1Baltimore Tammany Society to Thomas Jefferson, 1 May 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
The retirement of a citizen from Public life, who has possessed as long as you have, the voluntary & unlimited confidence of a free & enlightened people, excites reflections the most gratifying to the friends of humanity & the advocates of Republican Government. In beholding the cheerful and spontaneous, abdication of the first office of State, by one neither iritated by disappointment,...
2Hezekiah Niles to Thomas Jefferson, 1 October 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
[ Ed. Note : In SJL on 6 Oct. 1811 TJ recorded receipt of a letter written five days earlier in Baltimore by “R. Niles.” TJ’s reply to Niles of 14 Oct. 1811 is also recorded in SJL . While neither of these letters has come to light, their contents can be conjectured. On 29 Oct. 1813 TJ sent Hezekiah Niles, the editor of the Baltimore Weekly Register , $15 for a “3. years subscription” to his...
3Hezekiah Niles to Thomas Jefferson, 30 June 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
The president ’s messa ge communicating the disclosures of Henry was printed in no 28, page 19, vol 2, of the Reg. But I take pleasure to enclose no 29, which is missing . RC ( DLC ); mutilated at fold; endorsed by TJ as received 5 July 1815. Enclosure: Baltimore Weekly Register 2, no. 29 (21 Mar. 1812). The Baltimore Weekly Register 2, no. 28 (14 Mar. 1812), devoted most of its space to the...
4Samuel Butler (for Hezekiah Niles) to Thomas Jefferson, 11 September 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
On the rec t of your very polite and friendly favor of 7 h Sep t I had a serch made into my last years books and old letters—and have the mortification to state, that you made a remittance, as you mention, in march last of Ten dollars which through hurry of business had been neglectted to be passed to your credit, and which with the Five in your last letter pays your subscription up to...
5To John Adams from Hezekiah Niles, 23 December 1816 (Adams Papers)
As editor of the Weekly Register (a work that I am flattered with a belief has effected a good deal, of his building up a national character for his country, of which you may have heard) I have been loudly called upon to collect & preserve in an extra volume, a body of the speeches, & neglected or almost forgotten public papers of the times of the revolution—to give to an admiring posterity...
6Hezekiah Niles to Thomas Jefferson, 23 December 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
you may have observed a proposition of a correspondent , publïshed in the Weekly Register of the 23rd ult. as to a collection of Speeches, &c. belonging to the period of our revolution. I have reason to believe it comes from one of the first men of our country, & it has excited no little attention. Be pleased to refer to it. The collection being So loudly called for, I shall attempt to make...
7Hezekiah Niles to Thomas Jefferson, 24 December 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Assured that it will afford you pleasure to notice any improvement in what, perhaps, may be called the household arts , I enclose a small piece of a preparation just offered for sale in our city for the purpose of clarifying coffee, as well as wines & other liquors. I have tried it for the former, And it completely answers the purpose—a piece an inch square is the quantity for a gallon,...