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Manuscript, 1839 Box 5, Folder 3

Account of John Marshall's 1831 operation by Doctor Physick written by J. Randolph, M.D. and printed in A Memoir of Dr. Physick. Mentions the results of an autopsy on Marshall's body after his death in 1835. Original is located in the Library of the College of Physicians, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

  1. College of William and Mary
  2. John Marshall Papers, 1755/1835
  3. Series 2: Printed Materials, Poems, and Charts, 1789/1959

Mark L. DesCaves, Baltimore, Maryland, to John Marshall, Richmond, Virginia, 1818 Box 2, Folder 5

Encloses a letter from General Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, which he has been unable to deliver in person, as the General had instructed; saw Judge Bushrod Washington several months earlier, and was informed by him that Mr. Graham returned to Lafayette the General's papers, which Marshall had borrowed. Includes letter, 22 April 1817, from Marquis de Lafayette, La grange, France, to John Marshall, United States, Virginia. Introducing his friend Mark des Caves; praises Marshall's biography of Washington and says that most of his correspondence with Washington was lost during the French Revolution; mentions the copies of Washington's letters to him, which he desires to be returned to him by Bushrod Washington; recommends M. desCaves to him John Marshall.

  1. College of William and Mary
  2. John Marshall Papers, 1755/1835
  3. Series 1: Correspondence and Papers of John Marshall, Family Members and Other Individuals
  4. Sub-Series 1: Correspondence and Papers of John Marshall, 1771/1835
  5. Correspondence and Papers of John Marshall, 1810-1818

Martin Van Buren, Washington, D.C., to John Marshall, Washington, D.C., 1829 Box 4, Folder 1

Will be unable to accept his invitation as he is leaving town on Saturday and will be busy until then.

  1. College of William and Mary
  2. John Marshall Papers, 1755/1835
  3. Series 1: Correspondence and Papers of John Marshall, Family Members and Other Individuals
  4. Sub-Series 1: Correspondence and Papers of John Marshall, 1771/1835
  5. Correspondence and Papers of John Marshall, 1829

Mary Marshall, daughter of John Marshall, Honey Wood, Fauquier County, Virginia, to her mother, Mary Willis (Ambler) Marshall, Richmond, Virginia, 1811 Box 5, Folder 1

Hopes that she will send for her in April, although her Aunt Elizabeth (Marshall) Colston says that it is unlikely; Uncle Rawleigh Colston is upset at all the letters she is sending, and refuses to pay postage on them; wanted to buy muslin in Martinsburg to make her a handkerchief and a cap for her sister; discusses her French lessons with her tutor, Mr. LeRoy, and incidents of his exasperation with Thomas M. Colston, her cousin Thomas Marshall, and her cousin Raleigh T. Colston, Cousin Edward Colston cruelly takes delight in telling her that she will not be able to go home until fall, and "Uncle says he does not think you love me enough to...send for me..."

  1. College of William and Mary
  2. John Marshall Papers, 1755/1835
  3. Series 1: Correspondence and Papers of John Marshall, Family Members and Other Individuals
  4. Sub-Series 2: Correspondence and Papers of Relatives and Descendents of John Marshall, 1797/1916

Mary Willis (Ambler) Marshall's will, 1830 Box 5, Folder 1

2 pages. Autograph Document. Most of her bank stock is to be distributed to her children and their children, although she leaves five bank shares for her "faithful friend and house keeper Mrs. Francis Martyr" and her daughter Anne and ten dollars a year in perpetuity to the school for orphan children established by the Ladies of Richmond. Including Typewritten Copy of Autograph Document. 1 page.

  1. College of William and Mary
  2. John Marshall Papers, 1755/1835
  3. Series 1: Correspondence and Papers of John Marshall, Family Members and Other Individuals
  4. Sub-Series 2: Correspondence and Papers of Relatives and Descendents of John Marshall, 1797/1916

Memorial to Mary Willis Marshall, 1832 Box 4, Folder 4

Memorial written by John Marshall to his wife Mary Willis (Ambler) Marshall on the first anniversary of her death in which he quotes a poetic lament written by General John Burgoyne. Original is located in the John Marshall House, Richmond, Virginia.

  1. College of William and Mary
  2. John Marshall Papers, 1755/1835
  3. Series 1: Correspondence and Papers of John Marshall, Family Members and Other Individuals
  4. Sub-Series 1: Correspondence and Papers of John Marshall, 1771/1835
  5. Correspondence and Papers, 1832/1835

Mrs. Eliza J. (Ambler) Brent Carrington, Mount Vernon, Virginia, to Mrs. Nancy (Ambler) Fisher, 1797 Box 5, Folder 1

Both are sisters of John Marshall's wife, Mary Willis (Ambler) Marshall. Eliza Discusses her and her husband Colonel Edward Carrington's, visit with the Washington family at Mount Vernon and the impending delivery of Mrs. L. Custis Lewis's first child; describes their visit to the new national capitol on the Potomac; writes of their return to Mount Vernon and of their diversions there, which include hunting deer and taking care of the new baby, or "the pretty little stranger"; describes a chambermaid and other servants; comments upon domestic fashions and describes the furnishings of the mansion, which concludes with a description of the estate with its greenhouse and gardens, and of their host George Washington's treatment of his many visitors.

  1. College of William and Mary
  2. John Marshall Papers, 1755/1835
  3. Series 1: Correspondence and Papers of John Marshall, Family Members and Other Individuals
  4. Sub-Series 2: Correspondence and Papers of Relatives and Descendents of John Marshall, 1797/1916

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