MS (MHi); entirely in TJ’s hand; endorsed by TJ on verso: “Newspapers.”

Massachusetts Republican congressman Joseph B. VARNUM had subscribed on TJ’s behalf since 1797 to the semiweekly Independent Chronicle, a major source of Jeffersonian news in New England. TJ also subscribed for two years to the Republican semiweekly, Constitutional Telegraphe, published in Boston in 1802 by John S. Lillie (MB description begins James A. Bear, Jr., and Lucia C. Stanton, eds., Jefferson’s Memorandum Books: Accounts, with Legal Records and Miscellany, 1767–1826, Princeton, 1997, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Second Series description ends , 2:964, 976, 1017, 1035).

Gideon GRANGER subscribed on TJ’s behalf in 1800, 1802, and 1804 to the Hartford, Connecticut, Republican weekly American Mercury published by Elisha Babcock (same, 2:1015, 1123).

ALBANY REGISTER: TJ had been a subscriber to John Barber’s semiweekly Republican newspaper since at least 1800 (same, 2:1123).

For POULSON and his American Daily Advertiser, see TJ’s account with Zachariah Poulson, 12 Mch. 1802.

Alexander MARTIN established the Baltimore American, a Republican daily newspaper in 1799. On 9 Apr. 1802, TJ gave an order on John Barnes for $14 for a two-year subscription dating from 24 Mch. 1801 (MB description begins James A. Bear, Jr., and Lucia C. Stanton, eds., Jefferson’s Memorandum Books: Accounts, with Legal Records and Miscellany, 1767–1826, Princeton, 1997, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Second Series description ends , 2:1070).

Samuel Harrison SMITH published a weekly version of the National Intelligencer in Washington, D.C., entitled the Universal Gazette (Brigham, American Newspapers description begins Clarence S. Brigham, History and Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690–1820, Worcester, Mass., 1947, 2 vols. description ends , 1:106–7; Vol. 34:529).

William DUANE, editor of the Philadelphia Aurora, established in May 1802 the Apollo, a short-lived Washington newspaper that was intended as a daily or triweekly. It failed, presumably for lack of subscribers (Brigham, American Newspapers description begins Clarence S. Brigham, History and Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690–1820, Worcester, Mass., 1947, 2 vols. description ends , 1:98–9; 2:891–2).

James LYON and Richard Dinmore published the American Literary Advertiser, a Washington-based weekly established by the Franklin Press in March 1802 (same, 1:98; Vol. 34:405).

North Carolina Congressman Nathaniel MACON carried TJ’s subscription money for the Raleigh Register, published by Joseph Gales (MB description begins James A. Bear, Jr., and Lucia C. Stanton, eds., Jefferson’s Memorandum Books: Accounts, with Legal Records and Miscellany, 1767–1826, Princeton, 1997, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Second Series description ends , 2:1019).

Senator JOHN BROWN of Kentucky subscribed for TJ to the Palladium: A Literary and Political Weekly Repository published at Frankfort (same, 2:1018, 1035).