith Marshall],\n asking about the health of Jacob, one of the\n slaves; tells him to purchase as much clover\n seed as he can if he does not get the money\n from [?] Smith.","Including Pst of ALS. 2 pages.","Hopes his health was not injured by his\n traveling to Philadelphia to perform his\n circuit duties; mentions case in his circuit\n involving merchants indebted to the U.S. on\n duty bonds; recommends the writings of Algernon\n Sidney.","Asks his opinion of legalities of a case\n concerning insolvency and priority of payment\n to creditors; the Supreme Court opinion in the\n Lottery case virulently assaulted in the\n newspapers, especially by Algernon Sidney in\n the \n Enquirer who is\n \"supposed to be the champion of the state\n rights.. .[but] really is the champion of\n dismemberment;\" is anxious to hear if his\n [Joseph Story] and \n [Daniel]\n Webster's amendment to the Massachusetts\n constitution was approved by the people or\n not.","Discusses legal principles of partnership,\n joint property and the priority of the payment\n of debts under English and American bankruptcy\n laws; writes of the federal government; reports\n on the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention;\n will send on the next vessel for Richmond some\n Salem fish and a recipe on how to cook\n them.","Thanks him for his opinion on the case on\n which he [John Marshall] consulted him; has\n enclosed the letter from \n Mr. [James]\n Madison to Genl. Washington which he\n [John Marshall] had selected last winter but\n forgot to send; discusses the legal matter of\n inland and foreign bills and hypothecation\n relating to the New York case.","Including TyC of ALS. 1 page. Including Pst\n of ALS. 2 pages.","Is grateful for his expressions of esteem;\n hopes the harmony of the bench will never be\n disturbed; discusses \n [Thomas]\n Jefferson's and \n [James]\n Madison's doubts of the Supreme Court as\n the ultimate arbiter of the constitutional\n questions; comments upon Jefferson's character\n and influence over the people; encloses\n Algernon Sidney's essays with their weak\n argument and violent language; in the Virginian\n newspapers \"not a pen is drawn in support of\n the sound principles of the constitution of the\n Union... I look elsewhere for safety.\"","Has received the fish and will cook it\n according to instructions; discusses Mr. [?]\n Hall and his intended publication of Algernon\n Sidney's essays and asks if he [Joseph Story]\n can prevent it; Mr. [?] Caedwell has not yet\n sent the volume of the debates of the\n Massachusetts Constitutional Convention;\n discusses the designs of the\n Democratic-Republicans in attacking the Supreme\n Court; questions him about a case involving\n William McKinly, a tax collector, and his\n depositions.","Asks him to join him at dinner on Tuesday at\n 4 o'clock.","Makes arrangements for his [Littleton Waller\n Tazewell's] deposition to be taken on 23 May;\n if \n \n General [Robert Barraud] Taylor and Mr.\n [?] Blair are out of town, send for magistrates\n and have the necessary steps taken.","Has received the President's message to\n Congress concerning internal improvements, \"a\n question which very much divides the opinions\n of intelligent men;\" \"a general power over\n internal improvements, if to be exercised by\n the Union, would certainly be cumbersome to the\n government, \u0026 of no utility to the people.\n But to the extent you recommend, it would be\n productive of no mischief, and of great good;\"\n he [John Marshall] despairs that such a measure\n will be adopted.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","Has found in the Journal of the House of\n Delegates that the bill for confiscating Lord\n Fairfax's estate passed in January 1786, but\n was defeated in the Senate; discusses the role\n of the Supreme Court in deciding cases relating\n to treaties; will not be at Happy Creek before\n 6 August; will also visit Cumberland, Mr.\n Colston's and maybe Bath.","Including TCy of ALS. 2 pages.","Grants power of attorney to him [Benjamin\n Watkyns [sic] Leigh] to make or endorse any\n notes given by Edward Colston, James Marshall\n or \n James\n M[arkham] Marshall for the purpose of\n paying a debt to the Bank of the United States\n due from Nimrod Farrow or from the estate of \n Turner [?]\n Dixon .","Asked Mr. [?] Williams about the information\n he [Jaquelin B. Harrie] desired; he [Williams]\n wrote that he gave his letter to the delegate\n from Florida, who has yet to answer it.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","Discusses his trip from Richmond and the\n rainy weather; did not find Mr. [?] Skinker at\n home, so arrived last night at his friend's \n General [?]\n Blackwell's , who is almost blind; Tom\n [Thomas Marshall] was there earlier\n electioneering; the election will be closer\n than he [John Marshall] had originally\n thought.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page. Also including\n Pst of ALS. 2 pages.","Met his son, \n Edward\n C[arrington] Marshall ; introduced him to\n several gentlemen in Boston, and recommended\n him to the President of Harvard College; made\n arrangements for him [Edward Carrington\n Marshall] to live in Cambridge and to be\n tutored until rooms at the College are assigned\n after commencement; discusses his [Edward\n Carrington Marshall] expenses; takes great\n pleasure in aiding him in all measures;\n discusses his [John Marshall] latest decision\n on the Cashier of the Branch Bank of the United\n States; is anxious about the appointment of \n \n [Supreme Court] Judge [Henry B.]\n Livingston's successor.","Thanks him for his friendly attentions to\n his [John Marshall's] son, [Edward Carrington\n Marshall]; gives his opinion of the case of the\n Bank of the United\n States v. Dandridge ; alarmed at the\n rumored successor of their \"much lamented\n friend\" [Supreme Court Justice Henry B.\n Livingston].","Discusses libels against his father, John\n Lowell, and against himself; encloses letters\n to editors printed in local papers in\n defense.","Including NCls. 6 pages.","Received his letters of 25 and 28 October\n and was astonished to learn that he feels he\n [John Marshall] deliberately and unnecessarily\n \"altered expressions which would be construed\n into the imputation of a crime..., against a\n gentleman...\"; there was no evidence in the\n cases decision that his [John Lowell] testimony\n was disregarded or discredited-- \"the opinion\n speaks for itself.\"","Brother \n [Bushrod]\n Washington had to adjourn the court at\n Philadelphia because of his illness; discusses\n a case on his [John Marshall's] circuit\n concerning the American ship, \n Pilot , captured\n by pirates and later recaptured by a squadron\n under \n Commodore\n [David] Porter ; comments upon the\n extreme bitterness of \n Mr. [John]\n Adams , whom he still respects, and the\n publication of some of his correspondence.","Received the President's message to\n Congress, and thanks him for his mark of polite\n attention; he [John Marshall] too thinks that\n \"we cannot look on the present state of the\n world with indifference.