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(SUPREME COURT.) MARSHALL, JOHN. Autograph Letter Signed,
“JMarshall,” to an unnamed recipient (lacking salutation), attesting to worthiness for U.S.
Navy service of Richard Barton. 1 page, 8vo; short closed tears at top and bottom edges,
mounted at corners verso, folds; matted with a portrait and framed.
Np, 16 February 1816
[2,000/3,000]
“
I am very intimately acquainted with the Father of Mr. Richard Barton . . . . He is an appli-
cant for the warrant of midshipman . . . . I have the utmost confidence in his personal merit . . . .
I wish him success.”