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 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...
6Thomas 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
7Thomas 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
8Thomas 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...
9Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Ritchie, 8 March 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
About 18. months ago (Sep. 1814) I proposed to you a work on political economy by mr Tracy of Paris , for translation & publication, the original MS. being in my hands unpublished. you could not undertake it till the then ensuing spring, and I thought I ought not to wait so long. after trusting to Duane , and being continually put off, he at length informed me he had got it translated, but had...
10Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Ritchie, 6 April 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I have really placed myself in a very mortifying situation before you with respect to Tracy ’s book. I shall state the case. when I recieved information from mr Duane that he could not print it, mr Millegan of Georgetown happened to be here. I proposed to him to undertake it, and promised, if he would, that I would revise the translation. he agreed to it, and the more readily as he said Duane...
11Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Ritchie, 3 September 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I have just had sight of a statistical document so very curious that I am exceedingly anxious to obtain a copy of it. it is entitled ‘a statement of the revenue tax for the year 1815 arising on lots land and other property’ a two sheet table printed in your office. if you can procure me a copy you will greatly oblige me. Accept assurances of my friendly respect. PoC ( MHi ); on verso of a...