\"","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","Thanks him for the report of the Secretary\n of the Treasury.","Was uneasy that she heard of his accident\n before his letter reached her; his fall has\n kept him from court longer than he had\n expected; feels pain only when he moves;\n doctors say he is mending faster than they had\n expected; is treated with a great deal of\n kindness and attention; wives of the cabinet\n members call on him; passes the long hours of\n the night by thinking of her and their early\n life together.","Including Pst of ALS. 2 pages.","Will soon return to Richmond by steamboat;\n makes arrangements to have his servant, Oby,\n meet him at the dock to carry his portmanteau;\n is not able to use his arm; was surprised to\n see \n \n John and Elizabeth [(Alexander)\n Marshall] , who were in town because the\n boat on which they traveled was being repaired,\n and they were making their way to Baltimore by\n stage.","Including Pst of ALS. 2 pages.","Missed seeing him at Hanover Court House on\n Monday, presumably because of the cloudiness of\n the weather; will be there next court day to\n meet him unless it is inconvenient, in which\n case he [Tom] should let him [John Marshall]\n know immediately.","Has just finished reading the copy of his\n \"Dissertation on the Nature and Extent of the\n Jurisdiction of the Courts of the United\n States,\" which he sent to him [John Marshall];\n thanks him for the flattering manner in which\n he discusses some of his [John Marshall]\n opinions.","Thanks for sending a copy of his message to\n Congress; regrets that he [Monroe] is retiring,\n but congratulates him on his presidency.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","Reached Washington yesterday and paid his\n accustomed visit to the President; he [John\n Marshall] occupies the same room as last year;\n neither \n Judge\n [William] Johnson nor \n [Joseph]\n Story has arrived, and \n [Thomas]\n Todd is close to death; the roads were so\n good for the winter, he was glad he did not\n take the steamboat; rode from Hanover\n Courthouse to Fredericksburg with a Mrs.\n (Booth) Stone; dined with his aunt [?] Keith on\n Sunday; his nephew, William Marshall, visited\n him on Saturday; hopes that Mr. [?] Picket has\n filled the ice house already.","Including Pst of AL. 2 pages.","Discusses presidential election of 1824;\n ascribes it to the letters of [?] Kremer and to\n Mr. [?] Vanraensaeller's reluctant last-minute\n vote for [John Quincy] Adams; speculates about\n the Cabinet; including Mr. [?] Crawford's\n refusal of the Treasury, and \n [Henry]\n Clay's rumored acceptance of the State\n Department.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","Has received letters from his son and from\n his nephew, George [?], and has learned of the\n marriage of his [John Marshall] nephew, Edward\n Colston, who has moved to Honeywood, [Berkeley\n County, Virginia]; asks her to inform Mr. [?]\n Cole that he [John Marshall] has received his\n new black suit, and that \n [George]\n Kremer will soon print \"a most scurrilous\n piece of abuse against \n [Henry] Clay [an\n anonymous letter in the \n Columbia\n Observer accusing him of bargaining with\n John Quincy Adams to give his support in the\n presidential election in return for the office\n of Secretary of State]; her [Mary Willis Ambler\n Marshall] cousin, Mrs. [?] Walker, thanked him\n for his check and the subscription raised for\n her by the members of Congress.","Including Pst of AL. 2 pages.","Asks him to accept a copy of his\n [Marshall's] colonial history; congratulations\n him on the successful termination of his\n political career.","Is much honored by his election to the\n Bunker Hill Monument Association and asks what\n his membership will entail.","Has received his letters and documents\n stating his [Monroe's] claims on the U.S.;\n expects that he [Monroe] will receive as much\n as has ever been allowed to others for similar\n services.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","Thanks her for her letter recommending [?]\n Caldwell, but he has already pledged himself to\n another person seeking office.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","In response to his [John Marshall's]\n requests in his last letter, he [John Sergeant]\n is enclosing copies of Mr. [?] Giles' speech\n found in Dunlap and Claypoole's 16 December\n 1796 paper and in the \n Aurora of the\n 15th sources located at the [?] Library; and\n germane to his biography of Washington.","Thanks him for a copy of his [John\n Marshall's] history of the English colonies\n of North America which Joseph Story\n delivered a few weeks earlier; quotes Lord\n Kames [?] from his \n The Gentleman\n Farmer (1779); \"I disregard the\n present rebellion of our Americans; for they\n will soon be reduced to obedience;\"\n discusses present westward movement of the\n American population and predicts a new\n western confederacy of the movement of the\n national capital westward in the next\n generation; comments upon his [John\n Marshall's] statements on slavery,\n mentioning \n \n Colonel [Edward] Carrington's and \n Mr.\n [Thomas] Jefferson's views on\n miscegenation and the Colonization Society's\n efforts; discusses Georgia's \n \n Governor [George M.] Troup's detested\n views on the slaves and Creek Indians, which\n seem to be held by most Georgians, who would\n defy the authority of the Union if they\n dared; that authority rests on \"the purity,\n the intellegence and the firmness\" of the\n Supreme Court; hopes he [John Marshall] long\n remains at the head.","Has read \n Mr.\n [William Branch] Giles' latest article\n in the \n Richmond\n Enquirer on John Quincy Adams, which\n attributes his [John Quincy Adams's] \"past\n conversion to \n \n Jeffersonism \" to \" \n his own personal\n promotion and aggrandizement; \" Giles\n claims that Adams' message indicated his\n intentions to introduce unlimited powers\n into the government, but he [Timothy\n Pickering] disagrees; discusses Adams'\n policies regarding internal improvements, a\n national university, and the promotion of\n agriculture, all of which Washington\n recommended, and their constitutionality;\n discusses Giles, his character, and his\n political ambitions; writes of James\n Monroe's and William Pinckney's treaty with\n Great Britain and their letter to Congress,\n Monroe's bid for the Presidency, and his\n subsequent reconciliation with Jefferson;\n mentions Secretary of the State Robert\n Smith's correspondence with the British\n Minister [?] Jackson; his resignation, and\n published defense; discusses the death of\n Virginian U.S. District Court Judge Cyrus\n Griffin and the appointment of his successor\n John Tyler, ex-Governor of Virginia; which\n was made to make room for Monroe as\n Governor; Monroe was appointed to the State\n Department, \"the vestibule to the\n President's Palace,\" when Smith resigned;\n discusses Jefferson's motives for not laying\n the treaty with Great Britain before\n Congress; concludes with Joseph Hopkinson's\n thoughts on Jefferson, Madison, and\n Monroe.","Left Alexandria for Washington a day\n early because the weather was good for\n traveling; he, \n [Bushrod]\n Washington , and \n [Gabriel]\n Duval await the arrival of their\n brother \n Justices\n [Joseph] Story and \n [Smith]\n Thompson ; Judge Johnson went by way\n of Norfolk and will not arrive till\n Wednesday or Thursday; \n Judge\n [Thomas] Todd is unable to make the\n journey; discusses his journey and health:\n \"I am under the persecution of the\n infuenza;\" will open the court and wait on\n the President tomorrow.","Including Pst of ALS. 2 pages.","Discusses his daily routine and his\n health; \n [Judge\n Joseph] Story arrived today; he was\n delayed a week in Philadelphia by influenza;\n discusses a loan of $200 to Tom [Thomas\n Marshall, his son]; has received three\n invitations for dinner parties this week;\n discusses the gaiety of the Washington\n social scene; jests about Lucy Fisher [his\n niece] marrying [Dr. Daniel Norborne Norton]\n and persuading him to run for Congress.","John [Marshall,\n his son] passed through the city, but\n he did not have a chance to see him; was\n pleased to hear that she was well, expecting\n \"the uncommon warmth of the season had\n relaxed your system so as to distress your\n feelings;\" he enjoys his usual health; \"was\n at a very great crowd at \n Mrs.