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WE take pleasure in printing the following communication from a great-granddaughter of Chief Justice Marshall, Mrs. Sallie E. Marshall Hardy : "Shortly after Monday, February 4, which was celebrated as John Marshall Day all over the United States, in memory of the great Chief Justice of that name, I went up into Fauquier County, Virginia, where the large tract of land lies which the Chief Justice purchased from the Fairfax heirs, and which was the cause of one of the most celebrated lawsuits ever brought in the United States. "On this land still live a number of John Mar shall's descendants, who hold it as a direct in heritance from him, and Leeds Manor, where I stayed, was his summer home, and in the dining room where I ate hang the portraits of his mother, his wife and himself which I had photo graphed several years ago for THE GREEN BAG. "One day, as we sat at dinner, one of his grandsons told me of this experience he had on February 4. He had gone down from his moun tain home, in response to the invitation he had received as one of John Marshall's descendants, to be present in the House of Representatives. "Shortly after he took his seat a young man came in and took the seat next to him. General Wayne MacVeagh was just beginning his eulogy, which was the speech of the occasion, when the young man began to tell, with a chuckle, how he was in Washington sightseeing and hearing of this ' entertainment ' had come to the Capitol and had outwitted the doorkeeper and found this 'good seat.' "' I don't care a cent about that old duffer, John Marshall,' he continued; 'but I wanted to see the President and other big bugs.' His neighbor listened with patience until he called

his grandfather ' an old duffer ' then he broke forth: "'Now, young man, you keep quiet. I don't care how you got in here, but I wish to hear this speech, and I do care, now that you are in, how you behave yourself; and if you don't stop talking I will have you put out.' The young man saw he meant what he said and quickly subsided." Readers of THE GREEN BAG will call to mind several interesting articles concerning the Chief Justice from Mrs. Hardy's pen. The portraits referred to may be found in Vol. VIII, No. 12, pages 489, 487 and 482, December, 1896, and were reprinted in February and April, 1901.

WE are indebted to the researches of J. L. Campbell, Esq., secretary of Washington and Lee University, for the following information concerning the two Marshall portraits belonging to the University. The portrait reproduced as the frontispiece of our May number was be queathed to the University by Dr. William Newton Mercer, of New Orleans, who died in 1874. The painting was described in his will as "an original by Harding." The other portrait (page 231 of the same number), purchased by the University from Mrs. Anne Jones, Marshall's granddaughter, in 1870, was painted from life, between 1832 and 1834, by William J. Hubard, who was an Englishman by birth, and who married in Virginia. His daughter, now living, is authority for the state ment that he painted, for the State of Virginia, another portrait of Marshall, "almost life-size, sitting in a chair, with manuscript (I think) in hand." This portrait was formerly in the old Court of Appeals room in the Capitol Square at Richmond. Mr. Campbell suggests that this may be one of the two portraits by Hubard referred to by Mr. Justice Bradley (16 Century Magazine 778, note; Sept. 1889); Hubard is there spoken of as a French artist.