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Rh Kent, John J. Crittenden, Martin Van Buren, Andrew Jackson, John McLean, John M. Clayton, Daniel Webster, Gideon Granger, Francis Granger, Thuriow Weed, Benjamin R. Curtis, and Franklin Pierce (in the Library of Congress) ; James Wilson, Richard Peters, and John Sergeant (in the Library of the His- torical Society of Pennsylvania) ; papers of Joseph Story and Timothy Pickering (in the Massachusetts Historical Society) ; papers of William Paterson (George Bancroft copies) (in the New York Public Library) ; and papers of Charles Sumner (in the Harvard College Library).

I cannot expect entire freedom from mistakes in a book containing such a mass of detail and citation; but I indulge in the hope that the reader, overlooking errors which "like straws upon the surface float", will emerge from the depths, bringing with him a new and enlarged conception of the Supreme Court's place in American history.

Charles Warren.

Washington, D. C.

March 1922