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 John Marshall. speak of, if it could be made extensive, might be of great utility, and I would suggest the addition of a resolution not to bring any slave into the country. I am, my dear son, You affectionate father, J. Marshall.

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her husband had been among the injured. He intended leaving Richmond to make his home at Leeds Manor. A little grand daughter sitting by his side one day, when he told her he was coming to live with them, said, with childish delight, for she was devoted to him : " Oh! grandpa, I am so glad you are coming to live with us, you shall have turkey and plum-cake every day for your dinner." " Ah! my dear little girl," was his amused reply, " you will soon kill your poor old grandfather, if you keep him on such a diet as that." Leeds Manor is at the foot of little Cob bler Mountain. In all the world there is no more beautiful spot. My little son owns the following letter which the Chief Jus tice wrote to my father for his eleventh birthday: —

Every year he paid a visit to his sons and his estates in Fauquier County. It was the custom during these visits, for one of his sons to give a dinner, to which all his rela tives in the neighbor hood, and there were a goodly number, were invited to meet him. On one of these occasions the dinner was given at Leeds Manor, the home of my grandfather, his son, James Keith Marshall. Just before the dinner hour there was a violent storm, and lightning struck the house. Several persons were injur ed, one, his grand Washington, daughter, Mary HarMarch 11, 1835. vie, the daughter of My Dear Grandson : his only daughter, a I have received your girl of eighteen, so letter of the 25th of MARY 1SHAM MARSHALL (from an old painting). severely that she was Mother of Chief• Justice Marshall. February, and am not paralyzed all her life, a little gratified at the and a great sufferer. The old judge sat account you give of your standing in your class. It does you great honor as a student to remain calm and cool during the terrible tumult, so long at the head of it. and was uninjured. With his usual thoughtCicero was an elegant scholar, and the greatest fulness, as soon as possible he went to the room where my grandmother, his daughter- orator of his day. Besides his orations he has in-law, lay ill. She told him she had heard written several essays which have attracted much admiration. the noise, but did not know what had been I am very glad to hear of your progress in the cause. In his calm and gentle way arithmetic, and to see that you improve in your he sat down by her, and so entirely re handwriting. Boys are too apt to neglect their assured her, that, not for several hours, handwriting. It is a fault which, I am gald to be when he came in himself to see her, com lieve, you will not commit. You have had a very pletely restored, did she find out that severe winter, but that is not unfavorable to study.