[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.