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[625] Wayne to Bushrod Was.h.i.+ngton, Nov. 3, 1803, Dreer MSS. _loc. cit._
It would seem from this letter that Marshall and Was.h.i.+ngton had reduced their lump cash price from $100,000 to $70,000. In stating his expenses, Wayne says that the painter ”Gilbert Stuart demanded a handsome sum for the privilege of Engraving from his Original” portrait of Was.h.i.+ngton.
[626] See letter last cited.
[627] Wayne to Bushrod Was.h.i.+ngton, Dec. 16, 1803, Dreer MSS. _loc. cit._
[628] Marshall to Wayne, Dec. 23, 1803, Dreer MSS. _loc. cit._
[629] Marshall to Wayne, Jan. 10, 1804, Dreer MSS. _loc. cit._
[630] Marshall to Bushrod Was.h.i.+ngton, March 25, 1804, Dreer MSS. _loc.
cit._
[631] Same to same, April, 1804, Dreer MSS. _loc. cit._
[632] Same to same, April 29, 1804, Dreer MSS. _loc. cit._
[633] Marshall to Wayne, June 1, 1804, Dreer MSS. _loc. cit._
[634] Same to same, June 6, 1804, Dreer MSS. _loc. cit._
[635] Marshall to Wayne, June 10, July 5, July 8, 1804, Dreer MSS. _loc.
cit._
[636] Wayne to Bushrod Was.h.i.+ngton, Aug. 20, 1804, Dreer MSS. _loc. cit._
[637] Marshall to Wayne, July 20, 1804, Dreer MSS. _loc. cit._
[638] Marshall to Wayne, Aug. 10, 1804, Dreer MSS. _loc. cit._
[639] _Literary Magazine and American Register of Philadelphia_, July, 1804. The reviewer makes many of the criticisms that appeared on the completion of the biography. (See _infra_, 261-79.)
[640] Wayne to Marshall, Aug. 20, 1804, Dreer MSS. _loc. cit._
[641] The affair at Little Meadows and the defeat of Braddock.
(Marshall: _Life of George Was.h.i.+ngton_, 1st ed. I, 356-58, 368-71.)
[642] These were: Belknap, Belsham, Chalmers, Dodsley, Entick or Entinck, Gordon, Hutchinson, Minot, Ramsay, Raynal, Robertson, Russell, Smith, Stedman, St.i.th, Trumbull.
[643] For example, Marshall's description of Sir William Berkeley, who was, the reader is informed, ”distinguished ... by the mildness of his temper, the gentleness of his manners and ... popular virtues.”
(Marshall, 1st ed. I, 72.)
[644] _Ib._ 188-92; and see vol. I, 6, of this work.
[645] _Ib._ 1st ed. I, 86-89.
[646] _Ib._ 111-12.