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Is much honored by his election to the Bunker Hill Monument Association and asks what his membership will entail.

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Has received his letters and documents stating Monroe's claims on the U.S.; expects that Monroe will receive as much as has ever been allowed to others for similar services. Original is located in the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

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Thanks her for her letter recommending Caldwell, but he has already pledged himself to another person seeking office.

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In response to John Marshall's requests in his last letter, John Sergeant is enclosing copies of Mr. Giles' speech found in Dunlap and Claypoole's 16 December 1796 paper and in the Aurora of the 15th sources located at the (?) Library; and germane to his biography of Washington.

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Legal brief of the case of Cooper and Gilliam v. Field et. al, a case involving the illegal sale of escaped salves.

Scope and Contents Thanks him for a copy of John Marshall's history of the English colonies of North America which Joseph Story delivered a few weeks earlier; quotes Lord Kames (?) from his The Gentleman Farmer; "I disregard the present rebellion of our Americans; for they will soon be reduced to obedience;" discusses present westward movement of the American population and predicts a new western confederacy of the movement of the national capital westward in the next generation; comments upon John Marshall's...

Scope and Contents Has read Mr. William Branch Giles's latest article in the Richmond Enquirer on John Quincy Adams, which attributes his John Quincy Adams's "past conversion to Jeffersonism" to "his own personal promotion and aggrandizement;" Giles claims that Adams's message indicated his intentions to introduce unlimited powers into the government, but Pickering disagrees; discusses Adams's policies regarding internal improvements, a national university, and the promotion of agriculture, all of which...

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Left Alexandria for Washington a day early because the weather was good for traveling; he, Bushrod Washington, and Gabriel Duval await the arrival of their brother Justices Joseph Story and Smith Thompson; Judge Johnson went by way of Norfolk and will not arrive till Wednesday or Thursday; Judge Thomas Todd is unable to make the journey; discusses his journey and health: "I am under the persecution of the infuenza;" will open the court and wait on the President tomorrow.

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Discusses his daily routine and his health; Judge Joseph Story arrived today; he was delayed a week in Philadelphia by influenza; discusses a loan of $200 to Thomas Marshall, his son; has received three invitations for dinner parties this week; discusses the gaiety of the Washington social scene; jests about his niece Lucy Fisher marrying Dr. Daniel Norborne Norton and persuading him to run for Congress.

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Marshall's son John passed through the city, but he did not have a chance to see him; was pleased to hear that she was well, expecting "the uncommon warmth of the season had relaxed your system so as to distress your feelings;" he enjoys his usual health; "was at a very great crowd at Mrs. John Quincy Adams'drawing room;" dined yesterday with Mr. John Randolph of Roanoke who is as much engaged in party politics as he has always been.

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John Marshall's son John passed through the city, but he did not have a chance to see him; was pleased to hear that she was well, expecting "the uncommon warmth of the season had relaxed your system so as to distress your feelings;" he enjoys his usual health; "was at a very great crowd at Mrs. John Quincy Adams's drawing room;" dined yesterday with Mr. John Randolph of Roanoke who is as much engaged in party politics as he has always been.