John Marshall, Richmond, Virginia, to Bushrod Washington, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1819
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- Box 2, Folder 5
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Asks him to purchase books for John Marshall's nephew, Taylor, who is at school in Kentucky; makes arrangements to pay the bookseller and Deiplaine, and to have him send the volumes, including "Terence [sic] Livy in Latin, Longinus, Thucydides, Demosthenes in Greek, also Xenophens retreat of the 10,000" to John Marshall's brother, Doctor Louis Marshall, in Kentucky; discusses dissatisfaction of Virginian politicians with the Supreme Court's opinion on the Bank question; "we shall be denounced bitterly in the papers...and we shall undoubtedly be condemned as a pack of consolidating aristocratics;" mentions unexpected and long unheard of financial distress of Richmond merchants.
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