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Discusses civil admiralty jurisdiction about which he had formed an opinion from the characters in a case of piracy not from precedent; wishes him to discuss revision of "The Life of George Washington" with Mr. Wayne while he is in Philadelphia; explains his ideas for the organization of the work; says it must be prepared at leisure and not offered until there is a demand for it.

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Encloses a memorandum from the Auditors' office concerning William Marshall's lands in Nason and Franklin counties, Kentucky, and a letter which he wishes delivered to his sister Jane (Marshall) Taylor; she desired him to engage a house for her at Fauquier Court House. Encloses a memorandum from the Filson club.

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After reading the recipient's address to the New York Historical Society, he sends him his thoughts on the study of history.

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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.

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Asks Marshall to administer the Presidential oath to him.

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

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...

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...

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

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

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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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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.

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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.

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...

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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.

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

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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...