1Thomas 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...
2Thomas 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...
3Thomas 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...
4Thomas 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...
5Thomas 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...
6Thomas 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
7From 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...