\n [John Quincy] Adams' drawing room;\"\n dined yesterday with \n \n Mr. [John] Randolph [of Roanoke] who\n is as much engaged in party politics as he\n has always been.","Including Pst of ALS. 2 pages.","Congratulates him on his good health;\n gives his thoughts on Southern slavery;\n mentions Georgia's Governor [George M.\n Troup] and the treaty with the Creeks;\n discusses \n Mr.\n [William Branch] Giles ; thanks him\n for his recollections of the events of the\n last twenty years.","Has received his letter expressing his\n interest in the position of the clerk of the\n Supreme Court; the applicants are numerous\n and worthy; recalls their former\n acquaintance, and is confident in his\n competence, but wants to make such an\n important appointment \"without any\n pre-engagements.\"","Replies to his letter recommending Mr.\n [?] Randall for the vacant office in the\n Clerkship of the Supreme Court; discusses\n his feelings regarding the appointment; has\n been having trouble with famine and\n drought.","Discusses marriage arrangements of his\n son \n \n Edward [Carrington Marshall] with the\n Judge's daughter.","Apologizes for his last letter of 15\n September 1826; did not realize that he\n [Fay] was opposed to Edward Carrington\n Marshall's marriage to his [Fay's] daughter;\n \"I hope Edward has received notice of your\n decision... It will be [a] kindness to\n awaken him as soon as possible from the\n dreams of happiness in which he has been too\n long indulging.\"","Has finally discovered the letters in the\n Aurora from 23\n October to 5 November 1795 written by the\n \"Calm Observer\" relating to the charge of\n illegal payment of the President's salary\n and the replies thereto by \n [Alexander]\n Hamilton and \n O.[?]\n Wolcott ; these were not written by \n [William\n Branch] Giles ; \n Judge\n [Bushrod] Washington had to break up\n his court because of ill-health.","Has received his letter by Mr. [?]\n Doddridge; apologizes for any inconvenience\n which may be caused by the disposal of the\n letters of recommendation which the\n recipient sent by Mr. [?] Rowan and Colonel\n [?] Johnson.","Discusses legal principles involved in\n the Fairfax lands case.","Including TCy of ALS. 4 pages.","Has seen in the papers discussions between\n his brother Johnson [?] and him [Timothy\n Pickering] respecting Count Pulaske [Pulaski]\n and the Battle of Germantown; \"with the\n exception of Judge [?] Peters, yourself, \u0026 \n Mr. [?]\n Wolcot[t] I can scarcely find any person\n who was conspicuous on the great theatre of our\n country when I first began to mix in public\n affairs;\" asks if he will travel south to\n Washington; discusses George Washington and his\n firmness of character.","Encloses a check on the bank of Winchester\n for $600 to be endorsed to Mr. [?] Smith; was\n surprised that the sale of the land was $200\n less than he thought; Alexander Marshall\n informed him [John Marshall] that he settled\n $200 which he owed him with Mr. Smith; finished\n cutting his wheat and rye last week; his corn\n has suffered from the cold wet spring and now\n from drought; discusses weather and crop\n pests.","Including Pst of ALS. 3 pages.","Discusses the science of agriculture and\n whether or not it should be taught at a\n university.","Has read the review which will be published\n in the forthcoming January 1828 edition of the \n North American\n Review of his [John Marshall's] \n History of the\n Colonies ; encloses a copy of it; hopes\n to meet him in January and introduce Mrs. Story\n to him.","Has received his flattering letter and\n biography of him and warmly expresses his\n gratitude; accommodations for Mrs. Story may be\n had at Mr. [?] Rapine's in Washington;\n discusses the present contest for the\n Presidency; fears that \"our constitution is not\n to be so long lived as its real friends have\n hoped.\"","Thanks him for a copy of his speech on\n \"retrenchment and reform;\" intended to call\n on him, but the pressure of official duties\n and the indolence of age have prevented\n it.","Including TCy of ALS. 2 pages.","Must decline his invitation to be his\n companion on the \n \n Potomac because of his ill health;\n Mr. [?] Sheppherd has given a good account\n of \"our Jacobin Banker's Clerk\" [?];\n discusses Sheppherd's and the clerk's\n lives.","Begs him to accept his portrait painted\n by \n Mr.\n [Chester] Harding in Washington as a\n token of his sincere and affectionate\n friendship; will not send it to Richmond\n until \n Mr.\n [Horatio] Greenough casts his bust;\n enjoyed a pleasant trip from Washington to\n Richmond where he has seen none but his\n family since his return; the spirit of party\n is extremely bitter, but he plans to leave\n for the upper country; had one of his\n [Joseph Story's] fish yesterday; received\n news from Mr. [?] McGruder of the loss of\n his [John Marshall's] sortout.","Takes the liberty to write him; regrets\n that it was necessary for him [John\n Marshall] to announce publicly his feelings\n on the election, because it will not subject\n him to the abuse of the partisans.","Did not have a chance to answer \n Mr.\n [Chester] Harding's letter asking what\n should be done with his [John Marshall's]\n portrait; if he [Chester Harding] is in\n Boston, have him deliver it to you [Joseph\n Story]; asks him [Joseph Story] to take care\n of it till he [John Marshall] can have it\n and his bust sent to Richmond; discusses how\n the \n \n Marylander misquoted him on the\n coming election; an epidemic has prevailed\n extensively in Richmond.","Has received his letter and is grateful\n for his kind words; although the still burnt\n Kentucky Whiskey is nauseous to my palate,\n \"I can yet enjoy the aroma of an exquisite\n glass of Madeira, or Paxasete, or Burgundy\n and I doubt whether my head would have been\n more affected by a bottle of Clos Von gedt,\n capped with another of such [silvery?]\n Champagne, than by your truly kind\n note.\"","Discusses the recipient's proposed\n amendment to a bill before the House of\n Representatives concerning the U.S. Circuit\n Court System.","Letter declining their honor of joining\n the Richmond and Manchester Sabbath School\n in a 4th of July procession, not because he\n does not believe in the principles inspiring\n it, but because he must leave town due to\n Mrs. Marshall's feeble health; (the letter\n was probably written and signed by a\n secretary).","Cannot satisfy his request to send him\n letters with autographs of the Virginian\n signers of the Declaration of Independence\n as they have not been preserved or contain\n private communications; has read and enjoyed\n the sermons he sent; discusses the nature of\n church and state in post-Revolutionary\n Virginia; gratified by his [William B.\n Sprague's] sermon on intemperance and gives\n his [John Marshall's] views on the\n subject.","Discusses a land case concerning Mrs. [?]\n Clarke and Mr. [?] Swan, and Mr. [?]\n Pollard; have no further communications with\n Swan as \"he has no idea of...frank dealing\";\n Mr. [?] Fiske wrote that he can lend money\n for Mrs. [?] Carrington; please send down\n his [John Marshall's] ponies with Charles\n Smith or Mr. [?] Colston.","Has just received Mr. [?] Triplett's\n letter and is willing to allow him 20%\n commission on the money he may collect from\n the estate of Mr. [?] Davies [?]; discusses\n arrangements for drawing money on his [John\n Marshall's] account; asks him to pay costs\n incurred in the execution of the above\n matter; discusses election of \n General\n [Andrew] Jackson .","Makes arrangements to pay [ ] $1000 to\n Swan for a land purchase.","Has received his letter concerning news\n of the birth of \n \n Margaret's [(Lewis)\n Marshall]'s nephew; mentions health of\n his family, including the children's\n whooping cough; prices in the Alex[andri]a\n flour market and how the dry weather is\n affecting crops; writes of his own\n agricultural efforts, including the\n operation of a large roller for his corn\n fields; has been unable to send down the\n horses; will attend a sale at Westover on\n Mr. [?] Lewis's request; Mr. Lewis, Mr. [?]