[229] Ib. i, 522.
[230] Gustavus Schmidt in Louisiana Law Journal (1841), i, No. 1, 85-86.
[231] Related to the author by Mr. Sussex D. Davis of the Philadelphia bar.
[232] Related to the author by Thomas Marshall Smith of Baltimore, a descendant of Marshall. Mr. Smith says that this story has been handed down through three generations of his family.
[233] Marshall to his wife, Feb. 14, 1817, MS.
[234] Same to same, Jan. 4, 1823, MS.
[235] For excellent descriptions of Washington society during Marshall's period see the letters of Moss Kent, then a Representative in Congress. These MSS. are in the Library of Congress. Also see Story to his wife, Feb. 7, 1810, Story, i, 196.
[236] Marshall to his wife, Jan. 30, 1831, MS.
[237] This was painted for the Boston Athenæum. See frontispiece in vol. iii. The other portrait by Harding, painted in Richmond (see supra, 76), was given to Story who presented it to the Harvard Law School.
[238] White: Sketch of Chester Harding, 194-96.