1From Thomas Jefferson to Richard Peters, 30 September 1781 (Jefferson Papers)
Monticello, 30 Sep. 1781 . This letter is identical in substance with TJ’s letter to Thomas McKean, this date. Intended as RC , but not sent ( DLC ); written on a sheet which TJ subsequently used for a summary of the case of King v . Dugard; addressed: “The honourable Richard Peters Philadelphia favored by Mr Short.”
2From Thomas Jefferson to Richard Peters, 26 February 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Octob. 1. covering the letter and bill to Captn. Capitaine did not come to my hands till yesterday. I wrote to him immediately to inform him it should be delivered him at any moment. We talk and think of nothing here but the Assemblée des Notables. Were all the puns collected to which this assembly has given rise , I think they would make a larger volume than the Encyclopedie....
3From Thomas Jefferson to Richard Peters, 13 June 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
The inclosed having by some accident been mislaid among my papers it is not till now that I am able to forward it to you according to the request of the writer. My short stay in Philadelphia, and an untoward accident prevented my having the honor of seeing you there. The invitation which the society of St. Patrick was pleased to honour me with, and which would have procured me a meeting with...
4From Thomas Jefferson to Richard Peters, 30 June 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I should sooner have answered your kind note, my dear Sir, but that I had hoped to meet you the day before yesterday, and to tell you vivâ voce that, even without that, I meant to be troublesome to you in my afternoon excursions: that being the part of the day which business and long habit have allotted to exercise with me. I shall certainly feel often enough the inducements to Belmont, among...
5Thomas Jefferson to Richard Peters, 6 March 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to thank you for the copy of your Discourse on agriculture which you have been so kind as to send me. I participate in all your love for the art, and wish I did also in your skill. but I was never but an amateur, and have been kept from it’s practice until I am too old to learn it. we are indebted to you for much of our knolege as to the use of the plaister, which is become a principal...
6Thomas Jefferson to Richard Peters, 20 February 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson returns his thanks to his friend Judge Peters for mr Biddle ’s instructive and well written Agricultural Address. it came to hand exactly as he was amusing himself with reading the agriculture of the Greeks in their Geoponics . mr Biddle has justly noticed their mass of excellent sense and admirable practice, disfigured by a fantastical mixture of superstician and empiricism,...