21Anonymous (Thomas Jefferson) to the Richmond Enquirer, [ca. 29] August 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
In compliance with your desire on my departure for the springs I availed myself of a short stay in Charlottesville to enquire into the plan, the progress and prospects of the Central college , which has been sometimes spoken of in your paper. I will give you the result shortly, & so much only as I get from sources to be relied on. A law , it seems, had been past, authorising a board of...
22From James Madison to Thomas Ritchie, 18 December 1825 (Madison Papers)
Yours of the 10th. inst: was recd. a few days ago & I give it the earliest answer which circumstances have permitted. It has been impossible not to observe the licence of construction applied to the Constitution of the U. States; and that the premises from which powers are inferred, often cover more ground than the inferences themselves. In seeking a remedy for these aberrations, we must not...
23From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Ritchie, 17 June 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you on the 13 th on the subject of my arrearages, on looking into mr Gibson’s acc ts who acted for me till 21, I find a payment of 10.D. for the Enquirer on June 9. 20. so that I suspect I was mistaken in supposing I had written to Col o Peyton to pay for the paper. I presume that on changing my agent in 20. or 21. I omitted to give the general order and that my arrears commence after...
24From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Ritchie, 28 February 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved your favor covering one from a Lottery office offering it’s services for the management of that lately permitted to me. I have for some years been obliged by age and ill health to resign the care of all my affairs to my grandson Th: J. R. who accdly acts for me with full powers in all cases. that of the lottery particularly has been entirely left to him so that I know...
25James Madison to Thomas Ritchie, 24 May 1830 (Madison Papers)
J. Madison with his respects to Mr. R. remarks that a Marginal note in the Enquire[r] of the 18th. infers from the pages of Helvidius, that J.M. solemnly protested agst. the Proclamation of Neutrality," as it has been called. The Protest was not agst. the Proclamation, but agst. the Executive Prerogative, attempted to be engrafted on it in the publication of Pacificus to which that of...
26From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Ritchie, 30 November 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
It has not been in my power till yesterday to get a printed copy of the new edition of our statutes which was necessarily to accompany our Report to the literary fund. all go with the mail, which carries this I wish it were convenient to print these things in 8 vo that they might be bound together when printed send me a copy if you please and accept my friendly respectful salutns MHi .