Soldier, state legislator, lawyer, and federalist, 1779-1797. "A generous soul" : To Thomas Posey, September 1, 1779
Raising men and money : To William Pierce, February 12, 1783
Failings of the Virginia Assembly : To Charles Simms, June 22, 1783
Patrick Henry's influence : To James Monroe, December 12, 1783
"The greatest man on earth" : To James Monroe, January 3, 1784
Matrimonial news : To James Monroe, February 24, 1784
"A candidate at the next election" : To James Monroe, April 17, 1784
Reforming the county courts : To Charles Simms, June 16, 1784
British debts and the Confederation : To James Monroe, December 2, 1784
Affairs in Kentucky : To George Muter, January 7, 1785
Shays' Rebellion : To James Wilkinson, January 5, 1787
Kentucky and the Mississippi : To George Muter, February 11, 1787
Relations with Spain : To Arthur Lee, March 5, 1787
Speech in the Virginia Ratifying Convention on the necessity of adopting the Constitution, June 10, 1788
Speech in the Virginia Ratifying Convention on the militia, June 16, 1788
Speech in the Virginia Ratifying Convention on the judiciary, June 20, 1788
Declining a federal appointment : To George Washington, October 14, 1789
"The illiberal use of contracted prejudice" : To Archibald Stuart, ca. December 1789
The Virginia judicial system : To Albert Gallatin, January 3, 1790
Resolutions in support of the Neutrality Proclamation, August 17, 1793
Address in support of the Neutrality Proclamation, August 17, 1793
Aristides No. I, September 8, 1793
Aristides No. II, November 20, 1793
"Folly, envy, malice & damnd rascality" : To Archibald Stuart, March 27, 1794
"Kiss our children" : To Mary W. Marshall, February 3, 1796
Argument in the U.S. Supreme Court in Ware v. Hylton, February 9, 1796
Supporting the Jay Treaty : To Alexander Hamilton, April 25, 1796
Presidential election results : To James Iredell, December 15, 1796
"The two happiest persons on earth" : To Mary W. Marshall, June 24, 1797
Dinner with President Adams : To Mary W. Marshall, July 3, 1797
Preparing to sail overseas : To Mary W. Marshall, July 5, 1797
"This delay is so cruel" : To Mary W. Marshall, July 10, 1797
"Beyond expression impatient" : To Mary W. Marshall, July 11, 1797
Philadelphia theater and fashion : To Mary W. Marshall, July 14, 1797
Onboard ship : To Mary W. Marshall, July 20, 1797.
Diplomat, Congressman, and Secretary of State, 1797-1801. "Sometimes I am melancholy" : To Mary W. Marshall, August 3, 1797
The Hague : To Mary W. Marshall, September 9, 1797
News of Holland and France : To George Washington, September 15, 1797
The first "XYZ" dispatch : To Timothy Pickering, October 22, 1797
Economic conditions in France : To George Washington, October 24, 1797
The second "XYZ" dispatch : To Timothy Pickering, November 8, 1797
"Amusement & dissipation" in Paris : To Mary W. Marshall, November 27, 1797
European developments : To George Washington, March 8, 1798
To citizens of Richmond, August 11, 1798
Public opinion regarding France : To Timothy Pickering, August 11, 1798
"Sweet little Mary" : To Mary W. Marshall, August 18, 1798
To a Freeholder, September 20, 1798
"Serious & alarming" sentiments : To George Washington, January 8, 1799
Debasement by faction : To James M. Marshall, April 3, 1799
Speech in Congress on the case of Thomas Nash, March 7, 1800
Negotiations with Great Britain : To Rufus King, August 23, 1800
Anti-British sentiment : To Rufus King, August 23, 1800
American complaints against Britain : To Rufus King, September 20, 1800
"The strength of Jacobinism" : To Richard Peters, October 30, 1800
Prosecutions under the Sedition Act : To St. George Tucker, November 18, 1800
The Constitution and the common law : To St. George Tucker, November 27, 1800
The election of 1800 : To Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, December 18, 1800
"A choice of evils" : To Edward Carrington, December 28, 1800
Jefferson and Burr : To Alexander Hamilton, January 1, 1801.
