1. John Quincy Adams, A Letter to Mr. Harrison Gray Otis, … on the Present State of Our National Affairs, with Remarks upon Mr. T. Pickering’s Letter, to the Governor of the Commonwealth. … With an Appendix, Written July, 1824 (Baltimore, 1824; Shoemaker description begins Richard H. Shoemaker, comp., A Checklist of American Imprints for 1820–1829 (11 vols.; New York, 1964–72). description ends 15026). For a discussion of the context in which this pamphlet was written, see Bemis, John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy, 144–49.

2. Isaac Munroe (ca. 1784–1859) had been co-owner of the Boston Patriot until 1814, when he moved to Baltimore and became publisher of the Baltimore Patriot & Mercantile Advertiser. He edited that paper until a few years before his death. Munroe was a firm supporter of JM’s administrations and served in the Maryland militia during the British attack on Baltimore in 1814 (New York Herald, 25 Dec. 1859; Brigham, American Newspapers description begins Clarence S. Brigham, History and Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690–1820 (2 vols.; Worcester, Mass., 1947). description ends , 1:245, 332; J. Thomas Scharf, History of Baltimore City and County [2 vols.; 1881; reprint, Baltimore, 1971], 2:612).