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Discusses constitutional issues involving piracy, the slave trade, and the Supreme Court; mentions Littleton Waller Tazewell.

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Has not formed an opinion of the case which was remanded to the circuit court of Pennsylvania; congratulates him on the prospect of a full docket in New Jersey and upon his empty one in North Carolina; he called on Mr. Blair, the President of the Bible Society, who says Bushrod was a permanent member of the society and in arrears for the years 1816-1819; was frozen on the Rosaline, has scarcely thawed out.

Scope and Contents Hopes none of the papers of George Washington have miscarried; sent the last ones to Bushrod Washington by a coal vessel of Alexandria; has employed a person to copy the pre-Revolutionary letters of General Washington, and John Marshall will himself copy the military letters in his possession after Bushrod Washington informs him in which volume they will be published; he John Marshall will also proceed to copy the letters written between the close of the war and the adoption of the...

Scope and Contents Encloses an affidavit stating that he John Marshall lost the certification meant for Thomas Marshall and asks Bushrod Washington to send from Philadelphia a bond to be executed; has received from Mr. Ward of Salem a copy of a letter written by Mr. William Fairf to Captain Clarke of Salem dated Belvoir, 2 February 1749, which states that "Major Washington [has] just returned from London whither he lately went to get his arrears of pay & be put on the establishment of half pay..."...

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Discusses Mr. Moorehead's purchase of Mr. Johnson's land in Fauquier County; wheat and other crops are doing well. Original is located in the John Marshall House, Richmond, Virginia.

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Describes being thrown by a horse; will bring the letters they agreed to copy to Washington; wishes him to speak again with Mr. Wayne about a second edition of the life of George Washington; recommends that Mr. Mason Locke Weemshave a subscription paper for the letters and life at the same time; thinks they should reduce the charges on the life to half a dollar per volume, then the second volume might be sold for two dollars a volume.

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Discusses the gross misrepresentations the Democratic-Republicans have attributed to the Court's opinion in the Bank case in order to excite ferment in the masses; asks his advice on a case in Admiralty Court, that the Little Charles, libeled for violating the 1808 Embargo Act. Original is located in the Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, Massachusetts.

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If the publication of his John Marshall work has not yet commenced, he would rather have the signature changed to "A Constitutionalist"; the letters of Amphyction and of Hampden have had more influence in the country than in Richmond; hopes some respectable legislators will refute them. Original is located in the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

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Questions Joseph Story about an admiralty case concerning the hypothecation of a vessel belonging to the port of Richmond; discusses legal principles of hypothecation in general in the United States; does not think that a piece in the Boston papers should be republished, Mr. Wheaton's appendix; leaves the opinion in the militia case for Story to write. Original is located in the Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, Massachusetts.

Scope and Contents Discusses the legal principles of hypothecation and maritime law as Joseph Story sees them in regards to a case in New York, and concludes that the chief-question is "whether the ports of the different states are to be deemed foreign ports in respect to the rights of the hypothecation or of implied lien"; in Story's district, as well as in South Carolina, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and New York, they are; Story "is open to argument and will follow in a better path. And as the advancement of the...

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Mentions a trial at Richmond for piracy and discusses the lack of international law regarding the same; writes of his subscription to Mr. Bronson's Gazette of the United Stateswhich has become the Union. Original is located in the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.