adams’s administration: for TJ’s search for John Wood’s History of the Administration of John Adams published in New York in 1802, see Sowerby, description begins E. Millicent Sowerby, comp., Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, Washington, D.C., 1952–59, 5 vols. description ends No. 506, and Vol. 36:228–9, 387, 472–80. news to may last: for TJ’s order on Cheetham for newspapers, see Vol. 37:308.

an antidote: on 9 Aug. 1802, Cheetham issued An Antidote to John Wood’s Poison (New York American Citizen, 9 Aug. 1802; New-York Gazette, 11 Aug. 1802; Kline, Burr description begins Mary-Jo Kline, ed., Political Correspondence and Public Papers of Aaron Burr, Princeton, 1983, 2 vols. description ends , 2:727).

woods illuminati: that is, A Full Exposition of the Clintonian Faction, and the Society of the Columbian Illuminati published in Newark, New Jersey, shortly after An Antidote. Wood attacked Cheetham and derisively associated the Clintonians with the deistic movement and the creation of the Theistical Society of New York (same, 727–8; Sowerby, description begins E. Millicent Sowerby, comp., Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, Washington, D.C., 1952–59, 5 vols. description ends No. 3280).

j.c.s: James Cheetham’s Nine Letters on the Subject of Aaron Burr’s Political Defection, on the election of 1800 (New York, 1803; Sowerby, description begins E. Millicent Sowerby, comp., Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, Washington, D.C., 1952–59, 5 vols. description ends No. 3444; Vol. 38:418n). a letter may refer to A Letter Concerning The Ten Pound Court, in the City of New-York, Addressed to the State Legislature, dated 15 Mch., and published by Denniston & Cheetham. On the title page, Cheetham wrote: “From James Cheetham to His Excellency Thomas Jefferson President of the United States” (see Sowerby, description begins E. Millicent Sowerby, comp., Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, Washington, D.C., 1952–59, 5 vols. description ends No. 3326).