\n Coiston, and \n Mr.\n Cha[rle]s B. Smith are not able to\n take the horses to him [John Marshall] or to\n Aunt [?] Carrington.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","Has finished reading his centennial\n discourse on the first settlement of Salem;\n was touched by his portrayal of the story of\n the Indians; especially enjoyed the passages\n respecting the Lady Arabella Johnson; read\n with interest his sketch of the recently\n deceased \n [Robert]\n Trimble , brother Supreme Court\n Justice; congratulates him on the\n appointment of \n [Joseph]\n Hopkinson [to the Eastern District of\n Pennsylvania District Court Judgeship].","The case will not be finished till\n Saturday and he [John Marshall] will not be\n home till Tuesday; had a pleasant sail down\n the river to Norfolk; boards in a very\n agreeable house.","Including Pst of ALS. 1 page.","Requests him to purchase two more copies\n of \n [Joseph]\n Story's three volume [ \n Public and General\n Statutes passed by the Congress of the\n United States, 1789-1827 ] for the\n Supreme Court.","The sick [Supreme Court] judges have\n arrived; he continues his morning walks;\n they dined with the President and \n Mrs.\n [John Quincy] Adams on Friday;\n discusses their feelings on \n [Andrew]\n Jackson's election; Jackson is\n expected in the city in a fortnight;\n mentions Mrs. Jackson's death; discusses his\n [John Marshall's] dinner invitations; tell\n Mr. [?] Call [Cole?] the secretaries are\n sick, and \n [Henry]\n Clay caught a cold by attending the\n colonization society; discusses the upcoming\n inauguration.","Including Pst of ALS. 2 pages. Also\n including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","Encloses a letter to be sent to Mr. [?]\n Payne; imagines that Oby has carried out the\n clover seed from the cellar; received news\n from his son \n James\n [Keith Marshall] that she was not\n well; has written to his son in a feeble\n attempt to console him [Thomas Marshall on\n the death of his wife Margaret]; receive\n news from \n Jaquelin\n [Marshall] of his new son, Jaquelin\n Jr.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page. Including\n Pst of ALS. 2 pages.","Has had no news of her and is worried;\n discusses her delicate health; received news\n from his son \n \n Edward [Carrington Marshall] who\n grieves for his brother's [Thomas's] loss;\n received a serious and very religious letter\n from Thomas, who is much occupied with his\n children and superintends his son John's\n education.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","Answers his letter of 21 February; is\n pleased that he has turned to religion and\n reason in handling his grief in losing his\n wife; is glad that he has kept John at hand\n [instead of sending him to Princeton]; an\n epidemic has hit the University [of\n Virginia] at Charlottesville, and a son of\n General [?] Jones is dying of the fever;\n this city [Washington] is full of\n office-sickness; discusses the spoils\n system.","Has received his letter enclosing a copy\n of \n Judge\n [Joseph] Hopkinson's commission; will\n attend Virginia's constitutional convention\n as a delegate; explains his feelings\n regarding his election to the convention and\n to its being convened.","Has received his letter accompanying his\n anniversary address to the Suffolk bar and \n Mr. [John]\n Brazer's discourse at the interment of\n Dr.\n [Edward] Holyoke ; advises him against\n precipitous fulfillment of the publication\n requirements for his Dane Professorship [at\n Harvard]; his attention has been turned to\n the two great cases before the Supreme\n Court; place your thoughts of them on paper;\n Mr. [Smith]\n Thompson will look into the New York\n case; discusses the matters which will come\n before the Virginia constitutional,\n convention: property qualifications, senate\n apportioning, basis of representation,\n freehold suffrage.","After much hesitation, he must complain\n to him about his barking dog which has\n distressed his [John Marshall's] wife who is\n in very poor health; is extremely apologetic\n over causing any inconvenience.","Including Pst of ALS. 1 page.\n (Incomplete).","Has read his discourses pronounced as\n Dane Professor of Law at Harvard; is\n impressed with his teaching efforts: \"Our\n southern youths would stumble at the\n threshhold [of your most appalling course]..\n .You yankees have more perseverence\"; no\n hopes that he lives to read his lectures;\n still regrets being a member of Virginia's\n constitutional convention.","Will be unable to accept his invitation\n as he is leaving town on Saturday and will\n be busy until then.","Accepts his election as \n [Bushrod]\n Washington's successor' in some\n honorary position [President of the American\n Colonization Society?].","Has finished reading his 1809 Fourth of\n July oration and his December 1828 speech\n \"on the constitutionality of the Tariff and\n the true nature of state government;\" his\n speech in the Senate was well-argued: \"Is it\n possible that South Carolina can withstand\n so powerful an appeal to... her patriotism..\n .and her real interest?\"; is flattered by\n the notice he took of the author of the Life\n of Washington [John Marshall] in his\n notes.","Writes of his son \n Edward [C.\n Marshall] who is a proud new father;\n dined with the President [Andrew Jackson]\n and his [Andrew Jackson's] niece \n \n Mrs. [Andrew Jackson] [Emily]\n Donelson ; saw Tom Francis a week ago;\n Judges\n [William] Johnson and \n [John]\n McLean do not board with the other\n judges; \n Judge\n [Smith] Thompson is sick; complains\n about not receiving his rent from his\n tenants Mr. [?] Sprigg on the Potomac and\n another at Anderson's Bottoms.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","Discusses the dinner parties which he and\n his brother Justices have attended; the\n Secretary of State [Martin van Buren] gave\n one for the new bride of the President's\n [Andrew Jackson's] nephew [?]; he dined\n yesterday with the British Minister; the\n influenza is as prevalent as it was in\n Richmond; \n Judge\n [Gabriel] Duval left town because of a\n relapse of his son; \n James\n [Kieth Marshall, his son] wrote three\n days past about his brother \n \n Edward [Carrington Marshall] ;\n mentions Washington's Birthday Celebrations\n effect on her.","Including Pst of ALS. 3 pages. Including\n TCy of ALS. 2 pages.","Heard from his granddaughter that she\n [Mary Willis Ambler Marshall] became\n indisposed upon her return from\n Chickahominy; has received a letter from his\n son James who sold his horse for $l000[?]; \n Mr. [Joseph]\n Story , who has been laid up for a\n week under the doctor's hand has returned to\n court.","Including Pst of ALS. 2 pages.","Discusses his morning routine; dined\n yesterday with Mr. [?] Swann; \n Mr. [Joseph]\n Story is still not well enough to go\n out; talked about his nephew William [?]\n with Mr. [?] Mercer; Tom Francis took a\n stage for Kentucky; saw Mr. [?] Coleman,\n husband of his niece Lucy [?], who is a\n strong Jackson man; his [John Marshall's]\n nephew \n Tom\n [Marshall] son of \n Humphry\n [Marshall] is a strong Clay man, and\n will oppose Mr. Coleman in the next\n Congressional election; party plays havoc\n with the Kentucky part of his [John\n Marshall's] family.","Encloses papers which \n Mr.\n [Francis Scott] Key could not present\n to the Court in person.","Sends his respects to the Chief Justice;\n makes arrangements to see him.","Discusses arrangements to have his\n father's [Thomas Marshall] will proved in\n the Virginia General Court so they can rule\n on his [Revolutionary War?] claim for half\n pay.","Including Pst. of ALS. 2 pages.","Discusses land transactions with Capt.