[738] Plumer, March 11, 1808, "Diary," Plumer MSS. Lib. Cong.

[739] May, June, and August numbers, 1808, Monthly Anthology and Boston Review, v, 259, 322, 434. It appears from the minutes of the Anthology Society, publishers of this periodical, that they had a hard time in finding a person willing to review Marshall's five volumes. Three persons were asked to write the critique and declined. Finally, Mr. Thatcher reluctantly agreed to do the work.

[740] Flint, in London Athenæum for 1835, 803.

[741] North American Review, xlvi, 483.

[742] New York Evening Post, as quoted in Allibone: Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors, ii, 1227.

[743] Edinburgh Review, Oct. 1808, as quoted in Randall, ii, footnote to 40.

[744] Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, xvii, 179.

[745] Marshall to Eliot, Sept. 20, 1809, MSS. of the Mass. Hist. Soc.

[746] Marshall to Murphey, Oct. 6, 1827, Papers of Archibald D. Murphey: Hoyt, i, 365-66.

[747] Washington to Wayne, Nov. 26, 1816, Dreer MSS. loc. cit.