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- GLC#
- GLC05754.09
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 1801/01/21
- Author/Creator
- Goorich, Elizur, fl. 1799-1809
- Title
- to Stephen Twining re: burning of Teasury, Marshall nominated for Chief Justice
- Place Written
- Washington, District of Columbia
- Pagination
- 3 p. : docket : Height: 24.5 cm, Width: 20.1 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- The Age of Jefferson & Madison
It seems, as tho' Pandora's Box of Mischief was opened upon the United States -- Last evening... the Treasury Department was discovered to be on fire -- The flame caught presumably from the hearth of the Auditors room -- and wrapped up and consumed all his papers." He notes on page 3 before closing: "Mr. Patterson must be mortified by the nomination of Mr. Marshall as Chief Justice."
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