[494] Mrs. Carrington to her sister Nancy; Atlantic Monthly, lxxxiv, 547.

[495] Hist. Mag., iii, 167.

[496] Mrs. Carrington to her sister Nancy; Atlantic Monthly, lxxxiv, 547.

[497] Supra, chap. II.

[498] Mrs. Carrington to her sister Nancy; Atlantic Monthly, lxxxiv, 547.

[499] "Notes on Virginia": Jefferson; Works: Ford, iv, 65.

[500] Mrs. Carrington to her sister Nancy; supra. William and Mary was the first American institution of learning to adopt the modern lecture system. (Tyler; Williamsburg, 153.) The lecture method was inaugurated Dec. 29, 1779 (ib., 174-75), only four months before Marshall entered.

[501] John Brown to Wm. Preston, Feb. 15, 1780; W. and M. C. Q., ix, 76.

[502] Mrs. Carrington to her sister Nancy; MS.

[503] See infra.