Jefferson’s copy, which is not extant, was sent to him by Austin through the Secretary of War.

On June 28, 1803, Jefferson wrote from Washington to Austin: “ I have to acknowledge the reciept, some time ago, of a volume from you, the papers of which I had before read as they appeared under the signature of Old South; and had read with uncommon satisfaction. a sacred devotion to the natural rights of man, and to the principles of representative government which offers the fairest chance of preserving them, with an intrepidity bidding defiance to every thing which was not reason , had already marked the author as one of the valuable advocates of human nature. it is with pleasure I offer my portion of the tribute due for your pure & disinterested exertions in the general behalf, and, with my thanks for the volume sent, I tender you the assurances of my high esteem & respect. ”

To this Austin replied from Boston on July 7: “Your much esteem’d Letter of the 28 ^th ultimo, I acknowledge with every sentiment of respect.--When the Volume, of which you are pleas’d to express your approbation, was sent you, I did not feel myself at liberty to present it with an immediate communication, but requested the Honorable Secretary at War to introduce it to your notice in such a mode as He thought most agreeable . . .

"As you have been pleas’d to read the publications of Old South, I should feel myself under equal obligations, if you would peruse the Examiner in the Chronicle . . .”

The articles contain numerous references to Jefferson and his administration. No. XIII to XVI, pages 58 to 74, are addressed To the Author of “The Jeffersoniad,” in the Centinel; no. XXV, To those whom it may concern, is in defense of Jefferson against the calumnies of the Essex junto; no. XXX is on President Jefferson’s speech; no. XXXII, XXXIII, XXXVII, are largely concerned with Jefferson, and references to him occur in several other numbers.