Albert Jeremiah Beveridge collection of John Marshall papers
Contributors: Marshall, John, 1755-1835
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
Subjects: Correspondence; Politics and government; Plantations; United States. Supreme Court; United States; XYZ Affair, 1797-1798; Constitutional law; Courts; Law; Foreign relations
Description: Primarily material gathered by Beveridge during his research for his four-volume biography, Life of John Marshall (1916-1919).  Chiefly copies of correspondence, a journal, account books, and other documents and papers relating to Marshall's mission to France in the XYZ affair, his five-volume biography of George Washington (1804-1807), the Hite vs. Fairfax case, the U.S. Supreme Court, national politics, and operation of Marshall's Virginia plantation.  Correspondents include Elizabeth Jaquelin Ambler Brent Carrington, Joseph Hopkinson, Henry Lee, James Markham Marshall, Timothy Pickering, Joseph Story, Bushrod Washington, George Washington, and Caleb Parry Wayne.
Notes: Open to research.

Chiefly photocopies and transcripts. [S.l.].

Gift, Mrs. Albert J. Beveridge, 1932.

Gift, exchange, and purchase, 1908-1982.

Albert Jeremiah Beveridge: U.S. senator from Indiana, lawyer, historian, and biographer.  John Marshall: statesman and Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.

Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and on Internet.