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Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on Household Consumption, [ca. 16 October 1814]

Notes on Household Consumption

[ca. 16 Oct. 1814]

estimate
 1.℔. coffee } daily. 1.℔ tea in 3. weeks.
 1.℔ wh. sugar
 2.℔ brown do
  coffee wh. sug. brown do tea brandy whiskey Cotton
1813. Jan. 29.  10.    20      
Feb. 3     30 ℔    2 lb.    
18   25  15¼  26  2    
Apr. 3.  15  20.  30  2    
19         2    
20   15  20  30      
June 14     25  50  2    
July 1.    25  50  2    
21     25  50  2    
26       25      
31       25      
Aug. 3      121        
4     24        
17   4½    280      
18   25.          
Sep. 15         2    
Oct 1         2    
16           1. canteen  
Dec. 18   25  2 loaves    2    
1814. Jan. 3     2 loaves    2    
6           1 canteen  
18     2 loaves        
 
Feb. 18     2 loave    2    
28   20.          1. cant.2
Mar. 9           2 canteens  
10     2.    2    
19        15.3      
Apr. 1     2  50      
May 6.      20  2    
9.  30  4.        
July      2. loaves    2    
Aug.       2. loaves4  50.        50.℔
Oct. 5.       155      
16   25   46 loaves    27    

MS (MHi); written entirely in TJ’s hand on one side of a single sheet; undated. An image of this manuscript is reproduced elsewhere in this volume.

1. Reworked from “24.”

2. Preceding two words repeated but canceled in preceding column.

3. Reworked from “30.”

4. Preceding two words written over “50 lb,” erased.

5. Reworked from “150.”

6. Reworked from “2.”

7. TJ deleted “50” from the preceding column.

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Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on Household Consumption, [ca. 16 October 1814]
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Jefferson, Thomas
Date
January 1813 – October 1814

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“Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on Household Consumption, [ca. 16 October 1814],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-08-02-0023. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, vol. 8, 1 October 1814 to 31 August 1815, ed. J. Jefferson Looney. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011, pp. 30–31.]