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Memorandum of Tasks for James Dinsmore, 24 September 1804

Memorandum of Tasks for
James Dinsmore

work to be done by mr Dinsmore.

  finish the Dome room.
  double the door of the cellar under the tea-room.
  do the gutturs of the house with sheet iron.1
h  hang the sashes of all the windows.
  a.  finish <base & caps & architraves of> Hall & parlour2
  put up the Venetian blinds from Washington
  a.  remodel the 2. pr sash doors of the parlour.3 the outer new folding doors to be made of pine, the partition do. of mahogany
h  put up the outerfold of all the window shutters that they may be ready for the painter.
  a.  put up the ballustrade of the gallery in the hall.
  b.  do the stairs & staircases.
  e.  base & Cape of the Dome external
d  Ballustrade on the roof of the house4
  c.  build the S.W. Portico.
  Parlour5 & Hall floors6
f.  entablature of N.W. piazza
g.  N.W. Pavilion.7 externl & internl
Chinese railing on terras of house
green house.

Th:J. Sep. 24. 04.

MS (MHi); entirely in TJ’s hand; Nichols, Architectural Drawings description begins Frederick Doveton Nichols, Thomas Jefferson’s Architectural Drawings, Compiled and with Commentary and a Check List, Charlottesville, 1978 description ends , No. 147n. MS (same); on verso of Memorandum of Tasks for John Hemings, [24 Sep.]; entirely in TJ’s hand, including signature by initials and date of 24 Sep. 1804; probably an earlier state of the list (see notes below); Nichols, Architectural Drawings description begins Frederick Doveton Nichols, Thomas Jefferson’s Architectural Drawings, Compiled and with Commentary and a Check List, Charlottesville, 1978 description ends , No. 147l. MS (same); entirely in TJ’s hand, unsigned and undated; at head of text: “Dinsmore”; on same sheet and written alongside a version of the list of tasks for Hemings; with brief entries, perhaps constituting the earliest extant state of the memorandum; includes an entry for “gutters of the offices”; Nichols, Architectural Drawings description begins Frederick Doveton Nichols, Thomas Jefferson’s Architectural Drawings, Compiled and with Commentary and a Check List, Charlottesville, 1978 description ends , No. 147m.

1In Nichols No. 147l MS, this line appears below “finish the Dome room,” suggesting that TJ intended “do” (for “ditto”) to stand in for “finish.”

2TJ added a check mark above this word. Nichols No. 147l MS: “finish base, cap, architraves & floors of the Hall & Parlour.”

3Nichols No. 147l MS continues, following a comma, “so that either the sash or panelled door may be shut.”

4Remainder of list not in Nichols No. 147l MS.

5TJ added a check mark above this word.

6Remainder of list not in Nichols No. 147m MS.

7Word interlined in place of “Outchamber.”

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