1. As Belknap notes, the extract that AA had sent of TBA’s 4 March letter to JA was broken into two parts and published in the Boston Russell’s Gazette, 14 June, and the Boston Columbian Centinel, 16 June.

2. Gen. John Skey Eustace, a frequent political agitator, was arrested in the Netherlands in 1794 and then expelled from France and England in 1797. William Vans Murray wrote to Timothy Pickering on 8 March 1798 (MHi:Pickering Papers) that Eustace planned to renounce his American citizenship but changed his mind after reading Robert Goodloe Harper’s Observations on the Dispute between the United States and France, Phila., 1797, Evans, description begins Charles Evans and others, American Bibliography: A Chronological Dictionary of All Books, Pamphlets and Periodical Publications Printed in the United States of America [1639–1800], Chicago and Worcester, Mass., 1903–1959; 14 vols.; rev. edn., www.readex.com. description ends No. 32226, for which see vol. 12:257. In her reply to Belknap of 25 June (MHi:Jeremy Belknap Papers), AA explained that Eustace had been arrested again in the Netherlands and ordered to leave the country. He arrived in New York on 30 May. AA further reported that Murray had written in support of Eustace as a “man of tallents & much general information,” but AA thought he might be “classd, in the List of Adventurers” (vol. 10:402; Madison, Papers, Congressional Series description begins The Papers of James Madison: Congressional Series, ed. William T. Hutchinson, William M. E. Rachal, and Robert Allen Rutland, Chicago and Charlottesville, Va., 1962–1991; 17 vols. description ends , 17:182–183; Hamilton, Papers description begins The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, ed. Harold C. Syrett, Jacob E. Cooke, and others, New York, 1961–1987; 27 vols. description ends , 22:213; New York Argus, 1 June).

3. A Collection of the State Papers of John Thurloe … Containing Authentic Memorials of the English Affairs from the Year 1638, to the Restoration of King Charles II, 7 vols., London, 1742. In her letter of 25 June, AA reported to Belknap that JA did not own a copy of the work (MHi:Jeremy Belknap Papers).

4. This was probably Belknap’s youngest son, Andrew Eliot (1779–1858), who had just turned nineteen. He served as supercargo on the schooner Samuel, Capt. Williams, in 1801, and became a prominent merchant in Boston during the nineteenth century (Kirsch, Jeremy Belknap description begins George B. Kirsch, Jeremy Belknap, New York, 1982. description ends , p. 11; Boston Independent Chronicle, 13–16 April 1801; Boston Weekly Messenger, 27 Jan. 1858).

5. On 18 June 1798 AA wrote a short letter to Belknap (NhD:Ticknor Autograph Coll.) enclosing two pamphlets: John Dennis, An Address to the People of Maryland, Phila., 1798, Evans, description begins Charles Evans and others, American Bibliography: A Chronological Dictionary of All Books, Pamphlets and Periodical Publications Printed in the United States of America [1639–1800], Chicago and Worcester, Mass., 1903–1959; 14 vols.; rev. edn., www.readex.com. description ends No. 33626, and Anthony Aufrere, The Cannibals’ Progress; or, The Dreadful Horrors of French Invasion, Phila., 1798, Evans, description begins Charles Evans and others, American Bibliography: A Chronological Dictionary of All Books, Pamphlets and Periodical Publications Printed in the United States of America [1639–1800], Chicago and Worcester, Mass., 1903–1959; 14 vols.; rev. edn., www.readex.com. description ends No. 33334.