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NEWSPAPER SOURCES

Here is a list of primary source newspaper articles relevant to the opening of the controversy that will enable you to do your own research.

Selected articles from the Recorder are available here on the JHC website and in Rebecca L. McMurry and James F. McMurry, Jr., Jefferson, Callender and the Sally Story: The Scandalmonger and the Newspaper War of 1802 (Toms Brook: Old Virginia Books, 2002).


James Thomson Callender and the Richmond Recorder
September 1, 1802 (McMurry and McMurry 13-25)
September 8, 1802 (McMurry and McMurry 31-34)
September 15, 1802 (McMurry and McMurry 40-42)
September 22, 1802 (McMurry and McMurry 47-51)
September 29, 1802 (McMurry and McMurry 56-58)
October 13, 1802
October 20, 1802
October 27, 1802
November 3, 1802 (McMurry and McMurry 80-82)
November 10, 1802 (McMurry and McMurry 83-85)
November 17, 1802 (McMurry and McMurry 86-92)
December 8, 1802 (McMurry and McMurry 93-96)
December 15, 1802
February 2, 1803
March 19, 1803
May 28, 1803
June 13, 1803 (McMurry and McMurry 98-99)
June 18, 1803

Poems in the Port-Folio
July 10, 1802: "Original Poetry"
October 2, 1802: "A Song, Supposed to Have Been Written by the Sage of Monticello"
October 30, 1802: "Another Imitation of Horace" ("Addressed to a Certain Great Man")
October 30, 1802: "Original Poetry" ("Horace, Book II, Ode 4")
November 6, 1802: "Selected Poetry" ("A Philosophic Love-Song to Sally")
November 13, 1802: "From the Anti-Democrat" ("A New Song, Being a Parody on an Old One")
December 4, 1802: "Original Poetry" ("Phyllis to Demo-Phoon")
December 18, 1802: "The Metamorphosis"
January 22, 1803: "Original Poetry" ("In Thoman, Jen Senem")
March 19, 1803: "Levity" ("A Piece of an Ode to Jefferson")
April 9, 1803: "Black and White"

William Duane and the Philadelphia Aurora
August 4, 1802
August 25, 1802
September 1, 1802 (McMurry and McMurry 27-28)
September 11, 1802 (McMurry and McMurry 37)
September 15, 1802
September 18, 1802

Meriwether Jones and the Richmond Examiner
September 4, 1802
September 22,1802 (McMurry and McMurry 45-46)
September 25,1802 (McMurry and McMurry 53-54)
July 27,1803 (McMurry and McMurry 100-1)

Other
National Intelligencer, [Washington] October 8, 1802 (McMurry and McMurry 62)
Columbian Minerva [Dedham, MA] October 26, 1802 (McMurry and McMurry 76-77)
Turner, Thomas. [Boston] Repertory May 31, 1805 (reprinted Washington Federalist June 19, 1805.) (McMurry and McMurry 107-11)
New York Evening Post, April 5, 1805
"The Monarchy of Federalism," New England Palladium, March 19, 1805