[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.