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, 1801-1819. Hopes for the judiciary bill : To William Paterson, February 2, 1801
Anticipating Jefferson's administration : To Rufus King, February 26, 1801
"The new order of things begins" : To Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, March 4, 1801
A delay in issuing commissions : To James M. Marshall, March 18, 1801
The judiciary bill of 1802 : To William Paterson, April 6, 1802
Questioning the 1802 judiciary bill : To William Cushing, April 19, 1802
The constitutionality of circuit duty : To William Paterson, April 19, 1802
Opinions regarding circuit duty : To William Paterson, May 3, 1802
The war in the South : To Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, November 21, 1802
Travel misadventures : To Mary W. Marshall, January 2, 1803
Opinion in Marbury v. Madison, February 24, 1803
Editing "The life of George Washington" : To Caleb P. Wayne, January 10, 1804
Preface to The life of George Washington, 1804
The impeachment of Justice Chase : To Samuel Chase, January 23, 1804
Criticisms of "The Life" : To Caleb P. Wayne, July 20, 1804
Publishing difficulties : To Caleb P. Wayne, September 3, 1804
Revising "The Life" : To Caleb P. Wayne, June 27, 1806
Circuit Court opinion in United States v. Burr regarding a motion for a subpoena, June 13, 1807
Legal questions in the Burr case : To William Cushing, June 29, 1807
Circuit Court opinion in United States v. Burr on the law of treason, August 31, 1807
"The most unpleasant case" : To Richard Peters, November 23, 1807
The election of 1808 : To Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, October 19, 1808
Opinion in Fletcher v. Peck, March 16, 1810
The War of 1812 : To Robert Smith, July 27, 1812
Report of the Virginia River Commission, December 26, 1812
Bankruptcy law and the Constitution : To Bushrod Washington, April 19, 1814
"My culpable son" : To an unknown correspondent, April 9, 1815
Sharing agricultural knowledge : To Richard Peters, July 21, 1815
Setting verdicts aside : To Richard Peters, October 12, 1815
Plans for revising "The life" : To Bushrod Washington, September 10, 1816
A nephew's education : To Louis Marshall, December 23, 1816
Reporting Supreme Court decisions : To Dudley Chase, February 7, 1817
Hoping for news from home : To Mary W. Marshall, February 14, 1817
An autobiographical sketch : To Joseph Delaplaine, March 22, 1818
Opinion in Dartmouth College v. Woodward, February 2, 1819
Opinion in McCulloch v. Maryland, March 6, 1819
"Our heretical reasoning" : To Bushrod Washington, March 27, 1819
A friend to the Union no. I, April 24, 1819
A friend to the Union no. II, April 28, 1819
The Dartmouth College and bank cases : To Joseph Story, April 28, 1819
Reprinting "A friend to the Union" : To Bushrod Washington, May 6, 1819
"Prejudice will swallow anything" : To Joseph Story, May 27, 1819
Answering "Hampden" : To Bushrod Washington, June 17, 1819
A friend of the Constitution no. I, June 30, 1819
A friend of the Constitution no. II, July 1, 1819
A friend of the Constitution no. III, July 2, 1819
A friend of the Constitution no. IV, July 3, 1819
A friend of the Constitution no. V, July 5, 1819
A friend of the Constitution no. VI, July 6, 1819
A friend of the Constitution no. VII, July 9, 1819
A friend of the Constitution no. VIII, July 14, 1819
A friend of the Constitution no. IX, July 15, 1819
Amphyction, Hampden, and Hortensius : To Bushrod Washington, August 3, 1819.
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, 1820-1835. Growing wheat : To John Marshall, Jr., July 10, 1820
Upcoming Supreme Court cases : To Bushrod Washington, February 8, 1821
"We dine out too frequently" : To Mary W. Marshall, February 26, 1821
Opinion in Cohens v. Virginia, March 3, 1821
"The champion of dismemberment" : To Joseph Story, June 15, 1821
A son's need for shirts : To Edward C. Marshall, June 24, 1821
Jefferson's criticism of the Court : To Joseph Story, July 13, 1821
"An attack upon the union" : To Joseph Story, September 18, 1821
The Supreme Court and treaties : To James M. Marshall, July 9, 1822
A winter journey to Washington : To Mary W. Marshall, February 14, 1823
Opinion in Johnson v. McIntosh, February 28, 1823
Preparing a second edition of "The life" : To Bushrod Washington, May 3, 1823
Concern about a rumored appointment : To Joseph Story, July 2, 1823
Laws against free black sailors : To Joseph Story, September 26, 1823
"Non est qualis erat" : To Joseph Story, December 9, 1823
Proposals to alter the Supreme Court : To Henry Clay, December 22, 1823