\n Slaughter and Major Thompsons; mentions Mr.\n [?] John Lewis's sale of his slaves to pay\n off Warner Lewis's debts; discusses their\n financial difficulties with Mr. [?] Nicholas\n and Mr. [?] Smith; encloses a promissory\n note of Edward C. and Mary Nelson Marshall\n on the Farmers Bank of Virginia for\n $5000.","Discusses his [James Hillhouse] 1808\n proposal of electing the president by\n drawing straws among Senators; he [John\n Marshall] was opposed to it in the past, but\n has seen too much strife and bitterness in\n party politics.","Including TCy of ALS. 2 pages.","Thanks him for sending a sermon on the\n late Massachusetts Chief Justice [Isaac\n Parker] and his [Joseph Story's] own sketch\n of Parker's Character; thanks him also for a\n box of fish; is sorry that brother \n Justice\n [John] McLean could not acquiesce in\n the \n [Craig V.] Missouri\n case ; is-chagrined that so many\n cases, including Soulard, Smith and Cathcart\n and Robertson, were left incomplete at their\n last setting; discusses \n Mr. [James]\n Madison's letter to the editor of the \n North American\n Review .","Letter of reference for Capt. [?] Baylis\n who served with him during the\n Revolution.","Heard from \n Colo.[nel] [?]\n Lambert that she was in her usual\n health; discusses the latest snowfall; dined\n with the minister of France and his wife,\n neither of whom could speak English; dined\n with Secretary of State Martin van Buren\n yesterday; saw Mr. [?] Robinson yesterday\n who gave news of his [John Marshall's]\n sister \n [Elizabeth]\n Colston and her family.","Including Pst of ALS. 2 pages.","Enjoyed calling on Mrs. [?] Sedgwick\n author of \n Hope\n Leslie today; the snow and ice has\n interrupted regular mail delivery from\n Richmond; they have lost their Marshal [?]\n Ringold, whose being ousted from office will\n distress his family.","On verso, \n J[ohn]\n Marshall to [Edward Carrington\n Marshall]. Asks him to find a valuable 1776\n English pamphlet on the Declaration of\n Independence which Mr. [?] Storrs lent him\n [John Marshall] and which he misplaced.","Sent him a barrel of hams on the schooner\n King to be\n deposited with Fisher and Pewer of Boston;\n asks him what the \"wise men in the East\"\n think of the Cabinet upheaval; discusses\n arrangements for new quarters in Washington\n as the Justices will no longer be lodging\n with Mr. [?] Brown; discusses the copy of\n Algernon Sianey [\"Letters.. .in Defence of\n Civil Liberty and against the Encroachments\n of Military Despotism\"?] which he [John\n Marshall] sent him [Joseph Story] earlier;\n discusses possibility of war and the reform\n in Great Britain; will set out on his\n circuit at the end of the week.","Arrived yesterday; thanks her for the\n cushion she made him to ease his journey;\n discusses the visit of a niece.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","Received his letter and hams; regrets\n that the Court is moving out of Mr. brown's;\n would like to lodge with him [John Marshall]\n and Judge Thompson; discusses the break-up\n of the cabinet, which was a surprise to him;\n thanks him for the Algernon Sidney pamphlet;\n informs him of the death of his [Joseph\n Story's] 10 year old daughter.","Received his letters of May 25 and 31 and\n adopted his opinions respecting admiralty\n jurisdiction; discusses arrangements for\n lodgings in Washington next winter and\n explains why he cannot do anything till he\n hears from \n Judge\n [Henry] Baldwin ; sympathizes with him\n over the loss of his child; tells of his\n similar experiences; he also wrote a poem in\n the occasion of his child's death, which he\n would have enclosed, but it was lost.","Thanks him for his letter of 9 September;\n has conversed with \n Judge\n [Joseph] Story about the Declaration\n of Independence; discusses his [John Quincy\n Adams] ideas about it and the constitutional\n principles of state sovereignty, secession,\n and nullification.","Discusses his medical examination by \n \n Doctor [Philip Syng] Physick ; will\n probably not see her again till he rides the\n circuit court 22 November; the gentlemen of\n the city, especially those of the bar, are\n painfully solicitous to show their respect;\n Nr.[?] Peters and Dr. [?] Gillespie press\n him to stay with them; gives directions for\n his crops to be tended to.","Including Pst of ALS. 2 pages.","The rains of the last several days have\n prevented \n Dr.\n [Philip Syng] Physick from operating;\n discusses preparations for his medical\n treatment; missed Cary Ambler's visit\n because he was sitting for a portrait;\n Edward Ambler is in town; received a letter\n from brother \n [Joseph]\n Story ; mentions his diet.","Including Pst of ALS. 2 pages.","Discusses his medical treatment and \n \n Doctor [Philip Syng] Physick ; \n \n Brother [Justice Henry] Baldwin is\n here; discusses the arrangements for the\n Justices' lodgings in Washington, either at\n Mrs. [?] Peyton's or Mr. [?] Peters';\n explains why he did not think he would serve\n on the court at its next session; discusses\n his health and ailments of the past\n summer.","Mr. [?] Giles will give news of his\n health; describes his ailment (\"stones in\n the bladder\") and the Doctor's examination;\n his operation by \n \n Doctor [Philip Syng] Physick has been\n delayed because of the weather; describes\n the Doctor and his [John Marshall's]\n accommodations; tell Major [?] Ambler that\n his brothers Edward and Cary are in\n town.","Heard of and congratulates him on\n successful operation; regards his health as\n \"a matter of the highest national\n concernment...\"","On verso, [John Marshall, to Edward\n Everett], incomplete. Is flattered by his\n kina token; describes his tedious operation;\n thanks him for his letter.","Learned from Mr. [?] Peters that he was\n seriously indisposed; intends to leave for\n Richmond next week; discusses difficulties\n in their living arrangements; they will\n probably quarter with [?] Ringold; \n Mr.\n [William] Johnson will live by\n himself, and \n [John]\n McLean will preserve his former\n position; \n Brother\n [Henry] Baldwin presides over the\n circuit court in session now in\n Philadelphia; describes his [John\n Marshall's] operation and medicine.","Discusses the latest legal difficulties\n involving the Fairfax lands; his wife [Mary\n Willis (Ambler) Marshall] lies at death's\n door.","Including TCy of ALS. 3 pages.","Discusses a pamphlet to which he [Henry\n Lee] alluded in his letter; mentions \n [Thomas]\n Jefferson's \"unjustifiable aspersions\"\n on his [John Marshall's] conduct and\n principles; writes of his own and \n [George]\n Logon's experiences with the\n Revolutionary government of France; mentions\n the journal he kept in Paris.","Certificate of the Clerk of the Circuit\n Court of Fauquier County dated 16 March\n 1961.","Makes arrangements for the sale of \n \n Edward's [Carrington Marshall's] bank\n shares; her brother Tom [Thomas Marshall]\n tears that he will not win his election\n because he raises the clerk's fees.","He was gratified by his complimentary\n comments on the speech he [Richard Henry\n Wilde] sent him [John Marshall]; sends him\n Mr. [?] Ingham's report on the relative\n value of gold and silver and Mr. [?] White's\n reports on coins; mentions Mr. [?] Jacob's\n work on the subject.","Thanks him for sending him the first\n volume of the \n American Library of\n Useful Knowledge ; the Librarian of\n Congress has asked him [John Marshall] to\n help spend $5000 on law books for the\n library, and he [John Marshall] asks him\n [Joseph Story] to suggest titles; discusses \n [Charles]\n Mercer and the Bank