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...
3Thomas Jefferson to Hezekiah Niles, 26 June 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
Having occasion lately to refresh my memory on the case of Henry the British agent , I was referred by the Index of your 2 d volume to page 45. and turning to that part found the N o 29, containing it to be missing. this had escaped me when I wrote my letters both of Oct. 29. 13 and March last, and I suppose it escaped me by my having the Supplement of N o 29. and not observing that it was...
4Hezekiah 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...
5Samuel 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...
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,...
8Thomas Jefferson to Hezekiah Niles, 19 January 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Accept my thanks for the specimen you have been so kind as to send me of the new preparation of mucilaginous substances for clarifying liquors. it is in the neatness of the manner of preparation, and equality of distribution on catgut, I suppose, that what there is of invention in it consists; as the clarifying powers of the mucilages, animal and vegetable, have been always known. I am sorry...
9Hezekiah Niles to Thomas Jefferson, 5 August 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Feeling myself so sensibly the labor of reading & drudgery of answering long letters, I had almost resolved to retain the enclosed—but really & honestly, I know not well how to dispense with it, if I would effect the design p r oposed. opened after being sealed, by HN RC ( DLC ); one word illegible; endorsed by TJ as received 18 19 Aug. 1817 and so recorded in SJL . RC ( ViU: TJP
10Thomas Jefferson to Hezekiah Niles, [23] August 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of July 31. came to hand on the 18 th inst. at this place, very distant from Monticello . I learn from it with real concern that there is danger of a discontinuance of the Weekly Register, for want of due support. I have found it very valuable as a Repertory of documents, original papers & the facts of the day, and for the ease with which the Index enables us to turn to them. these...