[593] See _infra_; also vol. II, 211, of this work.
[594] Marshall to James M. Marshall, April 1, 1804. MS.
[595] Marshall to Peters, Oct. 12, 1815, Peters MSS. Pa. Hist. Soc.
[596] Several persons were ambitious to write the life of Washington. David Ramsay and Mason Locke Weems had already done so. Noah Webster was especially keen to undertake the task, and it was unfortunate that he was not chosen to do it.
[597] Washington to Wayne, April 11, 1800, Dreer MSS. Pa. Hist. Soc.
[599] Bushrod Washington to Wayne, Dec. 11, 1801, Dreer MSS. _loc. cit._
[600] Wayne to Bushrod Washington, Dec. 10, 1801, Dreer MSS. _loc. cit._
[601] Bushrod Washington to Wayne, Dec. 11, 1801, Dreer MSS. _loc. cit._
[602] The division was to be equal between Marshall and Washington.
[603] Bushrod Washington to Wayne, Dec. 11, 1801, Dreer MSS. _loc. cit._
[604] "Articles of Agreement" between C. P. Wayne and Bushrod Washington, Sept. 22, 1802. (Dreer MSS. _loc. cit._) Marshall's name does not appear in the contract, Washington having attended to all purely business details of the transaction.
[605] Wayne to Bushrod Washington, May 16, 1802, Dreer MSS. _loc. cit._
[606] Jefferson to Barlow, May 3, 1802, _Works_: Ford, IX, 372.
[607] The "Anas," _Works_: Ford, I, 163-430, see _infra_. The "Anas" was Jefferson's posthumous defense. It was arranged for publication as early as 1818, but was not given to the public until after his death. It first appeared in the edition of Jefferson's works edited by his grandson, Thomas Jefferson Randolph. "It is the most precious mélange of all sorts of scandals you ever read." (Story to Fay, Feb. 5, 1830, Story, II, 33.)
[608] Bushrod Washington to Wayne, Nov. 19, 1802, Dreer MSS. _loc. cit._
[609] Wayne to Marshall, Feb. 17, 1803, Dreer MSS. _loc. cit._
[610] Weems is one of the most entertaining characters in American history. He was born in Maryland, and was one of a family of nineteen children. He was educated in London as a physician, but abandoned medicine for the Church, and served for several years as rector of two or three little Episcopal churches in Maryland and ministered occasionally at Pohick Church, in Truro Parish (sometimes called Mount Vernon Parish), Virginia. In this devout occupation he could not earn enough to support his very large family. So he became a professional book agent--the greatest, perhaps, of that useful fraternity.