[457] Southern Literary Messenger, ii, 181-91; also Howe, 266. Apparently the older lawyer had been paid the one hundred dollars, for prepayment was customary in Virginia at the time. (See La Rochefoucauld, iii, 76.) This tale, fairly well authenticated, is so characteristic of Marshall that it is important. It visualizes the man as he really was. (See Jefferson's reference, in his letter to Madison, to Marshall's "lax, lounging manners," supra, 139.)
[458] Story, in Dillon, iii, 363.
[459] Wirt: The British Spy, 110-12.
[460] Mazzei's Recherches sur les États-Unis, published in this year (1788) in four volumes.
[461] Marshall himself could not read French at this time. (See infra, chap. vi.)
[462] In this chapter of Marshall's receipts and expenditures all items are from his Account Book, described in vol. i, chap. v, of this work.
[463] Marshall's third child, Mary, was born Sept. 17, of this year.
[464] La Rochefoucauld, iii, 75-76.
[465] Records, Henrico County, Virginia, Deed Book, iii, 74.
[466] In 1911 the City Council of Richmond presented this house to the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities, which now owns and occupies it.