21From James Madison to Hezekiah Niles, 8 January 1822 (Madison Papers)
In Ramsay’s History of the American Revolution Vol: 2. pa. 300–301 is the following passage. “Mr. Jay was instructed to contend for the right of the U. States to the free navigation of the river Mississippi, and if an express acknowlegement of it could not be obtained, he was restrained from acceding to any stipulation by which it should be relinquished. But in February 1781, when Lord...
22James Madison to Hezekiah Niles, 20 June 1829 (Madison Papers)
I have been long a subscriber to your "Register", and retain my respect for its merits, and sincere wishes for its prolonged success; but finding it expedient at the age I have reached, to abridge the attention required for such objects, I must request you to discontinue my name on your Subscription list. According to the account presented lately by your Collector, the balance due from me in...
23Thomas 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...
24Thomas Jefferson to Hezekiah Niles, 9 December 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson incloses to mr Niles a five Dollar bill of the bank of Virginia which he believes pays for the Weekly Register till Sep. 18. of the ensuing year , and salutes him with esteem & respect . PoC ( DLC ); on verso of a reused address cover from James Monroe to TJ; dateline at foot of text; endorsed by TJ as a letter to “Niles Henry” and so recorded (with additional bracketed notation...
25Thomas Jefferson to Hezekiah Niles, 20 April 1821 (SJL description) (Jefferson Papers)
[ Ed. Note : A missing letter to Niles of 20 Apr. 1821 is recorded in SJL with the bracketed notation: “5.D.” In his financial records for that date TJ noted sending Hezekiah Niles “5.D. for a year’s Register” ( MB James A. Bear Jr. and Lucia C. Stanton, eds., Jefferson’s Memorandum Books: Accounts, with Legal Records and Miscellany, 1767–1826 , 1997, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson , Second...
26Thomas Jefferson to Hezekiah Niles, [7 February 1822] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Ed. Note : A letter from TJ to “ Henry ” Niles of 7 Feb. 1822 is recorded in SJL , with the entry for this missive followed by a bracketed “5.” Nine days later TJ recorded the receipt of a reply from Niles , which was written at Baltimore on 12 Feb. A month later, on 12 Mar. 1822 , TJ entered in his column for outgoing letters yet another communication to “ Henry
27From Thomas Jefferson to Hezekiah Niles, 6 May 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
Having been lately engaged in indexing my memorandum book of the last year, I observed your name not to be in it, this first suggests to me that I must have forgotten the annual remittance to you. I therefore now inclose you 10. D. for the past and present dues. my memory fails too much to be depended on; but if you would send a scrip of a note with the paper closing the year, this should not...