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Finding aid encoded by Library of Congress Manuscript Division, 2008
Finding aid URL: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms008001
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the Library's online catalog. They are grouped by name of person or organization, by subject or location, and by occupation and listed alphabetically therein.
Most of the items in this collection of the papers of John Marshall, lawyer and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, were donated to the Library of Congress by Mrs. Albert J. Beveridge in 1932 or copied by the Library in that year from papers that she retained. Other items have come to the Library by gift, exchange, and purchase, 1908-1982.
The Albert Jeremiah Beveridge Collection of John Marshall papers was arranged and described in 1979. The finding aid was revised in 1996 and 2008.
The status of copyright in the unpublished writings of John Marshall is governed by the Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, U.S.C.).
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: Container number, Albert Jeremiah Beveridge Collection of John Marshall Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Date | Event |
| 1755, Sept. 24 | Born near Germantown, Va. |
| 1755-1781 | Military service |
| 1780 | Attended law and philosophy lectures at the College of
William and Mary, Williamsburg, Va. Admitted to the bar, Fauquier County, Va. |
| 1782-1784 | Member, Virginia Executive Council |
| 1782-1785 | Member, Virginia House of Delegates |
| 1783 | Married Mary Willis Ambler |
| 1785-1788 | Recorder, city of Richmond, Va. |
| 1787-1788 | Member, Virginia House of Delegates |
| 1796 | Argued case before the Supreme Court |
| 1797-1798 | One of three American envoys to France (XYZ Affair) |
| 1798 | Elected to the House of Representatives |
| 1800-1801 | Secretary of state |
| 1801-1835 | Chief justice of the Supreme Court |
| 1804-1807 | Published The Life of George Washington. London: Printed for R. Phillips |
| 1829 | Member, Virginia Constitutional Convention |
| 1835, July 6 | Died, Philadelphia, Pa. |
The John Marshall collection spans the years 1776-1844, with the bulk of the papers covering the years 1795-1835. The papers consist primarily of photocopies and transcripts of material relating to John Marshall that were accumulated by Albert Jeremiah Beveridge during his research for his four-volume biography of Marshall. They were given to the Library by his wife, Catherine Eddy Beveridge, (chiefly vols. 1-3) or photocopied by the Library from material retained by her (chiefly vols. 4-6). The collection also contains some original manuscripts (ca. 35 items) dated 1787-1835.
The material in the papers covers most aspects of Marshall's public life except his military service. A number of documents, both originals and copies, relate to the XYZ Affair, including a photocopy of Marshall's journal concerning the mission to France. Correspondence in the collection includes letters of advice from Marshall to his fellow Supreme Court justices. Letters to his brother James concern the operation and legal problems of the family plantation. Letters to various notables of the period relate to political activity, and those to Bushrod Washington concern Marshall's The Life of George Washington. Also among the papers are copies of Marshall's account books for the period September 1783-December 1795 and some law notes from his stay at the College of William and Mary in 1780. There is also a series of letters from Marshall's sister-in-law, Elizabeth Jacquelin Ambler Brent Carrington, to various individuals.
Among Marshall's prominent correspondents were Joseph Hopkinson, Henry Lee, James M. Marshall, Timothy Pickering, Joseph Story, Bushrod Washington, George Washington, and Caleb P. Wayne.
Other material relating to John Marshall is in the Manuscript Division's collections of papers of his contempories. Other collections of his papers are available at the Earl Gregg Swem Library, College of William and Mary, and the American Philosophical Society Library, Philadelphia, Pa.
This collection is arranged alphabetically by type of material.
| Container | Contents | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BOX 1 | Bound volumes | ||||||||||||
| BOX 1 | Correspondence, legal papers, and notes | ||||||||||||
| BOX 1 | 1776, July 3-1804, Sept. 3 | ||||||||||||
| BOX 2 | 1804, Sept. 8-1827, Aug. 7 | ||||||||||||
| BOX 3 | 1827, Oct. 6-1844, Nov. 18, n.d. | ||||||||||||
| BOX 4 | Accounts, 1783, Sept.-1792, Dec. | ||||||||||||
| BOX 5 | Accounts, legal accounts (Fairfax v. Hite), and law school notes, 1780-1795 | ||||||||||||
| BOX 6 | Letters of Elizabeth Jacquelin Amber Brent Carrington, 1780-1823 | ||||||||||||
| BOX 7 | Unbound material | ||||||||||||
| BOX 7 | Originals | ||||||||||||
| BOX 7 | General correspondence, 1787-1834 | ||||||||||||
| BOX 7 | Legal material, 1835, n.d. | ||||||||||||
| BOX 7 | Notes, n.d. | ||||||||||||
| BOX 7 | Copies | ||||||||||||
| BOX 7 | Journal, XYZ Affair, 1797-1798 | ||||||||||||
| BOX 7 | General correspondence, 1797-1835 | ||||||||||||
| BOX 7 | Legal material, indenture-deed, 1811, Sept. 23 | ||||||||||||
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