Question and\n internal improvements in Virginia; the party\n guide \n The\n Enquirer is unable to make \n Mr. [John]\n Barbour \"pull in the traces;\"\n discusses national politics and the threat\n of nullification; comments upon the Cholera\n epidemics in the seaports of New York and\n Boston.","Has received and read his essay \n A Congress of\n Nations for the Amicable Adjustments of\n National Differences; Feels that its\n argument is well arranged and supported by\n applicable biblical quotations, but is also\n impracticable.","Is having difficulties selling his stock\n for him; there is a severe outbreak of\n cholera in Richmond; discusses the disease;\n is relieved to hear that he is restored to\n health and that John Harvie is getting\n better; discusses the disabling of his\n horse.","Thanks him for his help in selecting\n titles for the congressional law library;\n discusses his choice of books; is gratified\n that his course on constitutional law [at\n Harvard] nears completion; shares his gloomy\n prospects of the country; \"The case of the\n south seems to me to be desperate.. .The\n union has been prolonged thus far by\n miracles. I fear they cannot continue.\"","Discusses how he sold his [James Keith\n Marshall's] and \n \n Edward's [Carrington\n Marshall's] stock; hopes his\n merchandising speculation will be\n successful; congratulates him on the birth\n of his daughter; has just returned from Mr.\n White's son's funeral, who died of cholera;\n discusses the disease.","Thanks him for the dedication of his new\n book; congratulates him upon its completion;\n the [Virginia] legislature is in session;\n discusses Andrew Jackson's response to\n nullification and his party's reaction to\n it; writes of Virginia's relationship to\n South Carolina and the possibility of their\n joining in a southern confederacy; thanks\n him for a copy of \n Mr.\n [Daniel] Webster's speech; mentions \n \n Brother Justice [Henry]\n Baldwin's sickness.","Encloses a power of attorney authorizing him\n to draw what is coming to him [Thomas A.\n Marshall] on account of grandfather's [Col.\n Thomas Marshall] halt pay; discusses Congress\n and the Nullification crisis; mentions \n Judge [Henry]\n Baldwin's misfortune and that \n Judge\n [Smith] Thompson is in town.","Including ADS. 2 pages. 3 January 1833.\n Power of attorney granting John Marshall the\n right to draw the money due Thomas A. Marshall\n as heir to Colonel Thomas Marshall,\n Revolutionary War veteran entitled to the half\n pay pension; signed by Justice of the Peace\n D.A. Hall.","Returns his portfolio of drawings of\n Washington and pictures of Revolutionary\n Boston; recalls traveling to Richmond with him\n once.","Informs him that his son was accepted to\n West Point; does not think the Tariff bill or\n the bill concerning South Carolina's\n legislature will pass Congress.","Received his letter of 27 April; discusses \n Mr. [Edmund]\n Pendleton ; mentions a copy of a letter\n from Mr. Carr in the possession of Col. John\n Nichols; Augustine Davis may have published it;\n his [Charles Carter's] brother has written to\n Mr. [?] Sujt in regards to it; discusses \n Mr. [Edmund]\n Pendleton , \n [Thomas]\n Jefferson , and the XYZ dispatch.","Discusses Lt. Randolph's case, Mr. Watkin's\n case, the power of arrest, and the Judiciary\n Act; rejoices at the abridgement of his \n Commentaries for\n the public; discusses its place in colleges and\n universities.","Discusses the national fervor in France\n based upon the martial glory of Napoleon and\n demonstrated by the statue at the top of the\n column of Austerlitz in the \n Place de\n Vendome ; compares Napoleon's popularity\n with the people to that of George Washington's,\n Hannibal's, and Ceasar's; all were \"victims of\n the infernal machine\" [party politics];\n discusses national politics and \n [Martin] Van\n Buren .","Discusses the addition \n James [K.\n Marshall] is making to the house at Leeds\n for his father [John Marshall]; mentions \n Jaquelin's\n [Marshall] experiences of housing slaves\n in basements at Prospect Hill; mentions the\n weather and growth of crops and the health of\n his [Thomas Marshall's] daughter Mary; \n \n Aunt [Elizabeth (Marshall)] Colston is in\n poor health and will probably not visit\n Richmond this Winter; his [Thomas Marshall's]\n son John's plans have changed and he has bought\n Mr. [?] Smith's tract of land; tell Mr. [?]\n Tiffin that the girls have never received the\n box of articles he sent to Mr. [?] Cawood by\n steamboat.","Including TCy of ALS. 2 pages.","Has just received a letter from Mr. [?]\n Ringold who has moved from Washington and can\n not accommodate them next winter; \"the\n political world.., is surely moved \n topsy turvy ;\"\n mentions southern states insistence on state\n sovereignty; asks him about \n \n Brother [Justice John?] McClain\n [McLean's?] opinion in Tennessee.","Discusses the 1793 contract signed with\n Denny Fairfax for the Manor of Leeds and the\n South Branch Manor; suggests strategies to\n prove their legal title to the land.","Discusses the purchase of land and the\n legalities it would entail; mentions the\n possibility of mortgaging the Mont Blanc estate\n for a loan.","His present, a copy of his \n Commentaries [on\n the Constitution] and Allison's Sermons, has\n arrived on the \n Lucy and\n Abigail ; has sent him copies of his\n [John Marshall's] \n Life of\n Washington to be delivered to \n [Daniel]\n Webster , \n [John Quincy]\n Adams ; the Massachusetts Historical\n Society, the Boston Athanaeum (which\n complimented him by having his portrait painted\n for their gallery), and Mrs. [?] Ledyard;\n discusses publication of his [Joseph Story's] \n Commentaries ,\n which will not be popular in the South;\n discusses \n [Henry]\n Clay's Tariff bill.","Discusses sale of his [James K. Marshall's]\n land; inform \n Edward\n [Carrington Marshall] that he [John\n Marshall] is pleased with the terms on which he\n has not rented Mont Blanc; will not leave for\n the country till July when he will visit\n [Fauquier White Sulphur] Springs; the May wheat\n has been injured by frost.","Questions him about the defeat of \n [John]\n Hardin at the battle of the St. Joseph\n reported in his [John Marshall's] \n Life of\n Washington ; asks him to check with \n Mr. [Jared]\n Sparks if it was really fought on Paint\n Creek; discusses the elections of the Virginia\n legislature; mentions Martin van Buren.","Describes how George Washington convinced\n him to run for Congress in 1798.","Would have written upon his return from\n Washington, but was seriously injured in the\n stage; cannot find and send him a letter in\n George Washington's hand as requested; does\n enclose a military appointment of 1799 with\n Washington's signature.","Hopes his injury will not be permanent;\n fears the loss to the nation if he resigns; has\n \"cleared the decks for the great legal\n conflict.\"","Discusses arrangements regarding the\n acquisition of Mrs. [?] Kennon's [?]\n negroes.","Discusses Mr. [?] Warden's and Mr.\n Washington's and Brooke's suits which he\n [Charles Lee] agreed to look into for him [John\n Marshall].","A friend from the West has pointed out an\n error in his [John Marshall's] manuscript which\n he would like to correct as follows: \"v.2 p.207\n 1.27 at \"Chilicothe\".. .\"not Chilicothe on the\n Scioto in Ohio, but ... an old Indian village\n then standing about seventy-five miles rather\n East of North from Cincinnati...","Has had some difficulty weighing and selling\n his Parkinson breed of hogs because they were\n too large and their meat is not sweet enough;\n discusses purchases made for him, Mary, Fanny\n Burwell, and Maria Willis according to his\n directions; is surprised at the magnitude of\n his [Thomas Marshall's] debts; lectures on\n paying them off.","Informs him that his rent for the Campbell\n [?] land belonging to his [John Marshall's]\n father's estate is due.","Accepts the President's invitation to dinner\n next Thursday at four.","Discusses the last letter which he [John\n Randolph Roanoke] sent to him [John\n Marshall].","[Both are sisters of John Marshall's wife, Mary\n Willis (Ambler) Marshall.]