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Box 2

 Container

Contains 12 Results:

John Marshall, Washington, D.C., to Mary Willis (Ambler) "Polly" Marshall, Richmond, Virginia, 1817 February 14

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 5
Identifier: id161491
Scope and Contents

Discusses the Washington social life; is impressed with the French minister and his wife; William Wirt arrived yesterday but he brought no letters; warns her to take enough blankets to arm herself against the intense cold when she goes to Chickahominy on February 21.

Dates: 1817 February 14
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / John Marshall Papers / Series 1: Correspondence and Papers of John Marshall, Family Members and Other Individuals / Sub-Series 1: Correspondence and Papers of John Marshall / Correspondence and Papers of John Marshall, 1810-1818

James Monroe, Washington D.C., to John Marshall, Washington D.C., 1817 March 1

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 5
Identifier: id163239
Scope and Contents

Asks Marshall to administer the Presidential oath to him.

Dates: 1817 March 1
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / John Marshall Papers / Series 1: Correspondence and Papers of John Marshall, Family Members and Other Individuals / Sub-Series 1: Correspondence and Papers of John Marshall / Correspondence and Papers of John Marshall, 1810-1818

John Marshall, Washington, D.C., to James Monroe, Washington, D.C., 1817 March 1

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 5
Identifier: id163240
Scope and Contents

Agrees to administer the Presidential oath of office to James Monroe. Original is located in the RG 59, National Archives, Washington, D.C.

Dates: 1817 March 1
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / John Marshall Papers / Series 1: Correspondence and Papers of John Marshall, Family Members and Other Individuals / Sub-Series 1: Correspondence and Papers of John Marshall / Correspondence and Papers of John Marshall, 1810-1818

John Marshall, Washington, D.C., to Mary Willis (Ambler) "Polly" Marshall, Richmond, Virginia, 1818 February 16

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 5
Identifier: id163242
Scope and Contents Has read in Jaquelin[Marshall's last letter news of her ill health, and advises her not to expose herself to the cold in her fears of being too warm; he is in good health and is busily employed. Letter on verso from John Marshall, to his son John, discussing farm matters, and asking him to receive the overseer's letter concerning such things as preparing the soil with plaster of paris, grubbing, cutting, and burning; does not want him to send packages by post, but by private conveyance if...
Dates: 1818 February 16
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / John Marshall Papers / Series 1: Correspondence and Papers of John Marshall, Family Members and Other Individuals / Sub-Series 1: Correspondence and Papers of John Marshall / Correspondence and Papers of John Marshall, 1810-1818

Mark L. DesCaves, Baltimore, Maryland, to John Marshall, Richmond, Virginia, ante 1818 March 31

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 5
Identifier: id163243
Scope and Contents 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...
Dates: ante 1818 March 31
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / John Marshall Papers / Series 1: Correspondence and Papers of John Marshall, Family Members and Other Individuals / Sub-Series 1: Correspondence and Papers of John Marshall / Correspondence and Papers of John Marshall, 1810-1818

William Wirt, Washington, D.C., to John Marshall, Washington, D.C., 1818 March

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 5
Identifier: id163244
Scope and Contents

Is unable to accept his invitation to dine with him because of his health.

Dates: 1818 March
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / John Marshall Papers / Series 1: Correspondence and Papers of John Marshall, Family Members and Other Individuals / Sub-Series 1: Correspondence and Papers of John Marshall / Correspondence and Papers of John Marshall, 1810-1818

William Wirt, Washington, D.C., to John Marshall, Washington, D.C., 1818 March

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 5
Identifier: id163245
Scope and Contents

Requests that his case before the Supreme Court be given a day's respite as the extremes of weather have incapacitated him.

Dates: 1818 March
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / John Marshall Papers / Series 1: Correspondence and Papers of John Marshall, Family Members and Other Individuals / Sub-Series 1: Correspondence and Papers of John Marshall / Correspondence and Papers of John Marshall, 1810-1818

John Marshall, Washington, D.C., to Gulian C. Verplanck, New York, 1819 February 27

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 5
Identifier: id163248
Scope and Contents

Has received and finally read the address which he presented to the New York Historical Society; was much pleased with its clarity and lucid arrangement, and feels the public would like to see more from his pen. Original is located in the Hampton L. Carson Collection, Free Library of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Dates: 1819 February 27
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / John Marshall Papers / Series 1: Correspondence and Papers of John Marshall, Family Members and Other Individuals / Sub-Series 1: Correspondence and Papers of John Marshall / Correspondence and Papers

John Marshall, Richmond, Virginia, to Joseph Story, Salem, Massachusetts, 1819 March 24

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 5
Identifier: id163249
Scope and Contents

Asks for information about nail making machines in Boston, for a friend of his who might like to purchase one; the opinion in the Banks case "has roused the sleeping spirit of Virginia" and will be attacked in the papers. Original is located in the Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, Massachusetts.

Dates: 1819 March 24
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / John Marshall Papers / Series 1: Correspondence and Papers of John Marshall, Family Members and Other Individuals / Sub-Series 1: Correspondence and Papers of John Marshall / Correspondence and Papers

John Marshall, Richmond, Virginia, to Bushrod Washington, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1819 March 27

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 5
Identifier: id163250
Scope and Contents 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...
Dates: 1819 March 27
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / John Marshall Papers / Series 1: Correspondence and Papers of John Marshall, Family Members and Other Individuals / Sub-Series 1: Correspondence and Papers of John Marshall / Correspondence and Papers

John Marshall, Richmond, Virginia, to Jaquelin B. Harvie, 1819 March-April

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 5
Identifier: id163251
Scope and Contents

Extracted from a letter of Joseph Story's to John Marshall describing a $1000 nail-making machine invented by Mr. Perkins, and used extensively in the Amesbury Factory near Salem, Massachusetts; also describes two different, less expensive models patented by Mr. Reed, and discusses arrangements for their sale and delivery.

Dates: 1819 March-April
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / John Marshall Papers / Series 1: Correspondence and Papers of John Marshall, Family Members and Other Individuals / Sub-Series 1: Correspondence and Papers of John Marshall / Correspondence and Papers

John Marshall, Richmond, Virginia, to Bushrod Washington, Alexandria, Virginia, 1819 April 28

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 5
Identifier: id163252
Scope and Contents

Discusses an error in his published manuscript of a court decision which John Marshall wishes Mr. Bronson to correct.

Dates: 1819 April 28
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / John Marshall Papers / Series 1: Correspondence and Papers of John Marshall, Family Members and Other Individuals / Sub-Series 1: Correspondence and Papers of John Marshall / Correspondence and Papers