Description and Scope of John Marshall Webliography
 

• COTTON, JOSEPH P. (ed.) The constitutional decisions of John Marshall. N. Y., Putnam's, 1905. 2 V. A selection of forty-four major "constitutional" decisions, including six which M delivered while on the Circuit Courtin Virginia. See the introductory essay, I, vii-xxxvi, and also the useful prefatory notes outlining the origin of each case, the issues involved in thelitigation, and the effect of the decision. 

• CROSS, Jack. L. (ed.) "John Marshall on the French Revolution and American politics." WMQ (ser. 3), 12 (Oct-1955), 631-49. The source of four letters to the Secretary of State (Timothy Pickering), 1797, and five to Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, 1800-1808

• *Decisoes constitucionaes de Marshall, presidents do Supremo Tribunal dos Estados Unidos da America doNorte, traduzidas por Americo Lobo Rio de Janeiro, Imprensa Nacional, 1903. 432  p. 

• DILLON, JOHN M. (ed.) John Marshall, complete constitutional decisions   . . . with annotations historical,critical and legal. Chicago, Callaghan,1903. 799 P. Includes the text of twenty-nine decisions, some abridged, with a brief introduction and detailed legal postscript to each. 

• ELLIOT,JONATHAN(Ed.) Thedebates in the several state conventions ,on the adoption of the Federal Constitution. Philadelphia,Lippincott,1836-59. 5v. See Vol. III ("Convention of Virginia") for the text of M's speeches and debates in the Convention of 1788.

• ILES, GEORGE (ed.) Little master pieces of autobiography. N. Y., Doubleday, Page, 1908. 6 v. "John Marshall": I, 92-122. Includes the autobiographical letter to Delaplaine, May 22, 1818, as well as the completetext or excerpts of letters to George Washington, John Adams, Joseph Story, and others.

• "LETTERS FROM JOHN MARSHALL TO HIS WIF'E." WMQ (ser. 2), 3 (Apr. 1923),73-90. Includes fourteen letters written between 1797 and 1831.

• [LETTERS OF CHIEF JUSTICE MARSHALL.] MHS Proc (ser. a), 14 (Nov. 1900), 321-60. Contains two letters to Timothy Pickering, I826-7, and twenty-six to Joseph Story, 1819-34.

• "LETTERS OF JOHN MARSHALL WHEN ENVOY TO FRANCE, 1797, 1798." AHR, 2 (Jan. 1897), 294-306. Three letters written to George Washington.

• Memory of Washington, comprising a sketch of his life and character; and the national testimonials of respect.Newport, R. I., Farnsworth, 1800.  246 p. Includes M's "Report of Gen. Washington's death" (Dec. 18, 1799) and his "Second address to Congress" (Dec.19, 1799). 

• MOORE, FRANK (ed.) American eloquence: a collection of speeches and addresses, by the most eminentorators of America. N. Y., Appleton, 1859. 2V. "John Marshall": 11, 7-10. See also text of speeches delivered June 10 and 20, 1788, in the Virginia ConstitutionalConvention, and the"Speech in Robbins case," Mar. 7, 1800, 11, 10-32. 

• OSTER, JOHN E. The political and economic doctrines of John Marshall, who for thirty-four years was Chief Justice of the United States. And  also his letters, speeches, and hitherto unpublished and uncollected writings. N. Y., Neale, 1914. 369 p. An anthology of writings taken, for the most part, from printed sources although twenty-three "new" documents areiincluded. The selection and arrangement is haphazard, the index is poor and the bibliography replete with inaccuracies. A texttaken from a published version will usually reproduce any errors in the original. In lieu of any full or partial collection of M's writings, however, it will remain important if only for the otherwise unpublished letters it contains.

• [PERKINS, JAMES H.] The writings of  John Marshall, late Chief Justice of the United States, upon theFederal Constitution. Boston, Munroe, 1839. 728 p.  A collection of thirty decisions delivered by M, some of which have been abridged. It also includes one dissent (Ogden vs. Saunders) and decisions in ten cases given by other justices.

• VIRGINIA.   CONVIENTION, 1788. Debates and other proceedings . . . Taken in short hand, by David Robertson. 2nd ed. Richmond, Enquirer Press, 1805. 477 p.  See M's speeches and debates, later printed in Elliot. See also Swem 7588-7592a, for other editions of the 1788 debate.

• WARREN, CHARLES. "The Story-Marshall correspondence (1819-1831)." WMQ (ser. 2), 21 (Jan. 1941), 1-26. Excerpts of letters to and from M with descriptive and editorial comment. Reprinted in New York University, School of Law, Anglo-American Legal History Series; ser. 1, no. 7 (1942).