1Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Ritchie, 22 May 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his friendly salutations & compliments to mr Ritchie, and observes to him that he has not recieved a single Enquirer since he came home the 15 th of March , which makes him apprehend that some circumstance consequent on his change of residence may have occasioned the failure. he has taken for granted that mr Ritchie would call on his correspondent mr G. Jefferson...
2Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Ritchie, 19 January 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson returns mr Ritchie thanks for the copy of mr Wood’s New theory of the rotation of the earth which he has safely recieved. he thinks he was indebted to mr Ritchie some time ago for a copy of Peter Plimley’s letters also, and that he has failed to make his acknolegements for it. he begs him now to recieve them, and to assure him that he has rarely met with such a treat. he...
3Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Ritchie, 15 March 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
The author of the inclosed having expressed a wish to Th: Jefferson that it might appear in our Southern papers, he sends it to mr Ritchie to give it a place in his columns or not, as he shall think it deserves; Th:J. being unacquainted with the author & taking no interest in his proposed publication. he presents to mr Ritchie his salutations & assurances of great esteem & respect. PoC ( MHi...
4Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Ritchie, 19 September 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
The inclosed biographical Notice of our late minister mr Barlow was prepared for some of the public papers of Europe , and has been forwarded to me by one of it’s authors . you will see subscribed to it as much of their names as they chuse to communicate. I inclose it to you supposing it possible you might think it worthy of translation and of publication in your paper. when done with I shall...
5Thomas Ritchie to Thomas Jefferson, 9 August 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
In ransacking some Papers, which I had laid by, I lit upon the enclosed Paper, which you were so kind as to transmit to me, some time last year. I am sorry I have detained it so long. However I flatter myself that this Sin of Omission is not so great as to cut me off from the Grace of similar favours. Most Respectfully, RC ( MHi ); dateline at foot of text; endorsed by TJ as received 16 Aug....
6Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Ritchie, 15 August 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
It is probable that a mr Clopper of Maryland is now in Richmond exhibiting a loom of the most beautiful invention imaginable. nobody was more pleased than myself with it’s construction, when shewn here, and I was willing to have procured one of them altho’ at a price which I deemed exorbitant. while it was here I recieved a letter from D r Maese of Philadelphia , informing me that one of these...
7Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Ritchie, 27 September 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
In a letter of Aug. 19 . I proposed to you to published publish the tran s lation of an inedited work of M r Tracy , to which I will ask the favor of an answer, as, if you cannot do it, I must engage some other. I wi ll also ask the return of two letters from D r Maese of Philadelphia
8Thomas Ritchie to Thomas Jefferson, 9 October 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor to enclose you the letters of D r Mease & M r Greer , which you were so kind as to forward me some time since. The interest excited by the fall of Washington , the events which have since transpired, and the military duresse to which I have been subjected, have drawn off my attention too much from other objects. Let this plead my Apology for the delay! These letters have...
9Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Ritchie, 20 October 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson asks the favor of mr Ritchie to insert in his paper the underwritten Notice as often as the rules of the assembly require it to be done; and to place the cost in Th:J ’s account for newspapers which mr Ritchie recieves at such epochs as he pleases from mr Gibson . it is on behalf of a friend who is not in the way to have it done for himself. he salutes
10Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Ritchie, 21 January 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
In answering the letter of a Northern correspondent lately, I indulged in a tirade against a pamphlet recently published in his quarter. on revising my letter however, I thought it unsafe to commit my self so far to a stranger. I struck out the passage therefore, yet I think the pamphlet of such a character as ought not to be unknown, or unnoticed by the people of the United States . it is the...