. Discusses her and her\n husband's, [Colonel Edward Carrington], visit with\n the Washington family at Mount Vernon and the\n impending delivery of Mrs. L. Custis Lewis's first\n child; describes their visit to the new national\n capitol on the Potomac; writes of their return to\n Mount Vernon and of their diversions there, which\n include hunting deer and taking care of the new\n baby, or \"the pretty little stranger\"; describes a\n chambermaid and other servants; comments upon\n domestic fashions and describes the furnishings of\n the mansion, which concludes with a description of\n the estate with its greenhouse and gardens, and of\n their host's [George Washington] treatment of his\n many visitors.","Including TCy of ALS. 6 pages.","[Mary Willis (Ambler) Marshall, Richmond,\n Virginia]. Hopes that she will send for her in\n April, although her Aunt [Elizabeth (Marshall)\n Colston] says that it is unlikely; Uncle [Rawleigh\n Colston] is upset at all the letters she is\n sending, and refuses to pay postage on them;\n wanted to buy muslin in Martinsburg to make her a\n handkerchief and a cap for sister [?]; discusses\n her French lessons with her tutor, Mr. LeRoy, and\n incidents of his exasperation with Tom [Thomas M.\n Colston], Tom \n [Thomas]\n Marshall [a cousin], and Rawleigh [a cousin,\n Raleigh T. Colston], Cousin \n Edward\n [Colston] cruelly takes delight in telling\n her that she will not be able to go home until\n fall, and \"Uncle says he does not think you love\n me enough to ... send for me...\"","Including TCy of ALS. 2 pages.","Has already conveyed his [James Markham\n Marshall's] undiscarded half of land at the forks\n of the Licking [Fauquier County?]; no longer has\n an interest in it, but will convey the novelty to\n him [Martin P. Marshall] at any time; \"lament[s]\n extremely the misunderstanding between yourself\n and Tom...\"; Lucy Marshall is in Fauquier\n [County].","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","Was lucky he came down on Tuesday, For he found\n his daughter, Nancy, ill, which has caused them to\n postpone their return to Weyanoke, [Virginia]; has\n cone a little transferring for Father; has been\n playing chess with Mr. [?] James? Taylor of\n Norfolk; instructs Agnes [his daughter] to attend\n to her studies in Richmond; hopes her [Mary Willis\n (Ambler) Marshall] trip to Chickahominy did not\n fatigue her.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","Mentions changes made in the college government\n at Harvard College; complains of college life -\n \"probably no life is so uninteresting to others as\n that of a merely literary man. An indolent\n collegian especially has nothing to say for\n himself...\"; mentions his classes: Electricity,\n Astronomy, and Moral Philosophy; describes his\n \"chums,\" [?] Turner, [?J Bonaparte, a nephew of\n the Emperor, [?] Cheves, son of Langdon Cheves,\n [?] Bruce, of Halifax County, and his cousin [?]\n Birchett; discusses dining arrangements at\n Harvard: \"We have a large table, confined to\n southerners, and what are called gentlemen\n Yankees\"; looks forward with great anxiety to\n graduating in ten months.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","Most of her bank stock is to be distributed to\n her children and their children, although she\n leaves five bank shares for her \"faithful friend\n and house keeper Mrs. Francis Martyr\" and her\n daughter Anne and ten dollars a year in perpetuity\n to the school for orphan children established by\n the Ladies of Richmond.","Including TCy of AD. 1 page.","Discusses the publication of the last Census\n and its effects on Congressional apportionment;\n discusses railroads and canals; writes of\n abolition in Loudoun and Fauquier Counties,\n [Virginia].","Informs her of her brother [Thomas Marshall's]\n accident in Baltimore and of his impending death;\n Father [John Marshall] has rallied from his severe\n cold, but does not continue to improve; he has\n taken cold again, is feeble, and has no appetite;\n he apprehends the worst.","Describes the weather; Mrs. [?] Mayo has the\n gout; Mary Archer and family are well; Margaret\n and Agnes Douthat are with her; Robert Pickett\n said nothing about paying back the loan; discusses\n his daughters' lessons under Mr. [?] Daley; gives\n directions for the farm; writes of \n General\n [Jaquelin] Harvie ; discusses arrangements\n for her Christmas trip and for her slaves; asks\n about his daughters Claudia and Maria Willis.","Including TCy of ALS. 2 pages. Including Pst of\n ALS. 2 pages.","Writes a favorable recommendation for Dr. J. W.\n Leach who has resided in Fauquier County a few\n years and practiced medicine \"with success and\n usefulness,\" but who desires to move to the city\n to \"improve his fortunes and educate his\n children.\"","Including ANS from \n D[aniel]\n W[ebster] , n.p., n.d. to Mr. Bell, n.p.,\n recommending A.J. Marshall \"son [nephew] of the\n late \n Ch[ief]\n Jus[tice] \u0026 a very reputable man.\"","Handwritten copy [by Alice Colston?]; tells him\n to draw on his [Edward Colston's] money at the\n Valley Bank. of Winchester and send $10 to Raleigh\n Edward at Lexington and the rest to \n W[illiam]\n Leigh .","Including Cy of ADS, (in same hand); 12 October\n 1840, Elizabeth Colston's will; bequeaths her\n slaves and other worldly possessions to her\n children and grandchildren. 4 pages.","Includes an engraving of a spread-eagled\n American bald eagle bearing a lyre with the motto\n \"Nunc Sidera Ducit\" surrounded by thirteen stars;\n also bears the seal of the Department of State;\n the passport stamps show that Harvie visited\n France, Belgium, Austria, Switzerland, Holland ,\n Italy, Spain, Algeria, Rome, Naples, and Germany\n from May 1858 to March 1859.","Describes railroad travel in Virginia;\n discusses his visit in Richmond; mentions Col. [?]\n Mason's and \n G[overn]or\n [John B.] Floyd's efforts at arousing\n sentiment for immediate secession; mentions prices\n of railroad tickets.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page. Including Pst of\n ALS. 2 pages.","Including PDS. 1 page. Acceptance and oath of\n Frank G. Rutfin signed in Richmond before James\n Ellett, Notary Public, on 19 August 1861.","Thanks her for writing to him in Miss [?]\n Harvie's behalf and for granting him an extension;\n the publishers will finish the reproducing within\n three weeks at which time he will return the\n miniture [sic] to her aunt; distressed to hear of\n Anne Harvie's death.","Including Pst of ALS. 1 page. Incomplete.","Including Pst of ADS. 2 pages. 30 November\n 1771. Another indenture signed by Fairfax leasing\n land in the Manor of Leeds to William Seth.","Does not view the consequences of their success\n in the election [of 1800] in as favorable a light\n as he [John Page] does; speculates on what would\n have been the result of the election had there\n been no contest between the \"two Gentlemen who\n stood highest\" [Jefferson and Burr], and if \n [Charles\n Cotesworter] Pin[c]key or \n [John] Adams had\n opposed Jefferson; speculates on the \"presumption\"\n of the Federalist view that should \"no election...