The Life of John Marshall Volume IV Part 11

[203] Thomas, born July 21, 1784; Jacquelin Ambler, born December 3, 1787; Mary, born September 17, 1795; John, born January 15, 1798; James Keith, born February 13, 1800; Edward Carrington, born January 13, 1805.

(Paxton: _Marshall Family_, Genealogical Chart.)

[204] Edward Carrington was the only son to receive the degree of A.B.

from Harvard (1826).

[205] Paxton, 100.

[206] Marshall to Story, June 26, 1831, _Proceedings, Ma.s.s. Hist. Soc._ 2d Series, XIV, 344-46.

[207] See vol. I, 55-56, of this work.

[208] Howe (Charleston, S.C., ed. of 1845), 266.

[209] Meade, II, 222.

[210] Tyler: _Tyler_, I, 220; and see vol. II, 182-83, of this work.

[211] White: _A Sketch of Chester Harding, Artist_, 195-96.

[212] _Lippincott's Magazine_, II, 624. Paulding makes this comment on Marshall: "In his hours of relaxation he was as full of fun and as natural as a child. He entered into the spirit of athletic exercises with the ardor of youth; and at sixty-odd years of age was one of the best quoit-players in Virginia." (_Ib._ 626.)

[213] _American Turf Register and Sporting Magazine_ (1829), I, 41-42; and see Mordecai, 188-89.

[214] Recipe for the Quoit Club punch, _Green Bag_, VIII, 482. This recipe was used for many years by the Richmond Light Infantry Blues.

[215] See vol. II, 183, of this work.

[216] On these occasions Mrs. Marshall spent the nights at the house of her daughter or sister.

[217] For an extended description of Marshall's "lawyer dinners" see Terhune, 85-87.

[218] See vol. I, 44-45, 153-54, of this work.

[219] Marshall to Story, Nov. 26, 1826, Story, I, 506.

[220] Story to his wife, Feb. 26, 1832, _ib._ II, 84.

[221] Marshall to Story, Sept. 30, 1829, _Proceedings, Ma.s.s. Hist. Soc._ 2d Series, XIV, 341.

[222] Statement of Miss Elizabeth Marshall of Leeds Manor to the author.

[223] Meade, I, footnote to 99.

[224] _World's Work_, I, 395.

[225] Gustavus Schmidt in _Louisiana Law Journal_ (1841), I, No. 1, 85-86. Mr. Schmidt's description is of Marshall in the court-room at Richmond when holding the United States Circuit Court at that place.

Ticknor, Story, and others show that the same was true in Washington.

[226] Quincy: _Figures of the Past_, 242-43.

[227] Story to Fay, Feb. 25, 1808, Story, I, 166-67.

[228] Story to Martineau, Oct. 8, 1835, Story, II, 205.

[229] _Ib._ I, 522.

[230] Gustavus Schmidt in _Louisiana Law Journal_ (1841), I, No. 1, 85-86.

[231] Related to the author by Mr. Suss.e.x D. Davis of the Philadelphia bar.

[232] Related to the author by Thomas Marshall Smith of Baltimore, a descendant of Marshall. Mr. Smith says that this story has been handed down through three generations of his family.

[233] Marshall to his wife, Feb. 14, 1817, MS.

[234] Same to same, Jan. 4, 1823, MS.

[235] For excellent descriptions of Washington society during Marshall's period see the letters of Moss Kent, then a Representative in Congress.

These MSS. are in the Library of Congress. Also see Story to his wife, Feb. 7, 1810, Story, I, 196.

[236] Marshall to his wife, Jan. 30, 1831, MS.

[237] This was painted for the Boston Athenaeum. See frontispiece in vol.

III. The other portrait by Harding, painted in Richmond (see _supra_, 76), was given to Story who presented it to the Harvard Law School.

[238] White: _Sketch of Chester Harding_, 194-96.

For the Chief Justice to lose or forget articles of clothing was nothing unusual. "He lost a coat, when he dined at the Secretary of the Navy's,"

writes Story who had been making a search for Marshall's missing garment. (Story to Webster, March 18, 1828, Story MSS. Ma.s.s. Hist. Soc.)

[239] Story, II, 504-05.

[240] Story to Williams, Feb. 16, 1812, _ib._ I, 214.

[241] Story to Fay, Feb. 24, 1812, _ib._ 215.

[242] _Ib._

[243] Story to his wife, March 5, 1812, Story, I, 217.

[244] Same to same, March 12, 1812, _ib._ 219.

[245] _Magazine of American History_, XII, 69; and see Quincy: _Figures of the Past_, 189-90. This tale, gathering picturesqueness as it was pa.s.sed by word of mouth during many years, had its variations.

[246] Marshall to Tazewell, Jan. 20, 1827, MS.

[247] Wirt to Delaplaine, Nov. 5, 1818, Kennedy: _Memoirs of the Life of William Wirt_, II, 85.

[248] Bancroft to his wife, Jan. 23, 1832, Howe: _Life and Letters of George Bancroft_, I, 202.