Recalling a courtship : To Mary W. Marshall, February 23, 1824
Opinion in Gibbons v. Ogden, March 2, 1824
"Heaven bless you my dearest" : To Mary W. Marshall, March 23, 1824
Preface to A history of the colonies, 1824
The importance of female education : To Thomas W. White, November 29, 1824
Remembering a ball : To Mary W. Marshall, February 8, 1825
"The right side of seventy" : To Mary W. Marshall, February 12, 1826
"Those who follow us" : To Timothy Pickering, March 20, 1826
Memorandum by Jared Sparks on a conversation with Marshall, April 1, 1826
A libel case : To Joseph Story, May 31, 1826
Anticipating a son's engagement : To Samuel Fay, September 15, 1826
Apologizing for a misunderstanding : To Samuel Fay, October 15, 1826
Reading Jane Austen : To Joseph Story, November 26, 1826
Opinion in Ogden v. Saunders, February 19, 1827
Seeing Washington at a distance : To Timothy Pickering, March 15, 1827
Education and pauperism : To Charles F. Mercer, April 7, 1827
Slavery and colonization : To Marquis de Lafayette, May 2, 1827
An extended autobiographical sketch : To Joseph Story, July 1827
A "flattering biography" : To Joseph Story, December 30, 1827
Internal improvements and the Constitution : To Timothy Pickering, March 18, 1828
Humanity toward Indians : To Joseph Story, October 29, 1828
Electing the Virginia Convention : To John Randolph, December 24, 1828
Awaiting Jackson's inauguration : To Mary W. Marshall, February 1, 1829
"A most busy and crowded day" : To Mary W. Marshall, March 5, 1829
"I love the government" : To Joseph Hopkinson, March 18, 1829
Property and suffrage : To James M. Garnett, May 20, 1829
Accepting a nomination : To Joseph Story, June 11, 1829
Suffrage and representation : To Joseph Story, July 3, 1829
A barking dog : To James Rawlings, July 25, 1829
The Dane professorship : To Joseph Story, September 30, 1829
Speech in the Virginia Constitutional Convention on apportionment, December 4, 1829
Speech in the Virginia Constitutional Convention on the judiciary, December 11, 1829
The birth of a grandson : To Mary W. Marshall, January 31, 1830
"Gay sprightly and gallant" : To Mary W. Marshall, February 14, 1830
Party success and family feuds : To Mary W. Marshall, March 7, 1830
The dangers of presidential elections : To James Hillhouse, May 26, 1830
"Mr. Madison ... is himself again" : To Joseph Story, October 15, 1830
Jefferson and the federalists : To Henry Lee, October 25, 1830
Dining with the French Minister : To Mary W. Marshall, January 30, 1831
Calling on Catharine Sedgwick : To Mary W. Marshall, February 7, 1831
Opinion in Cherokee Nation v. Georgia, March 18, 1831
"The great teacher experience" : To Joseph Story, May 3, 1831
Publishing the Cherokee case : To Richard Peters, May 19, 1831
Remembering a child's death : To Joseph Story, June 26, 1831
"Our tranquil fire side" : To Mary W. Marshall, October 6, 1831
Irresistible pears : To Mary W. Marshall, October 12, 1831
Health concerns : To Joseph Story, October 12, 1831
Recovering from surgery : To Mary W. Marshall, November 8, 1831
"The privations of age" : To Joseph Story, November 10, 1831
Colonizing freed slaves : To Ralph R. Gurley, December 14, 1831
National and state controversies : To Edward C. Marshall, February 15, 1832
Opinion in Worcester v. Georgia, March 3, 1832
From The life of George Washington, second edition, volume I, 1832. Preface ; Chapter VIII ; Chapter IX
Political news and a law library : To Joseph Story, August 2, 1832
"Our Constitution cannot last" : To Joseph Story, September 22, 1832
Jackson's Nullification Proclamation : To Joseph Story, December 25, 1832
Eulogy for Mary Marshall, December 25, 1832
Opinion in Barron v. Baltimore, February 16, 1833
"The heresies of your commentaries" : To Joseph Story, April 24, 1833
The history of the Union : To Humphrey Marshall, May 7, 1833
Christianity and civil government : To Jasper Adams, May 9, 1833
Masonry : To Edward Everett, July 22, 1833
Story's commentaries : To Joseph Story, July 31, 1833
Napoleon Bonaparte : To Henry Lee, September 21, 1833
Plans for a new house : To James K. Marshall, October 14, 1833
The dividing line between parties : To Thomas S. Grimké, October 6, 1834
Virginia politics : To Joseph Story, December 3, 1834
A grandson's education : To John Marshall, Jr., December 7, 1834
Remembering a conversation with Washington : To James K. Paulding, April 4, 1835
"My old worn out frame" : To Richard Peters, April 30, 1835
Plans for the summer : To Thomas P. Devereux, May 30, 1835