\n take place, Mr. Adams is, under the Constitution,\n to continue in office until a successor be\n appointed; \n that is until the next\n election of course \"; says appointments of\n John Marshall as Chief Justice, seventeen new\n judges, and [?] Bayard \"the most unacceptable man\n that could be sent to the French republic,\"\n nominated as minister plenipotentiary -- all\n extend the influence of the Federalists and throw\n an obstacle in the way of Jefferson's\n administration; adds a few lines typical of what\n he sees as Federalist sentiment; and writes of\n their friendship.","Since he [John Randolph] is not long for this\n world, is anxious to settle his affairs; \"should\n you decide upon a settlement south of \n \n Philad[elphi]a (which God forbid) I am\n desirous that you should fix yourself as soon as\n possible on the plantation below the mouth of\n little Roanoke...[Bizarre Plantation?];\" his [John\n Randolph's] infirmity has prevented him from\n giving the estate the requisite attention, and it\n is much encumbered with debt; discusses his\n failing health: \"there is something radically a\n miss in the system. The machine cannot last much\n longer.\"","Thanks him for compliance with his request\n \"thru our mutual friend Mr. John Marshall\"; will\n write soon; sends paper for Capt. Brown.","Comments on events in Washington which instill\n \"deep regret and surprize\"; mentions the election\n in Kentucky; says the antimasonic excitement will\n likely be \"troublesome\" but he will not get\n involved in it; has not heard from Mr. [?] Hammond\n for a long time but does not distrust him but\n disagrees over the issue of the representation of\n Ohio in the Baltimore Convention; glad to hear of\n his [James F. Conover] professional prospects.","Discusses the case of [?] Randolph being heard\n by \n \n U.S. District Court Judge [Philip P.]\n Barbour .","Chief\n Justice [John] Marshall died in Philadelphia\n last Monday, perfectly in his senses to the last;\n the news reached here only this morning, and his\n remains at 4 p.m.; describes the funeral\n procession.","Encloses the diploma of the historical\n Institute of France which just elected John\n Marshall a member on his [Henry Lee's]\n recommendation; describes Marshall's election to\n that society.","Is happy about her recovery; quotes\n Shakespeare; describes his own health; writes of\n his political campaigning in King and Queen, King\n William, and Hanover counties, [Virginia];\n describes her old neighborhood and farm, now\n occupied by Fleetwood Academy; discusses George\n Haskins situation, mentioning his lack of slaves;\n gossips about affairs in King and Queen County;\n discusses the unusual weather; tells an Irish\n joke; discusses \n [Henry]\n Clay's tariff.","One was a wax portrait in basso-relievo donated by\n Horace Edwin Hayden to the Virginia Historical\n Society in 1881; another was the bronze monument by\n W.W. Story which stands on the terrace of the U. S.\n Capitol; the members of the Marshall family who\n attended the dedication of this statue are listed in\n a third article.","Poem written on the request of a lady to inscribe\n his name in her autograph book.","Including TCy of AL. 1 page.","Poem honors the splendid singing voice of Miss\n Eliza Lambert, the sister of Richmond's Mayor William\n Lambert.","Including TCy of AL. 1 page.","Lines on the occasion of\n the raising of the bronze statue of Chief Justice\n Marshall, at Richmond in 1869(?) - while Brig. Gen'l\n Terry was in command of 'District No. 1' -\n which included the state of Virginia.","Discusses tr. Physick's operation on John\n Marshall.","Lists his pall-bearers: Henry St. George Tucker,\n John B. Clapton, \n Benj[amin] W [?]\n Leigh , \n Tho[ma]s\n Rutherford , \n Cha[rle]s\n Copland , \n Rob[er]t\n Popllard , Chapman Johnson, Robert Stanard, [?]\n Scott, and [?] D. Wren[?]; also lists the Marshalls: \n Col. Geo[rge]\n M. Carrington , \n [?] General\n [William] Lambert , General [?] Peyton, and\n Col. Armistead.","Mentions the results of an autopsy on Marshall's\n body after his death in 1835.","Published by the Reformed Church Publication Board\n in Philadelphia. The Centennial Address delivered\n before the Franklin and Marshall College of\n Lancaster, Pennsylvania on 14 June 1887.","Subsequently published by McGraw-Hill in a 1960\n book, \n Fountain of\n Freedom .","The smaller one was copied from French painter\n Levret Saint Memin's 1801 crayon portrait of\n Marshall. The larger lithograph was copied from\n Chester Harding's 1830 painting.","Including a copy of and etching of John Marshall's\n house in Richmond.","The original of the one of Marshall facing right\n was made in Richmond about 1825 by a French artist.\n It was hung at Oak Hill, was inherited by his eldest\n son Thomas Marshall, and is privately owned.","Each was copied from the 1801 portrait of Marshall\n painted by Saint Memin. The large matted one was\n engraved by J. H. E. Whitney.","Two obviously derived from Henry Inman's 1831\n portrait; one engraved by J. A. O'Neil shows Marshall\n in 1793 as the Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of\n Virginia Freemasons; the last includes engravings of\n portraits of other U.S. Chief Justices: John Jay,\n Oliver Ellsworth, John Rutledge, R. B. Taney, M. R.\n Waite, Salmon P. Chase, and Melville W. Fuller.","Including a short history of Federal Hardware and\n Implement Mutual Insurance companies.","It consists of a 26 February 1884 memorial to the\n General Assembly of Virginia, a 25 February letter to\n the Editor of \n The State , and\n handwritten commentary. Ruffin states the reasons why\n he is opposed to passage of the Richmond Dock and Dry\n dock bill."],"separatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBooks owned by John Marshall have been removed from this\n collection. For a more detailed location of these books\n please see the Lion Catalog as well as the Association\n Collection in the Manuscripts and Rare Books Department,\n Swem Library, College of William and Mary.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNewspapers have been transferred from this collection.\n See the Manuscripts and Rare Books Department, Swem\n Library, College of William and Mary.\u003c/p\u003e"],"separatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Separated Materials"],"separatedmaterial_tesim":["Books owned by John Marshall have been removed from this\n collection. For a more detailed location of these books\n please see the Lion Catalog as well as the Association\n Collection in the Manuscripts and Rare Books Department,\n Swem Library, College of William and Mary.","Newspapers have been transferred from this collection.\n See the Manuscripts and Rare Books Department, Swem\n Library, College of William and Mary."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBefore publishing quotations or excerpts from any\n materials, permission must be obtained from the Curator of\n Manuscripts and Rare Books, and the holder of the\n copyright, if not Swem Library.\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Publication Rights/Restrictions on Use"],"userestrict_tesim":["Before publishing quotations or excerpts from any\n materials, permission must be obtained from the Curator of\n Manuscripts and Rare Books, and the holder of the\n copyright, if not Swem Library."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract label=\"Abstract\"\u003eOriginal letters and copies of\n letters from other repositories, chiefly 1788-1835, of John\n Marshall's correspondence with his wife, Mary Willis (Ambler)\n Marshall, and other family members.\u003c/abstract\u003e"],"abstract_tesim":["Original letters and copies of\n letters from other repositories, chiefly 1788-1835, of John\n Marshall's correspondence with his wife, Mary Willis (Ambler)\n Marshall, and other family members."],"names_ssim":["Marshall Family,","Marshall family.","John Marshall,","Mary Willis Ambler Marshall,","James Monroe,","Joseph Story.","Johnson, Herbert A., Charles T.\n Cullen, Nancy G. 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